glups@piefed.social to Photography@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoI stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBMmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down11
arrow-up1169arrow-down1imageI stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBMmedia.piefed.socialglups@piefed.social to Photography@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareTangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·3 months 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-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-23 months 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
minus-squareglups@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·3 months 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
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?
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
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