While reviewing records, Archives Specialist James found some interesting photos that relate to the development of missiles at the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California. These engineers were recording various types of data at Point Mugu and off the coast of California at San Nicolas Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island.
This data helped the missiles with guidance, trajectory, aerodynamics, acceleration, and much more. Photo 1 shows the engineers working on equipment that captured data during the missile test. Photo 2 shows one of the various ways they were collecting data, which in this photo is a chain radar system. This chain radar system tracked the missile and relayed the data back to be recorded. Photo 3 shows what the missile would look like during flight.
When an airborne volley of what investigators now believe were cruise missiles and drones laid waste to Saudi oil processing centers Saturday, the price of crude jumped and tremors rippled through the global energy market.Whether it can definitively be established that Iran launched this brazen attack, and whether the United States will respond militarily, remain to be seen. But certain takeaways are already clear. Our view.
