Want to get into the NEFP game, no idea how to shrink nukes

I use these two for quite a long time now. Can't take credit though, those are based on designs from the forum.

Has anyone tried NEFP with kiloton range nukes?

You might try the following thread, at least it's 9 pages instead of 34.  Although you might want to skip the first half dozen pages, back when you could cram fusion fuel in at 20000 kg/m^3.

9 page pocket nukes thread

The following are my two preferred mini-nukes, the first for cost and the second for size.

Of what weight ?

Nuke weights tend to be in certain islands of efficiency after which weight seems to go up for not much benefit.

I'd like to see something conclusive indicating that NEFPs actually work in the game. I haven't been able to make a working NEFP design myself, but if anyone who thinks they have wants to take the time and do some science, here's what I would do:

- Do a control run without the penetrator pancake. See if the damage can be accounted for by just the nuke.
- If any sort of chemical explosive is present in the pancake, do a control run without the nuke. A non-nuclear missile with a tiny explosive payload will happily create quite a hole just from the kinetic energy of the missile fragmenting. They can be very damaging and the result may resemble NEFP damage. See if this doesn't account for the damage.

If these two tests don't cause the same sort of damage (massive penetration) as the full EFP weapon, I'd think at this point it'd be pretty well shown to work. Maybe someone has already done similar things.

zorbeltuss.