glups@piefed.social to Photography@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoI stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBMmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down11
arrow-up1175arrow-down1imageI stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBMmedia.piefed.socialglups@piefed.social to Photography@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareTangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·6 days agoWhat am I looking at? I thought the tail end was supposed to have one of those conical exit nozzles, or is that only rockets?
minus-squareglups@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 days agoThis is the injector plate for a liquid fueled Titan II. They went out of service in the 80s iirc. Modern ICBMs use solid fuel, which are much different
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-26 days agoThat’s what’s inside the bell, it’s the injector plate. http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-injector/f-1-injector-end-exploded-view.jpg http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-injector.html
What am I looking at? I thought the tail end was supposed to have one of those conical exit nozzles, or is that only rockets?
This is the injector plate for a liquid fueled Titan II. They went out of service in the 80s iirc. Modern ICBMs use solid fuel, which are much different
That’s what’s inside the bell, it’s the injector plate.
http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-injector/f-1-injector-end-exploded-view.jpg
http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-injector.html