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The II and III are liquid-fueled devices; a
ballute (which also serves as a torroidal float) slows the decent of the device, which ignites once it hits the water, emitting an 80-ft flame for approximately 45 seconds.
An explicit nonlinear finite element code, DYNA3D, has been performed for wrinkling phenomena of a modeled
ballute system [10].
In some of the designs, the inflatable shell would trail the payload as a '
ballute', a mixture between a balloon and a parachute.
The Secc could be launched from a submarine's Trident tubes or dropped from an aircraft and slowed by a
ballute and parachute prior to aerofoil-extension.