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What am I looking at? I thought the tail end was supposed to have one of those conical exit nozzles, or is that only rockets?
This is the injector plate for a liquid fueled Titan II. They went out of service in the 80s iirc. Modern ICBMs use solid fuel, which are much different
That's what's inside the bell, it's the injector plate.
http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-injector/f-1-injector-end-exploded-view.jpg
http://heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-injector.html