Posted on 07/14/2005 6:19:16 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Man, don't know how many MPH that thing would be going from a 30,000 foot drop, but I can't imagine a worse place than the end of that trajectory.
And what would happen if one was to cause a nuclear detonation by a sudden assembly of a nonspherical (shaped charge, like Pac-Man) supercritical mass? If it were possible to focus, say, 10-15% of explosion energy along the beam, one would get a bunker buster.
See my post earlier.
No need to quote what he says. Anytime someone from the Union of Confused Scientists is quoted, you know ahead of time that it will be against whatever weapon the US is proposing to develop.
OH BOY I wonder if this underground bunker has underground palace with movie theatre I HOPE so LOL! maybe we finally found out if Chia Pet has blackmail copy of Scarface and Team America
Union of Concerned Scientists == Union of Concerned Soviet Scientists
Y'know, if they got around to building a network of platforms in space that had automated payload delivery systems they could launch spent uranium projectiles with smart guidance systems and heat shields on them to slam into a precise target and keep going until it practically remelted in the earth's core. They use the kinetic priciple in the new starwar stuff, why not use it for underground targets as well? Any engineers or munition techs out there?
I think they are working on it. I think they are working on shield fragments which can protect warhead from excessive heat during an entry into atmosphere. I doubt that it is complete yet.
interesting, we certainly need this, most of the bunker busters we dropped on saddams hardened sites were ineffective.
I'd tape a beer cooler on the nose of the job with duct tape, or maybe the real expensive aluminum tape. Should do the trick, eh?
I read quite a few years back (in the 80's I believe) of a system concieved in the 1960's that involved positioning satellites with clusters of depleted uranium bolts about 9 feet long in orbit. They were concieved to be used against boost phase missile launches, and large land and sea targets.
Aluminum? I think it would burn like a torch during the entry.
Kudos to Lockheed Martin.
ROFL - By the time this thing makes it into production, we'll be able to bomb China from underneath...
Dang! I'm always about 40 years behind the curve. Well, I'm glad somebody got that one in the hat for consideration. Now if they'll only do it. Target the RAT convention in '08 for practice when they get it up and running.
Spent uranium has a specific gravity of 18.7 and the speed of an average meteorite is from 10 to 70 km/sec. Let's assume half of the lowest speed, so call it 5 km/sec. If a bolt is 6" in diameter and 9 feet long, then that's about 1.77 cubic feet. So, (1.77)X[(18.7)X(62.4)]=2,065 pounds for the projectile. That's about 1 ton traveling at a speed of 5,000 meters/second. I don't remember my physics well enough to calculate the force, but I do remember F=ma. Any physics folks know what force the projectile would hit the earth with?
This is what I imagine it would sorta look like: http://members.cox.net/deleyd2/deleytours/egg.jpg
How about putting some kinetic warheads on our extra ICBMs? ...or our SLBMs.
Ten tons of depleted Uranium and armor-piercing steel screaming in from space without any of the political issues that come from parking the warheads on a satellite.
Suits me fine.
Mecca proving grounds.
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