Then it dawned on me: Aluminum ignites at 1,400 deg F.
When one of these hits the aluminum superstructure of a modern warship at Mach 3.5, that warhead is there to just ignite the vaporized aluminum.
It may be a revolution in anti-ship missiles.
Playing ‘catch up with China’ again are we?
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i dont know much about military warfare and technology, but it seems like a major war between major powers would be over a lot faster than WWII.
so many hi tech weapons to take out so many ships and jets and ground artillery so quickly.
i wonder just how many war ships and jets there are combined, in the world.
The Russian Yakhont ...
The supersonic P-800 Yakhont (Gem) is a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr [SS-N-7 Starbright]. The Yakhont missile has a range of 300 kilometers, the capacity to carry a 200-kilogram warhead and the unique ability of being able to cruise several meters above the water surface, making it difficult to detect and intercept.
We have supersonic ships?
What country has supersonic ships?
Supersonic depleted uranium perpetrator going straight down would punch a hole clean thru.
Davy Jones does the rest.
“It took me a while to figure out how they were going to make a missile with a 137lb warhead a ship killer. “
Well, if it’s 137 lbs of Plutonium, I think no problem.
Sounds good.
Also, as crazy as it sounds, I think we need to develop some sort of jet pack not too far removed from something out of Lost in Space but actually a serious effort at new technology, where our special forces in the Navy or Marines as part of their own operative unit(s) have the ability to literally fly across the top of the ground, with the ability to cut in and out of trees at slow speed then faster and the unit they wear as the pack can only launch using a finger print security. This is totally science fiction stuff, I know, but it is coming.
The Chinese are on their way to developing fusion. What if they were able to make a fusion bomb. Think about that.
The enemy islamist in the White House is actually allowing this?
For use against yachts?...
Exactly what I have been telling the "CIWS rules" idiots for years here. Mach 3+ buckshot on an aluminum superstructure means you are dead.
Yeah, you hit it, now what about that load of shrapnel coming at you?
Hello, barbarians! Please, come right through the gate. Make yourselves at home. Stay as long as you like. Yes, dig right in. Oh, don’t mind the natives. They won’t resist for long. Flail away, ha, ha! Say, allow me to show you this great anti-ship missile we’re developing to punish anyone who crosses us one day. Woah, hey! Watch what you do with that axe! You nearly split my head open!
The warhead on the Exocet that sunk the Sheffield didn’t detonate.
This is a major deal, we’ve only had subsonic harpoons for 40 something years.
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