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To: Yasotay
I was a participant of a particular ICBM missile test. It went off course at launch. The self-destruct sequence didn't, and the missile continued. It corrected it course and hit target.
65 posted on 05/17/2003 6:25:53 PM PDT by PatrioticAmerican (If the 2nd is for hunting, is the 1st only for writing about hunting?)
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To: PatrioticAmerican
I bet that was an interesting 15 - 30 minutes. In my case, the TOW's launch motor cut the wire and the missile went crazy ..... and the flight motor took it somewhere ...
99 posted on 05/17/2003 8:26:56 PM PDT by Yasotay
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