The Original Tree
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Google SAMS with Liquid Propellant. Does not matter if it was liquid or solid, it would detonate on impact because you rupture the fuel reservoir. Some SAMs have solid and liquid propellant and others just liquid or solid.An impact would rupture the fuel reservoir on the missile. Most of these are filled with liquid propellant. At that point despite the warhead not detonating, the missile especially not having traveled too far is full of propellant and becomes a giant Fuel Air Bomb, detonating The Propellant & destroying the airplane.The Frag/HE warhead you showed definitely did not detonate. I thought they had a proximity fuse, but a sudden 1 1/2 foot impact through air frame or fuel tanks would probably take out almost anything. I'm no missle guy either. I wen wikipedia.Ok, as I said before, I thought the previous pic was a pic of the tip of a missile.
I had to look for a while, but this is what hit that Airplane. It is a TOR 29 Russian Made Anti Aircraft Missile.
The weird angle and shadows made it hard for me to identify it.
And these tips by the way frequently separate from the body of the missile upon impact. Note the small image on the pic below at the upper right hand side. Identical to what was found at the crash site.
BY THE WAY, WHERE DID ALL THE IRANIAN TROLLS GO?
SAM's use solid rocket fuel
Looking up the specs, The TORs are solid propellant, but it really doesn't matter because once that missile made impact the propellant was already ignited, and once the missile ruptured you would have had a huge explosion.
So exactly what is your point? Anything?
Are you trying to say solid propellant can't explode?
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