On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:10 AM,  <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> wrote:
> Which reminds me of an image I really need to track down and scan. It
> was in a Scientific American artile about ICBMs or some such. It
> showed three or four RVs (dummy warheads) coming down near Kwajalien
> atoll.
>
> It was a daytime pic. And the RVs are easily visible as these ruler
> straight bright whit lines (plasma sheath). They look like a special
> effect from a movie!
>
> I showed it to the gaming group and we all made notes to *really*
> change our descriptions of such things in the future.
>
> I'd imagine that incoming ortillery rounds would look much the same.

Google image search, "Kwajalein icbm"

 http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=12225

Image 5 is a night hit.

Day hits:

 http://www.bechtel.com/projects/kwajalein-test-range/

Peacekeeper:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg

Context here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper

Third row here:

http://www.smdc.army.mil/SMDCPhoto_Gallery/Missiles/Missiles.html

"Kwajalein MIRV"   gets even prettier images.  Or scarier.

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