Naval Aviation Photography documentary shows missile, bomb, rocket release and impact in slow motion

November 5, 2012 Military Aviation, Weapons

David Cenciotti

I don’t know when it was produced. Maybe in the ’60s or ’70s. Still, I think this documentary about Naval Aviation Photography is extremely interesting about half a century later.

You can learn a bit more about the way bombs, missiles, rockets and even naval aviation planes are (actually “were”) filmed, and you’ll discover that back then, 1 million frame per second cameras were already available to film weapon impact and explosions in slow motion.

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About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.