#reentry vehicle

[nelc]

General Bernard A. Schriever (right) with members of Avco Cooperation (today: Textron, Inc) inspects an experimental missile warhead re-entry vehicle in 1959. Creating an effective nuclear-armed missile force was one of his main goals. ICBM Test Vehicle of U.S. Air Force Thor-Able Reentry Program. Recovered April 1959 after 5000 mile flight.

[mirajoyce]

[nelc]

USAF personnel with Mk 12 RV (containing W87 warhead) and Minuteman bus

[nelc]

Phillip Buehler, Nuclear Warheads, 2014, Front Room Gallery

[fruitsoftheweb]

“This hybrid mesh for the X-38 re-entry vehicle was generated using the latest version of Pointwise's T-Rex technique and consists of a layer of unstructured hexahedra (green) extruded off the quadrilateral surface mesh (yellow) and connected to the farfield tetrahedra (blue) by pyramids. The orange cells are hexahedra on the symmetry plane. Not shown are prisms extruded off triangles on the vehicle's base.”