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  • I think they’re engine units, yeah. “Booster” implies there’s some sort of second stage, so that’s not really the right word.

    But yeah, these were NOT shot down, they’re just the engine units that fall to the ground somewhere behind the target after delivering it’s payload.

    If these had been shot down, they’d look a lot more like the Stormshadow above, ripped to pieces (and probably with the warhead attached)

    Edit: actually, a Stormshadow/Scalp in hard-target mode might also look like this, since most of the rear end would just kinda smack ‘harmlessly’ into the hard target after delivering the penetrator and follow-up separately.

    The nose section isn’t shown, which is what would be present on an intercepted missile.




















  • You yourself seem to suggest that it is more related to the sheer size of freeways and interstates that make open-graded mixes cost-ineffective, which I agree with.

    No, what I said is that you can absolutely use open asphalt outside of freeways, but that the benefit is smaller. Whether or not you want to do it all depends on how you weigh your cost-benefit analysis. Many Dutch cities use it in the city for noise reduction, regardless of higher cost. But if you value things like noise and splash reduction less, then the cost-benefit will land more solidly on “don’t build expensive things”.