Most Incredible Looking Military Missiles Picture Thread!

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TopRamen

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I'll start with this:



Immagine making a Scale Model of that!!!:surprised::y:
 
emckee said:
Isn't that this?
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No, it's a Bloodhound. They're very similar and you're not the first to make that mistake, though since Bloodhound is better known, the mistake is usually to see a Thunderbird and call it a Bloodhound. :)

The giveaway is those big nacelles. They're ramjets, the power for Bloodhound's sustainer. Thunderbird's sustainer is powered by a single rocket motor in the back, so it has a full set of four midships main fins.

But for just plain weird, take a look at the 3M8M, alias Krug, alias SA-4, alias Ganef:
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I see a scale RCRG coming up.

What on Earth is this? I can tell it's Russian, but that's as far as I go.

Ari.
 
iter said:
I see a scale RCRG coming up.

What on Earth is this? I can tell it's Russian, but that's as far as I go.

Ari.
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I have not the slightest Idea what it is, but I have independantly confirmed its Incredibility, thus I post it here for your Review.
 
This one is incredible for its sheer size. Look up, there's a Guy on some form of Scaffold or Gantry doing something. The Missile makes him feel small. I got to climb around on Atomic Annie at Ft. Riley, KS.



 
I used a thing called TinEye that takes a picture and does a search, took a while....I like it, hard to see the intake on the bottom, sort of snark like with boosters that give it a bit of bomarc feel...I've never heard of it before.......

iter said:
All I can say is--wow. Thank you for the link.

Ari.
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TopRamen said:
This one is incredible for its sheer size. Look up, there's a Guy on some form of Scaffold or Gantry doing something. The Missile makes him feel small. I got to climb around on Atomic Annie at Ft. Riley, KS.

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He looks small because he's kneeling on a gantry somewhere behind the missile. The missile is the SA-5 Gammon, 10.76m long - not that much bigger than the 8.45m Bloodhound and about the same as the SA-2 Guideline. ;)

Now for today's bargain, two for the price of one.
238px-Rheinbote_and_Rheintochters.jpg


On the left, Rheintochter, one of Germany's WW2 attempts at a SAM. On the right, Rheinbote, a four-stager with a six-nozzle booster based on the first stage of Rheintochter.
 
adrian said:
He looks small because he's kneeling on a gantry somewhere behind the missile. The missile is the SA-5 Gammon, 10.76m long - not that much bigger than the 8.45m Bloodhound and about the same as the SA-2 Guideline. ;)

Now for today's bargain, two for the price of one.
238px-Rheinbote_and_Rheintochters.jpg


On the left, Rheintochter, one of Germany's WW2 attempts at a SAM. On the right, Rheinbote, a four-stager with a six-nozzle booster based on the first stage of Rheintochter.
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Ahh! That's why everything like the Truck Tires look so out of proportion! Rheintochter is interesting.
 
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Rheintochter is the heaven or nirvana of evrey rocket builder.
Full scale
2 stages
both hybrid

hmmmmmmmm, I like that..with enough sonotube and foam shapping feasible..but a 8" version FWFG is very exciting....just waiting for Curtis to deliver the 3:1 NCs....
uuuh!
 
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How's this for a Nose Cone?




This would make a challenging Scale Build.
 
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I love the Sea Dart. I have some drawings around here somewhere along with some crude measurements, but I want to wait until I tet a lathe to go after it.
 
TopRamen said:
Now you've done it! The Search is on!

Says it's a Skill Level 2??? Looks rather complex to me. Perhaps the lower Transition Section is Prefabricated Plastic?
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Unfortunately, that booster section on the Estes kit is mostly plastic parts.

But it can be done.
 
sandman said:
Unfortunately, that booster section on the Estes kit is mostly plastic parts.

But it can be done.
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Well, if they are nicely made Plastic Parts, then it is ok. As long as it's not like how Semroc Butchered the SAM-3. Close enough is one thing, but making an absolute Joke out of a Machine that was designed to Destroy stuff is moronic in my Opinion.
I'de actually prefer Plastic molded Parts to skimping on the Transitions.
 
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legranddudu said:
Rheintochter is the heaven or nirvana of evrey rocket builder.
Full scale
2 stages
both hybrid

hmmmmmmmm, I like that..with enough sonotube and foam shapping feasible..but a 8" version FWFG is very exciting....just waiting for Curtis to deliver the 3:1 NCs....
uuuh!
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That will be awesome and the rocket gods will let you into Asgard.
 
Well I was going to nominate Sea Dart and Sea Slug - Sea Dart has been done but I love the Heath Robinson type of design in Sea Slug - such a large missile the Royal Navy had to build a whole class of ships to carry it. Its such a mad looking missile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Slug_(missile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwPb-uWLXMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8gZNtEqQQ


Sea Dart and Rhinetochter are both on my build list and, if itwasnt for me being so slow building anything Rhinetochter would have been built by now - sighs - unfortunately another birthday came round and my boys bought me Perseus II (not a bad disaster to have in your life I guess) and one thing has led to another and now I am diverted builing a 12v launch controller
 
TopRamen opined: "As long as it's not like how Semroc Butchered the SAM-3."

SEMROC did not "butcher" the SAM-3. It is a kit they sent to their SEMROC Astronautics Modeler members - SAMs - and made available to others. It is a flippin' skill level 1 kit, not a scale model.
I do have an Estes Sea Dart kit in my collection. The plastic parts are not all that highly detailed, but make for an easier build. It isn't a truely scale kit either, but did introduce a lot of folks to the British missile.

Quite a while back, someone offered a Sprint ABM kit, but the name escapes me. Basically a cone model, but with a printed wrap if I recall correctly.

Chas
 
boomtube said:
Wasn’t the Sprint the missile that broke the sound barrier before it completely left the launch rail and basically destroyed it as a result?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)

The Sprint was silo launched, driven by a piston out of the silo then the motor fired. I haven't read what the condition of the silo was after launch, but as my dad would say, "It didn't do it any good."

The first stage propellant was consumed in 1.2 s and was a "V" impulse class.

That rocket had an EXTREME boogie factor.

Greg
 
GregGleason said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)

The Sprint was silo launched, driven by a piston out of the silo then the motor fired. I haven't read what the condition of the silo was after launch, but as my dad would say, "It didn't do it any good."

The first stage propellant was consumed in 1.2 s and was a "V" impulse class.

That rocket had an EXTREME boogie factor.

Greg
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Over 600,000lbs of thrust for the whole duration at a KN of 6.0 (yes, six). Sooo cool.
 

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