To: Yasotay
It sounds like a "Blue Spear", a training round. By itself, it is NO big deal ....It is good to hear from someone with actual experience that can comment on this. When you say "NO big deal" can you give us your take on what might happen if a missile like this, sans live warhead, were to be accidentally fired inside a building? Could it do as much damage as an acetylene tank with a broken neck? Or would it just sit there and fizzle like a 4th of July sparkler?
To: TigersEye
You have a launch motor and a flight motor with fuel ... with the TOW you keep a large area, to the rear, clear for the back blast. I have never seen an acetylene tank go off but I would think that a blue spear accidently going off would be worse then that ...
50 posted on
09/27/2002 7:58:04 AM PDT by
Yasotay
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