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March 29th, 2005
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| Immunes | Post; Missile Tip ColorsCan anyone tell me what the colors on a missile tip for a USAF bird denote? I've heard that Blue tips are Dummy Ordance and White tips are Live, but I've also heard the reverse. Can anyone confirm one way or another? thanks
__________________ \"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of b******t.\" -- General George Patton Jr |
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March 29th, 2005
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| Banned  | blue denotes a dummy round on both missiles and bombs |
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May 15th, 2005
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| Milites Gregarius | Typically the yellow rings are explosive munitions. I've also seen them red, but basically have the same meaning. |
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May 16th, 2005
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| Nuclear Duck Hunter  | In the old days, our Nike Hercs had small pieces of reflective tape on the nuclear ones denoting the yield in Kt. I think 5Kt was yellow, green was. 20Kt and red was 30Kt. I don't think the HE loads were color coded.
__________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |
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May 16th, 2005
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| Optio | Quote:
 No seriously...The blue ones are the dummies while the yellow or red ones are usually not good to drop on your toes.
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