Probably the coolest ICBM lsunch video I've ever seen.

a few more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUrmhdu60QY

Very impressive, but I’d like to see the video of these launches:

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The first one was like the first Trident II sea launch. I’ve seen the video and the missile doesn’t corkscrew like it appears. More like it just tumbles end over end. I was a little disappointed as I’d hoped to see something like a runaway firework 🙂

The second is a THAAD launch and you can find videos of those all over the place.

Very impressive, but I’d like to see the video of these launches:

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One word, one emotion…

YEEEEEEEEHAW!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzXI-mlJjs

Thank you, and whoa! What a launch, absolutely gorgeous.

Well the launch of S-300 is called “cold” but it is just compared to launches of other missiles.S-300 use gas produced by gas-generator using slow burning propellent.Even in the russian site’s they use the word for “gunpowder”.
“The gas goes from high pressure tanks on the vehicle (or somewhere on the canister)”-gas generators are in the bottom of the launch tube.

There is a mechanism that hold the missile in place,and in the launch process ensures that there is no latteral movement.One of the holding joints is in the top,and there is a exploding bolt.(S-300V 9M83 missile)

In the case of 48N6E missile the mechanism move just to the middle of the tube.You can see it here painted in red.

Very nice find! I suppose the smoke/liquid could be something as mundane as dust/snow on the canister that is disturbed by erecting the launcher and the moving piston.

The sound is awesome 🙂

After watching it about forty times this is about what I got out of it. From the time the cap pops off until the missile leaves that canister it’s just about 30 seconds. Seeing how it’s a space launch the seeming haste seems unneccessry which leads me to believe the entire process is automated which from a military standpoint makes sense. Then you hear the high pressure tanks vent into the missile canister, it starts to move up and then you hear and see two or three small explosions as the missile is exiting. Maybe they’re some kind of explosive bolts that release a restraining system for the sabots that create the seal in the canister. I was also interested in the “smoke” that seems to be coming off the canister as it almost reaches upright. My first thought was that given the location of the hydraulic ram attachment and the speed which the thing is raised that the fluid temperature is HOT and it’s venting gas but then with a little thought I realized there no reason it would need to be any higher than that of a current generation aircraft and they don’t smoke so I dont know what the smoke is from. Then if you look close you’ll see what appears to be some kind of white liquid running down the bottom end of the canister. No idea what that might be. I was surprised at how slow the missile seems to leave the tube. Compared to a Peacekeeper it’s fairly pedestrian. Also you’ll notice the motor ignites just as the missile clears the top of the tube. (Okay 41 times) Scrubbing through it it’s DEFINTIELY blowing of sabots with those small explosions and the motor ignites right at the end of the tube. So I’m guessing the sabots aren’t necessarily to create a seal as with the Peackeeper (and the gas blows those sabots off on it) but more just to position the missile on a piston inside the canister. The gas goes from high pressure tanks on the vehicle (or somewhere on the canister) into a lower pressure cavity behind the piston which the missile rests on. Once the pressure there reaches a predetermined level a set of mechanical locks releases and the piston rapidly raises the missile up out of the canister. The piston probably parks at the top, seals off the tube and deflects rocket exhaust. This would put a lot less stress on the launch vehicle than blowing the thing out like a Peacekeeper. I would be VERY interested in learning more about the cold launch systems of the mobile Russian systems (including SS-24 and the S-300s) along with the Peacekeeper and SICBM. Unfortunately I doubt the information is just sitting out there for all to see. 🙁

Had one question , When the Rocket engines starts a sec or two before lift off , and when the Missile lifts off from the Canister , what are those 3 Boom/Thaad Noise produced before the missles frees from the canister

IIRC the Topol-M uses a Cold Launch Method and hence the missiles is first thrown out from the canister and then within mili seconds the rocket motor starts

Can you please share the video over some other file sharing website as well??

Such as www.yousendit.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzXI-mlJjs

I have come across a few vids recently that haven’t played on WM Player… it keeps coming up with a “class error” of some sort. It is frustrating as some of the vids are particularly good and I want to convert them to DVD so I can play them on my DVD player on my TV.

For the most part WM Player is pretty lame, even 10. VLC is the best I’ve found so far. If that won’t work for you there are apps that can examine the media file in question and tell you which audio and video codec you will need to view it. You can pretty much convert anything to anything with the right converters out there. It’s a big PITA though at times. You may have to go through two or three conversions to get it back to a format that can be played on a TV 🙁

I have come across a few vids recently that haven’t played on WM Player… it keeps coming up with a “class error” of some sort. It is frustrating as some of the vids are particularly good and I want to convert them to DVD so I can play them on my DVD player on my TV.

Thanks Djnik, and sferrin. Worked a treat and it was worth waiting for – what a cool video!

Yep, that’s what I use too. Could be he needs the right codec also. Make sure you’ve got at least DivX and XviD.

Why can’t I play it? Strange because I can play other .avi files – just not this one. Very annoying.

Get VLC media player.It plays everything:)

Why can’t I play it? Strange because I can play other .avi files – just not this one. Very annoying.

Simply Awesome , Thanks

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=80021

Is this Topol-M? The reason I ask is because there was a picture floating around a while back of what appeared to be a Topol launcher but with a bigger than normal YELLOW missile pod. Whatever THAT was this is it.

Excellent video Sferrin!

That is one of the normal surplus Topol missiles that got converted to sattelite launcher.

2006 April 25, 20:46 Moscow Summer Time (16:46 GMT): (planned time: 20:47:16) A converted ballistic missile delivered an Israeli remote-sensing satellite, after a blastoff from a launch site in the Russian Far East. The Start-1 launch vehicle, carrying the EROS-B1 satellite, blasted off from a mobile launcher deployed at the Svobodny.

The payload entered a nominal 508-kilometer circular polar orbit with the inclination 97.3 degrees toward the Equator approximately 16 minutes after the launch. The solar panels of the satellite had been successfully deployed some 30 seconds later.

The mission of the EROS-B1 received more attention from the media that those of its predecessor, in light of recent threats to Israel from the Iranian government. The world press emphasized that the Israeli government, as one of the major customer of the satellite’s data, could use it to monitor Iranian military activities, including its nuclear and missile programs.

The launch was delayed from the fourth quarter of 2005 and March 21, 2005.

Can you please share the video over some other file sharing website as well??

Such as www.yousendit.com