I think one of the coolest missiles is the sprint missile, turns 90 degrees goes fast af and glows orange almost immediately
Another tangent the kill vehicles which I'm not sure if they still use
Payload delivery is interesting (the multiple cones in the head separate and spin on re-entry)
And finally last tangent, a study on the effects of clouds/air particles hitting the faces of hypersonic glide vehicles, I remember a picture it looked like a #2 pencil tip but it was partially ablated
edit: I found that image I was thinking of sorry it's on X was just on Google Images
I think one of the coolest missiles is the sprint missile, turns 90 degrees goes fast af and glows orange almost immediately
Another tangent the kill vehicles which I'm not sure if they still use
Payload delivery is interesting (the multiple cones in the head separate and spin on re-entry)
And finally last tangent, a study on the effects of clouds/air particles hitting the faces of hypersonic glide vehicles, I remember a picture it looked like a #2 pencil tip but it was partially ablated
edit: I found that image I was thinking of sorry it's on X was just on Google Images
https://x.com/masao_dahlgren/status/1488632918465470467
(Reentry vehicle nosetip after flying through rain at Mach 10)