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<p>[QUOTE="KingofThings, post: 336909, member: 468"]Ah ok. I think blue may always denote practice ordnance. Short of the rockets fired on the range the bombs were blue. The rockets usually buried what was left in the ground making a PERFECT place for the mosquitos. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p>~</p><p>If I recall correctly the nuclear delivery practice weapons were grayish. </p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /> Apropos...no. </p><p>~</p><p>They had the grid tails to slow their fall so the aircraft could haul a$$ away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KingofThings, post: 336909, member: 468"]Ah ok. I think blue may always denote practice ordnance. Short of the rockets fired on the range the bombs were blue. The rockets usually buried what was left in the ground making a PERFECT place for the mosquitos. :p ~ If I recall correctly the nuclear delivery practice weapons were grayish. :o Apropos...no. ~ They had the grid tails to slow their fall so the aircraft could haul a$$ away.[/QUOTE]
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