MGM-140A ATACMS Block I
Original model with 165 km range, inertial navigation and 950 M74 anti-personnel and anti-materiel (APAM) grenades.
MGM-140A ATACMS Block I
Original model with 165 km range, inertial navigation and 950 M74 anti-personnel and anti-materiel (APAM) grenades.
Manufacture date 10/96?
Here’s a fun exercise. Sync up the manufacture dates on weapons, their expiry, and massive global conflicts breaking which happen to clear out old inventory.
You die so Lockheed Martin keeps making billions.
As an environmentalist, I’m so relieved they are not simply going to waste.
Do they use also look - smell - taste like for food after its best before date has passed?
I suspect the failure rate goes up. Have you seen the video of the Russian AA missile pretending to be a boomerang 🪃 and flying back to its launch point?
That’s what can happen with old rockets.
Yes, I’ve seen (that?) such a video. Rockets and missiles have a lot of mechanical and electronical parts that can refuse to work properly when overaged or stored under bad conditions, besides fancy things happening to the explosives.