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Old 01-12-2023, 06:10 AM
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Some friends and I in front of a Satan missile outside the Ukrainian plant where it was designed and built, Youzhnoye/Youzmash, in Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine 2016.

This plant is more commonly known in the west as the Yangel Design Bureau. It's where they designed and built the missiles of the Cuban Missile crisis as well as the later Scuds. Youzhnoye serviced the post-soviet Russian Satans until Russia cut them off.

My understanding is that some artillery has recently hit the plant but I am unsure how much overall damage the plant has sustained

In post-soviet times the plant has manufactured the Zenits used for Sea Launch, as well as a variety of other non-military rockets.

Very, very storied place.

And the Satan, up close, is a VERY impressive missile.


Yuzhmash used to have another "rocket park" which contained the far rarer SS-15 "Scrooge." SS-15 was the USSR's first attempt at a road-mobile ICBM, and featured a solid propellant booster and liquid propellant second stage. Did you happen to get a shot of that one?
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Yuzhmash used to have another "rocket park" which contained the far rarer SS-15 "Scrooge." SS-15 was the USSR's first attempt at a road-mobile ICBM, and featured a solid propellant booster and liquid propellant second stage. Did you happen to get a shot of that one?
Here's a GREAT flickr album of MANY Soviet and a few Chinese rockets, missiles, and sites. The owner is obviously interested in capturing details for, I assume, scale models:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/marti...157622446691887

A missiles and rockets pooled group on flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/missile/pool/

A GREAT collection of photos of US military and civilian aerospace hardware and many (over a thousand) photos from the two best (fantastic) nuclear weapons museums in the US:

https://flickr.com/photos/28685581@...157631351011338
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Old 01-15-2023, 11:54 AM
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Manufacturing Harpoon Missiles

https://youtu.be/a63VIJ53-jU?t=134
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Raytheon Drone Defense Weapon

Multi-angle closeups of suspended static display unit in YouTube video linked below. Note the four angled inward (to point to CG) Aerotech RMS 38/240 motor casings at 1:22 also somewhat obvious in the test flight still image below:

https://youtu.be/laK1al5Qqc4?t=75

Testing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrRScxnDfrk

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GREAT story with much humor.

F-111 Crew Ejection! | Colonel Rob Kyrouac
202,024 views - Jan 11, 2023

Former USAF Aardvark pilot, Colonel Rob Kyrouac, shares the amazing story of the night he and his WSO, "Pud" ejected from their F-111F!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8vfzPswpyA

F-111 crew capsule example on display. Photos of the actual capsule in the incident are shown within the video:

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North Korea Shows Off Unprecedented Number Of ICBMs, Possible New Solid-Fuel Design - In its latest military parade, North Korea showed off around a dozen ‘super-large’ Hwasong-17s and a possible new solid-fuel ICBM design.
FEB 9, 2023


https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...lid-fuel-design

The narrator sounds positively psycho:

North Korea Showcases Missiles In Huge Military Parade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFPoPER7ftA

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Hwasong-15 (the type they launched most recently)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwasong-15

The Hwasong-15 is an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by North Korea. It had its maiden flight on 28 November 2017, around 3 a.m. local time. It is the first ballistic missile developed by North Korea that is theoretically capable of reaching all of the United States' mainland.



Hwasong-17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwasong-17

The Japanese Ministry of Defence estimates its operational range at 15,000 km or more. Unlike its predecessors, the Hwasong-17 may be capable of carrying multiple warheads. North Korea claimed the first Hwasong-17 was successfully launched on 24 March 2022. Western analysts instead believe the 24 March launch was an earlier missile design, and a later test that took place on 18 November 2022 was in fact the first successful test launch.

Since the Hwasong-15 was already capable of striking most of the contiguous United States, the development of an even larger missile suggests North Korea is pursuing MRV, or even MIRV, payloads. As of 2020, the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system comprises 44 interceptors, requiring the launch of at least four to guarantee a hit, enabling it to protect against a maximum of 11 warheads. The Hwasong-17 may contain three or four warheads, or potentially a mix of decoys and real warheads, so the launch of just a few missiles would be enough to overwhelm U.S. defenses.


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On the official 60 Minutes YouTube channel:

America's Nuclear Missile Fields; Defending America's Satellites | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

From 2014, Lesley Stahl's behind-the-scenes look into one of the U.S. Air Force's nuclear missile control centers. And from 2015, David Martin's report on the U.S. Air Force's Space Command, which is tasked with defending the satellites that we rely on in our everyday lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy2RGu2L2DI
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Secretive military space agency stepping out of the shadows

https://spacenews.com/secretive-mil...of-the-shadows/


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