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Total Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall - Additional Camera Angles
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Additional camera angles of the 1988 Sandia National Laboratories rocket-sled test in which an F-4 Phantom was crashed at about 500 mph into a block of reinforced concrete. The footage shows the aircraft disintegrating against the wall.
HN commenters cite it in nuclear and engineering debates as evidence that concrete containment structures can withstand aircraft impacts.
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