Posted on 07/03/2013 4:13:24 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The most plausible missile theory I had seen involved speculation that the Navy was conducting tests using an advanced missile that was designed to track a target through the sky using the target’s own radio signals, rather than a heat signature from the engines. This type of missile doesn’t destroy a target by striking it directly like a heat-seeking missile does ... rather, it is similar to an old-fashioned flak burst from an anti-aircraft gun. The missile carries a small warhead that explodes in close proximity to the target, sending out a burst of “shrapnel” made of tiny fragments of a very heavy metal (tungsten carbide, for example) that shreds the skin of the aircraft and destroys any of the mechanical systems located in the body of the aircraft near the blast.
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