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Missiles in a Shipping Container

by deepnotderp on 10/5/24, 11:11 PM with 4 comments

• by JumpCrisscross on 10/5/24, 11:26 PM

  > Instead of using tiny rocket thrusters (eg cold gas or hydrazine thrusters

  Hydrazine is toxic [1], auto ignites at “24°C on a rusty iron surface” [2] and burns at over 2,000°F [3].

  Cold gas or copter are better, though I’d personally consider springs with explosive bolts.

  [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK592403/

  [2] https://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0281.htm

  [3] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19680015493/downloads/19...

• by JoeyBananas on 10/6/24, 1:57 AM

  Whoever wrote this blog post seems so incredibly incompetent that they could easily be a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin

• by seo-speedwagon on 10/5/24, 11:42 PM

  Tilt beds for shipping containers already exist. Just fire it out the front? Or just use a winch?