As the saying goes, one minute on stage, ten years offstage. Behind a skilled operation, it often takes ten times a hundred times more hard work. In the 20th century, when the US and Soviet superpowers competed for hegemony, we only saw the glamorous surface of their weapons, but ignored their hard work.
On October 24, 1960, at the Baikonur rocket launch site near the Aral Sea of the former Soviet Union, one of the most tragic explosions of space weapons in human history occurred. Marshal Nejerin, commander of the Soviet missile forces present, was killed on the spot, and nearly a hundred Soviet astronaut scientists on the launch pad were all killed. The disaster was caused by a P16 intercontinental missile. The missile was originally scheduled to be launched on October 23, and on the same day, it was erected at the launch site with a large crane, but after expert inspection, it was found that there was still a fault such as a poor circuit engine and fuel leakage in the boiler pump part, so the launch time was postponed. The personnel concerned removed the floodgates and carried out the burning and welding repair work for the rocket filled with fuel on the spot, which was a serious violation of the operating procedures. That night, the launch was on the 24th. 30 minutes before the P16 missile took off, the crew was still repairing a distribution. Suddenly, the second section of the missile's engine was somehow ignited, spewing flames, followed by the fuel cylinder of the first section, causing a raging fire and a violent explosion, and all the biological departments in the scene were gone, leaving only coins and keys.
The United States is the integrator of aircraft carriers, and the rise and landing of aircraft carrier deck fighters in the United States is doing very well. Countries have learned from them again, but they also had a deck crash in the 1980s.
Late on the night of October 24, 1981, the Nimitz was preparing to recover the fleet returning from simulated operations. At about 23:25, a flat-nosed 610 EA-6B Prowler electronic countermeasure aircraft, piloted by Lieutenant Steve White, was not successful in its first landing, the aircraft touched the ship and resumed flight, and 20 minutes later, the 610 re-entered the landing course, this time landing on the ship. However, when the plane landed, it landed at the best landing speed of the prince, and the landing aircraft did not aim at the middle line of the runway, but instead ran to the left, with the nose tilted to the right. At this point, the pilot did not make a call for the plane to deviate from the centerline, but mistakenly called: "The plane is normal, steady." "The plane went from left to right, crossed the midline, and rushed to the right. At about 23:50, with a loud bang, the flames rose up in the air, and aircraft 610 crashed into the group of aircraft parked on the flight deck, and a rare collision incident occurred on an aircraft carrier. It killed 14 people, 42 were injured by fire or debris from missile explosions, and 11 aircraft were destroyed or burned, costing $53.45 million and other equipment and property losses amounting to $4.48 million.