Katyusha propellant

Stolen from the Wiki:

Granted, Wiki isn't always right, but more often than not, it is. (answers.com has the exact same text)

Spaceline has this:

-Aar> Speaking of rocket fuel (re: onion atricle), can anyone hazard a guess at

The rockets being fired today are clearly different than those described at Spaceline or Wikipedia. First, their range is much more than 3 miles. Second, the plume does not look like a double-base propellant. Looks more like a metalized composite of some sort, possibly a fairly standard AP/Al/HTPB mix.

-JT

I'm sorry, you are correct. The double-base powder versions were from WW-II. The newer versions (version 3? mark-3?, whatever) have a range of 25-30 miles (~45km)

-Aar> Aar> > Stolen from the Wiki:

Jeff Taylor wrote in news:qiNCg.16661$l95.9032@trnddc08:

There was a night time air strike in downtown Bey Ruth. There was a large red fireball, quickly followed by a bright white fireball with flaming/sparking/smoking bits, which turned blue-white. I think this was definitly a strike with a secondaty explosion of AP/metal fuel. Maybe a Blue Thunder type mix (loked a lot like a cato I once saw).

I doubt it since Blue Thunder doesn't explode.

Maybe not by strict definition, but it still does nasty things to a target.

Rocket motors, even without warheads, can do a lot of damage. Remember the British ships that were sunk or heavily damaged in the Falkland Islands war? In most of those cases, when the Exocet missiles struck the ships the warhead failed to detonate. It was the rocket motor burning up its remaining propellant inside the ship that did the damage.

-JT

Agreed. There's no doubt that they are very effective at setting things on fire.

Yes indeed