Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Minuteman III MIRV path.svg

Image:Minuteman III MIRV path.svg - not featured

Info created, uploaded and nominated by User:Fastfission
This is a self-nomination, but I was very happy with how it came out. It is an explanation of how a multi-stage MIRV missile (in this case, a Minuteman III) is launched. It is based on an image in a US government publication, but completely re-drawn from scratch in Inkscape with a number of big changes, and with numbers for easy internationalization. You can see it used in an article at the MIRV article on the English Wikipedia. --Fastfission 00:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Fastfission 00:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 16:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note - This is a US missile, which suggests that that is the US on the left. Which would make that Europe on the right and the island (Great Britain?) reinforces that notion, which makes the image a bit too suggestive, even though the countours don't fit. Moving the island to the other side of the ocean would probably solve that. DirkvdM 19:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The landscape is generic (it could just as easily be firing over the North Pole, or over the Atlantic Ocean), but sure, I could move the island, it's no trouble. --Fastfission
  - Also, ever heard of arms dealers? US arms make it out of the United States constantly to other countries. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 18:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - True, but probably not a three-stage MIRVed missile armed with nuclear warheads, which someone would notice missing I'm sure (and would not be worth the expense to traffic—you can do more with less these days). --Fastfission 18:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support i wouldnt have minded the island where it was. you are being too paranoid -LadyofHats 09:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2 support → not featured Roger McLassus 10:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]