| ▲ | walrus01 an hour ago | |
Liquid fueled launch vehicles aren't storable/able to be made ready at a moment's notice, unlike solids. Liquid fueled historical artifact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas There's a reason all modern silo based (and submarine) ICBMs are solids. | ||
| ▲ | stickfigure an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> There's a reason all modern silo based (and submarine) ICBMs are solids. Believe it or not, here in 2026, this is incorrect! Those crazy Russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-29RMU_Sineva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-29RMU2_Lajner UDMH + nitrogen tetroxide. I would not want to be a Russian submariner. For all sorts of reasons. | ||