Posted on 04/18/2025 5:40:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
To hell with SAFETY, we got to get those weapons to Ukraine to fight the Ruzzians!!!!
(I’ll give DEI a pass on this one as it’s likely that defense plants are no longer under DEI orders, due to the higher priority of the war against Ruzzia)
This is no small explosion. Sabotage or incompetence? Either way it’s a bad thing.
It’s going to be an interesting summer....
Nothing to see here. Please move along.
Nothing, except a pile scrap metal..........
WOW
Oh please, look how many times Spacex has crashed and burned. It’s part of the process.
Build back better?
It was a storage building. The stuff used in SRB is sensitive to electrical discharge.
So I asked Grok because I never heard the term. A Solid Rocket Motor isn’t a motor at all. It is just a solid block of chemicals that burn consistently, the exhaust propelling the craft in (or to) space. I’m curious how one turns it off, or reignites it. Sounds like interesting work. Sorry about the building.
Once it’s lit, it doesn’t stop until all the fuel is gone.
Hadn’t read far enough so it didn’t occur to me. I assumed a SRM was space related, but I guess it could be a miltary use rocket here on earth. I know they use chemicals as fuel for missiles and for space launches. Never thought whether they were solid, liquid or gas mixtures.
Appears they were working on an order for Wile E Coyote, but didn’t quite get the order shipped.
You don’t ‘turn it off’.
It’s like a giant ROMAN CANDLE.
Once it’s lit, you must commit..............................
” A Solid Rocket Motor isn’t a motor at all. It is just a solid block of chemicals that burn consistently, the exhaust propelling the craft in (or to) space”
Much like model rockets have always been propelled.
As far as “turning it off or reigniting it” you don’t.....it burns until all solid fuel is exhausted.....a solid Rocket Motor is a one shot deal.
I don’t know for sure, but it only makes sense that a who bunch of military missiles would use solid rockets...and I do know for sure that the people in those plants are working a vicious amount of overtime, if not for directly supplying Ukraine, then for resupplying our nearly-depleted arsenals.
That’ll buff right out….
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