No. Bright trace was period of SAM motor burn when camera shutter was
open, starting sometime after launch. Non-luminous stretch before that
was exhaust smoke from initial missile flight before shutter opening,
illuminated by ambient light in long exposure.
News reports said only Syrian SAMs were launched, no Russian-controlled
missiles, so whatever is in that photo was unlikely to be advanced
s300/s400 missiles. Me, I don't have data to tell more about missile
type from those photos.
Note however that these SAM launches may have been pointless - aimed at
nothing, or at EW-induced false targets - since presumably the cruise
missiles fired in the attack approached at low altitude, while the two
missile traces visible show no sign of descending toward low-altitude
intercepts.
Mind, assuming that what's come out in news reports is the whole story
is often a mistake in such matters.
Henry
On 4/20/2018 11:24 AM, johndom@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
So the non luminous stretch from soil to missile (S300_400?) was the pneumatic ejection interval from the launch tube ?
John
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*Onderwerp:*[AR] Re: fire lines in the sky
Time exposures of SAM launches.On 4/20/2018 5:41 AM, Padraig Lysandrou wrote:> I think these images are probably just long-exposure images, essentially > tons of images over time concatenated.> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 5:49 AM, John Dom > wrote:> > ____> > __ __> > I remember seeing pictures of glowing ICBM warhead lines re-entering> (near Johnston island, Pacific?). But since cruise missiles were> used on Syria, I cannot____> > explain the fiery lines in above picture, especially since they end> abruptly in the sky. Above their target? Cruise missiles do not> re-enter. ____> > OTOH, could it be they were launched from land and the trails are> the booster rockets firing as pictured with an open objective?____> > John____> > __ __> > > > > -- > All the best,> Padraig Lysandrou