About Missile Tip Colors
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March 29th, 2005
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| | Missile Tip Colors infoI'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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blue denotes a dummy round on both missiles and bombs
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May 15th, 2005
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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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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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 No seriously...The blue ones are the dummies while the yellow or red ones are usually not good to drop on your toes. \"...but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.\"-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the Boer. www.fambook.com | |
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