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Summary

Source: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2021/02/09/rockets-over-yemen-inside-the-houthis-botched-attack-on-aden-airport/

Discussion

I may have to rethink this rocket attack on Aden airport. The spray pattern looks to give the opposite trajectory to Bellingcat's. Anyone feel able to confirm? --Diagonal (talk) 07:01, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Was not following who said what, and it is a bit tricky. For a cylindrical missile charge, stuff will start flying almost/mostly radially (ie outward, perpendicular to the cylinder axes, mostly) . If it went into ground (at an angle, tail pointing back) it will manifest as "blow back", sharp marks/hard surface damage backward, and also spray ground on top of its submerged end ,that is mostly forward. But it's best to have high resolution of crater , as one of those two things might look as the other one. There should be some graphics around , from some manuals, giving more wisdom and practical experience of figuring direction, from people doing this for living . Do not have ready links for that,--Resup (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
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The terminal building faces approx NNW so the camera angle is roughly south facing in the image of the strike. The missile trajectory clearly has westerly component to its vector, indicating a NW/WNW direction of origin. --Diagonal (talk) 10:02, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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