What kind of missile is this?

Taken at Woomera, South Australia.



Also I took a photo of the tip of a hypersonic research vehicle. I thought the tip looked strange.



Woomera is a complete ghost town. Never saw one person or car on the streets, only a BAe systems car - almost eerie. An RAAF C-130 flew over, what do they do at Woomera still? I understand they still do aeronautical testing there, Tiger helos, F-18's, & secret UAV's. Any more details?

Thanks.

EDIT: And what do they do at Tennant Creek. Lots of army dudes around and for some reason army refueling trucks were driving around at 4AM sorounded by humvees.



[edit on 3/7/2009 by C0bzz]

It's not a bloodhound SAM is it?

www.airforce.gov.au...

As for what happens in Woomera, maybe a U2U to OzWeatherman is in order, he lives and works there now.



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Looks like a typical ballistic missile




What type exactly, I am not sure. I will keep looking.

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You observations are probably right.

I don't remember the name of therocket but I remember seeing them in a Canadian special about how they used them with a model avro arrow on the tip to do tests of the supersonic capabilities because avro didn't have a supersonic wind tunnel.

The british use to do nuclear and missile testing there, so maybe its one of their missiles ?

There are four black projects on the go down there.
Thats the word at the moment.

LINK wiki

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Do you have any more info about them?

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There are 4 countries testing their own "black" (publicly undeclared) aircraft out at Woomera. It includes the UK. I'm assuming that it's in the mix.

Thats the gossip at the moment.

This was tested at womera
linky

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Ah yeah, I've read about the UK doing UAV test flights out at Woomera.

Perfect spot for such tests really.

www.subbrit.org.uk...

bloodhound battery at RAF Holmpton/Patrington


believe it or not but at least 1 country is still using the bloodhound mk2 - Burma - in 1994 Singapore sold there entire system to them

www.burmalibrary.org...


the swiss airforce finally retired the system in 1999 - although they are in storage for possible re-activation.


personally i would love one , or even the road mobile version the British Army`s Thunderbird



and finally:

YouTube Link

YouTube Link

2 video`s of the bloodhound in action

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Where did you get those pics of them?