yankee451
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Let's review:
JASSMs are part of a program that has been around since the 70s. Even the official records state it was approved for production in 2000 which means it worked and the Air Force wanted to buy it, but who knows what the classified records state. It would be ideal to use a previously unknown missile for a clandestine operation, so by using one that was not yet deployed or mass produced would give plausible deniabilty, but the technology used goes back decades, and two months after 9/11 the Air Force was publicly raving about this new missile:
JASSMs have a 12x60 inch penetrating warhead designed for punching through hardened targets. The warhead contains 240 lbs of explosives which would make a crater roughly the size of the center hole in the Shanksville gash. This could account for the "wings" and the hole: one missile struck as an "aerostable slug" sans detonation, and the other struck at an opposite direction and detonated in the center.
As a real world example, NASA provides images of oblique craters and gives us the trajectories of the projectiles that caused them; <10 degrees:
By mirroring the image we get a good picture of what a crater might look like if two projectiles had struck from opposite directions:
Which is a pretty close match with Shanksville:
We have an eye witness account of a terrain-hugging small white jet, "no wider than my van" made of white molded fiberglass.
And we have other witness accounts of F16s in the area and heard a missile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQTNy6Jb26A
JASSMs are part of a program that has been around since the 70s. Even the official records state it was approved for production in 2000 which means it worked and the Air Force wanted to buy it, but who knows what the classified records state. It would be ideal to use a previously unknown missile for a clandestine operation, so by using one that was not yet deployed or mass produced would give plausible deniabilty, but the technology used goes back decades, and two months after 9/11 the Air Force was publicly raving about this new missile:
JASSMs have a 12x60 inch penetrating warhead designed for punching through hardened targets. The warhead contains 240 lbs of explosives which would make a crater roughly the size of the center hole in the Shanksville gash. This could account for the "wings" and the hole: one missile struck as an "aerostable slug" sans detonation, and the other struck at an opposite direction and detonated in the center.
As a real world example, NASA provides images of oblique craters and gives us the trajectories of the projectiles that caused them; <10 degrees:
By mirroring the image we get a good picture of what a crater might look like if two projectiles had struck from opposite directions:
Which is a pretty close match with Shanksville:
We have an eye witness account of a terrain-hugging small white jet, "no wider than my van" made of white molded fiberglass.
And we have other witness accounts of F16s in the area and heard a missile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQTNy6Jb26A
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