Missile body

Launching launch frame has rail to accept tee shaped launch lug on missile body, frame is adjustable for height and has top mounted handle for carrying. 

System damage that may affect operational system (e.g., dent in missile body)... 

Missile structures (Fig. 100) comprise three basic components the body, the rocket motor and the radome. Radomes have been covered in detail in an earlier section, thus these examples will be confined to the missile bodies produced by MBDA and the motors manufactured by Roxel (UK Rocket Motors) Limited. 

End pioducls made from cuniinuuus strand include fire-resistant curtains, reinforced tires and transmission belts, and many reinforced plastic items, such as boats, auto bodies, corrosion-proof pipe, rooting panels, and missile cases. 

Sagger. NATO code-name for a Russ anti-tank missile, also known by the US alphanumeric designation AT-3, which is currently extensively deployed in Europe and elsewhere. In its man-portable version, the missile is carried into action in a Fiberglas case in which the warhead is separated from the motor. The lid of the case forms a base for launching the missile which has a launch rail on the underside of the motor section. The two parts are taken out of the case and the front legs of the rail on the motor section are slotted into the lid so that there is a small angle of elevation. This is done to ensure that the missile enters the operator s field of view when launched. The warhead (HEAT, piezo-electric fuze) is then clipped to the body. 

Principal characteristics of Subroc are length 20 6" (6-25m), max body diameter l 9ff (0.533m), launch wt, approx 4085 lbs (1853 kg), range 25-35 miles (40-56 km), and speed supersonic Subroc became operational in 1965, and continues to arm high-speed nuclear attack submarines of the US Navy in world-wide service. Each ship carries 4 to 6 Subroc missiles Refs 1) M.J.H. Taylor J.W.R. Taylor, Missiles of the World , Charles Scribner s Sons, NY (1976), 142 2) R.T. Pretty, Ed, Jane s... 

The missile length is 6.35m, body diameter 0.53m, wing span 1.63m, and has a slant range... 

When a microscopic invader breaches the outer defenses of the body the immune system swings into action. This happens automatically. The molecular systems of the body, like the Star Wars anti-missile system that the military once planned, are robots designed to run on autopilot. Since the defense is automated, every step has to be accounted for by some mechanism. The first problem that the automated defense system has is how to recognize an invader. Bacterial cells have to be distinguished from blood cells viruses have to be distinguished from connective tissue. Unlike us, the immune system can t see, so it has to rely initially on something akin to a sense of touch. 

Table 3.5 summarizes the effects of explosion overpressure on structures. With respect to human casualties, heavy building damage usually is equated to a fatal effect, as the people inside the buildings probably would be crushed. People outside of buildings or structures are susceptible to direct blast injury (blast overpressure) and indirect blast injury (missiles or whole body translation). 

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