F-4 Phantom vaporized

[Randazzo]

Impact at 500 mph, or 223.52 m/s for kerbal reference.

Edit: Stealing Taters better, advertisement-free video

Edited August 25, 2015 by Randazzo

[Sharkman Briton]

Holy mother of squad.

[LordFerret]

Now... on a dare... would you have stood atop that wall during the test? How about behind it?

(ordered my lifts, gonna be 2" taller in a few weeks)

[worir4]

Wow, that was awesome! A plane just turned to dust. I suppose it explains why parts on KSP do the same when they explode.

[Flymetothemun]

...(ordered my lifts, gonna be 2" taller in a few weeks)

You better be short Ferret. I'm tall and I'm always hitting my head on door frames and low-hanging chandeliers. It's gotten to the point where I barely feel it now, but the post-hit headaches are still as strong.

[Randazzo]

Now... on a dare... would you have stood atop that wall during the test? How about behind it?

I think quite a substantial sum (and a wider wall) would be required for me to agree to stand behind it. Certainly not on top of it.

[tater]

Ah, An Albuquerque video, cool.

Destructive testing guys have a lot of fun.

[tater]

Not much else to do in NM but eat chile, and blow stuff up

[RainDreamer]

Physics, the greatest magician of all time.

[lajoswinkler]

Yes, that was a test of a nuclear power plant containment wall which surrounds all modern power plants. Those things are impossible to penetrate using any planes as missiles.

[tater]

If you go to the Sandia National Laboratories video site, you can find their uncommented video, and some images. Go to historical, they show the post-site inspection as well.

1988 rocket-sled test by Sandia Labs, on Flickr

1988 rocket-sled test by Sandia Labs, on Flickr

[Nibb31]

Something to show the 9/11 conspiracy theorists when they complain that there was no plane wreckage at the Pentagon crash site.

[Elthy]

Yes, that was a test of a nuclear power plant containment wall which surrounds all modern power plants. Those things are impossible to penetrate using any planes as missiles.

Actualy, in the post Fukushima discusion about safety of nuclear powerplants in Germany, it became clear that the protection against airplanes isnt good enough. When the reactors were build the building had to resist an impact of a military jet (like shown on the test), it was never planned for them to resist way larger civil machines like those used in 9/11. Of course this security flaw was never fixed, because it would have been way to expensive...