To: MARKUSPRIME
Uh... how do you deliver 700 tons? Strikes me as rather a lot to carry?
11 posted on
03/30/2006 8:57:02 AM PST by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
21 posted on
03/30/2006 8:58:30 AM PST by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: Ramius
You beat me to it. Sounds BS to me. Actually 2000 lbs makes a pretty good mushroom.
22 posted on
03/30/2006 8:58:35 AM PST by
U S Army EOD
(LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS STATE CHAMPIONS)
To: Ramius
how do you deliver 700 tons? - hope for a long fuse and run really fast
To: Ramius
Uh... how do you deliver 700 tons?With a 700 ton delivery truck, silly. I agree, they should use a nuke. Easy to deliver, and multi-megaton yield.
To: Ramius
I think 700 tonnes is the yield of the weapon -- equivalent to 700 tonnes of TNT. BTW, a tonne is metric and equals ~2200 pounds. The yield of the weapon is thus about 770 tons.
30 posted on
03/30/2006 9:00:48 AM PST by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: Ramius
The nuclear equivalent of a 700 ton conventional explosion would be fairly light. A B-2 could carry several I think.
To: Ramius
Uh... how do you deliver 700 tons? Strikes me as rather a lot to carry?
Yes it is a lot. But, damn it all, if Michael Moore's mom can carry and deliver 700 tons then by God so can our military!
To: Ramius
Uh... how do you deliver 700 tons? Strikes me as rather a lot to carry? It's not quite as much, but a C-5 can carry 130 tons. But it would be a hell of a thing to get it to airdrop that.
To: Ramius
tow it behind the entire inventory of B2's?
96 posted on
03/30/2006 9:51:16 AM PST by
rahbert
To: Ramius
....how do you deliver 700 tons?.....
simple..... load it into 35 forty foot containers.
99 posted on
03/30/2006 10:02:55 AM PST by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
To: Ramius
Explosive power (equivalent to tons of TNT)
Not the actual weight.
To: Ramius
Uh... how do you deliver 700 tons? Strikes me as rather a lot to carry? It will have to go by train, a long one.
That is ton equivelant rather than real tons. They speak of explosives in relationship to tons of TNT but they don't use TNT.
If you knew that and were being sarcastic forgive me for missing it.
143 posted on
03/31/2006 5:27:21 AM PST by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: Ramius
Uh... how do you deliver 700 tons? Don't know. 350 tons in each hand? ;~))
I wonder if the 700 ton refers to explosive force in TNT equivalent like the do with nuclear weapons --- i.e. 20k tons of TNT? Maybe they have a new explosive compound.
148 posted on
03/31/2006 7:21:59 AM PST by
Ditto
To: Ramius
I am sure the whole idea is to test the effectiveness of a small tactical nuke, without actually detonating a nuke. Trying do deliver 700 tons of conventional explosives to a target deep in enemy territory is not possible.
149 posted on
03/31/2006 8:32:00 AM PST by
ol painless
(ol' painless is out of the bag)
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