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CET · 08-27-2004, 03:43 PM

I fail to see how that could have been a missile. Falling back on my years in military test and evaluation of weapons and weapon systems, the shape of the impact looks rather like an airplane, and no missile that I know of would create damage consistent with what the pentagon looked like. Missiles tend to create one of a few shapes, but none of those shapes looks anything like the pentagon.

A SLAM could have easily penetrated all the way through to the middle of the pentagon and possibly further, but the explosion would have occured forward of the impact, not backwards.

JDAMs are similar to SLAMs.

Patriot missiles are air intercept missiles and have almost not penetration ability. Also, it does not explode backwards, it explodes in a ring shape.

A cruise missile would not have exploded backwards.

A Phoenix would need to be carried by a Tomcat, requires several clearance levels to be fired, is effective against air to air sorties and explodes in a very large circular pattern.

Sparrow missiles need to be carried by aircraft, but aren't very good at penetration, and don't explode backwards.

The only thing left is that it wasn't a missile at all, but probably an airplane. An airplane can explode on impact and send half of the fuselage forward like a missile, but the wings would destroy a shallow, yet wide area, because they would collapse quickly.

08-27-2004, 03:43 PM
CET Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,754	I fail to see how that could have been a missile. Falling back on my years in military test and evaluation of weapons and weapon systems, the shape of the impact looks rather like an airplane, and no missile that I know of would create damage consistent with what the pentagon looked like. Missiles tend to create one of a few shapes, but none of those shapes looks anything like the pentagon. A SLAM could have easily penetrated all the way through to the middle of the pentagon and possibly further, but the explosion would have occured forward of the impact, not backwards. JDAMs are similar to SLAMs. Patriot missiles are air intercept missiles and have almost not penetration ability. Also, it does not explode backwards, it explodes in a ring shape. A cruise missile would not have exploded backwards. A Phoenix would need to be carried by a Tomcat, requires several clearance levels to be fired, is effective against air to air sorties and explodes in a very large circular pattern. Sparrow missiles need to be carried by aircraft, but aren't very good at penetration, and don't explode backwards. The only thing left is that it wasn't a missile at all, but probably an airplane. An airplane can explode on impact and send half of the fuselage forward like a missile, but the wings would destroy a shallow, yet wide area, because they would collapse quickly. __________________ Alt Journals, Blogs for Perverts! Fitness and nutrition writer, and UNIX/Linux Sys Ad in training "Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."