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This is an interesting question, given the latest ME flap over Syria and its ally Iran. Some of the discussion has focus on possible strikes against Iranian nuke facilities. How would you crack the bunker of these site with modern technology?
Kinetic Energy=(mass * velocity sq)/2
What we need is velocity with the right balance of mass. The penetrator will have to be extremely dense. Then there's a warhead to cause damage to the interior structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51
Thoughts?
This is an interesting question, given the latest ME flap over Syria and its ally Iran. Some of the discussion has focus on possible strikes against Iranian nuke facilities. How would you crack the bunker of these site with modern technology?
Kinetic Energy=(mass * velocity sq)/2
What we need is velocity with the right balance of mass. The penetrator will have to be extremely dense. Then there's a warhead to cause damage to the interior structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51
Thoughts?
If you can put enough bunker busters into one hole successively it should do the trick.
Of course if you can manage to get a good sized chunk of Tungsten and Depleted Uranium moving at Mach 5 or so that should also squish most spiders.
Well I think you would probably want to use some more old school bombs ahead of it to do that softening up work and then put the GBU or whatever they are called in the hole. I read somewhere that that can penetrate 100 feet of dirt or 20 feet of concrete before they detonate, so it will take some hole digging unless you can get a luck shot on a ventilation/elevator shaft I would guess.
It would probably be cheaper just to have the CIA payoff somebody to put a bomb in the place.
This is an interesting question, given the latest ME flap over Syria and its ally Iran. Some of the discussion has focus on possible strikes against Iranian nuke facilities. How would you crack the bunker of these site with modern technology?
Kinetic Energy=(mass * velocity sq)/2
What we need is velocity with the right balance of mass. The penetrator will have to be extremely dense. Then there's a warhead to cause damage to the interior structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51
Thoughts?
A mallet.
Technology is for chumps.
The solution was to take these massive navy battleship 16 inch gun barrels, fill them with high explosives, fit them with a depleted uranium nosecone and a global positioning system for precision guidance, and drop them on the bunkers from modified B-2 bombers.
Sorry, the gun to an Iowa class battleship weighs in at something like 200 tons. So pardon me if I call BS on this one.
The penetrator will have to be extremely dense
Sorry, the gun to an Iowa class battleship weighs in at something like 200 tons. So pardon me if I call BS on this one.
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