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To: ArrogantBustard

Typical liquid rocket fuels are cryogenic (e.g. liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, etc.) that require certain storage abilities...therefor many ICBM’s sit unfueled until just before launch.

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/SPACEFLIGHT/solids/SP13.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_fuel


17 posted on 10/19/2007 7:24:51 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
Please identify which ICBM types, currently deployed by any nation, use cryogenic fuels.

Thank you.

20 posted on 10/19/2007 7:51:24 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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