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Post by fenrin49 on Mar 1, 2017 4:21:18 GMT
I'm thinking throwing fusile hollow slugs or rods (possibly mechanical hammer and anvil with fusile between) that squish into critical mass on the surface or inside the enemy armour and go kabboom. Explosive lens based designs would be a lot more efficient in terms of fusile mass used but this could be rather cheap - sometimes the explosives get expensive. Plus detonating directly on or slightly below the surface of the armour would be incredibly powerful. Just a fun crazy idea that is probably beyond coade but what do you think?
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 1, 2017 14:48:40 GMT
you cannot create critical mass by throwing fusiles at each other, fusiles don't have critical mass, you meant fissiles, this is how (basically) the Little Boy bomb worked
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Post by fenrin49 on Mar 1, 2017 15:56:15 GMT
Excuse me thanks for that - I'll fix later but yes that's what I meant.
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 2, 2017 11:35:27 GMT
you cannot create critical mass by throwing fusiles at each other, fusiles don't have critical mass, you meant fissiles, this is how (basically) the Little Boy bomb worked I am on a vacation in Japan and Little Boy sounds horrifying.
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 2, 2017 11:58:45 GMT
you cannot create critical mass by throwing fusiles at each other, fusiles don't have critical mass, you meant fissiles, this is how (basically) the Little Boy bomb worked I am on a vacation in Japan and Little Boy sounds horrifying. O come on little boy was ONLY 16kt, the Largest american bomb was the B41 at 25Mt and the largest soviet bomb was the tsar bomba at 100Mt, why when compared to those its a... little boy!
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 2, 2017 12:18:49 GMT
I am on a vacation in Japan and Little Boy sounds horrifying. O come on little boy was ONLY 16kt, the Largest american bomb was the B41 at 25Mt and the largest soviet bomb was the tsar bomba at 100Mt, why when compared to those its a... little boy! Well, that Little Boy killed more than Tsar Bomba.
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 2, 2017 12:26:22 GMT
O come on little boy was ONLY 16kt, the Largest american bomb was the B41 at 25Mt and the largest soviet bomb was the tsar bomba at 100Mt, why when compared to those its a... little boy! Well, that Little Boy killed more than Tsar Bomba. Tsar bomba flattened a village... 55km away All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 km (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero wooden houses were destroyed, stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors, and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 kilometres (170 mi). The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns 100 km (62 mi) away from ground zero. A shock wave was observed in the air at Dikson settlement 700 km (430 mi) away; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi).[23] Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage at even greater distances, breaking windows in Norway and Finland. Despite being detonated 4.2 km above ground, its seismic body wave magnitude was estimated at 5–5.25.[9][20] Sensors continued to identify the shockwaves after their third trip around the world.
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Post by bdcarrillo on Mar 2, 2017 14:13:58 GMT
I'm thinking throwing fusile hollow slugs or rods (possibly mechanical hammer and anvil with fusile between) that squish into critical mass on the surface or inside the enemy armour and go kabboom. Explosive lens based designs would be a lot more efficient in terms of fusile mass used but this could be rather cheap - sometimes the explosives get expensive. Plus detonating directly on or slightly below the surface of the armour would be incredibly powerful. Just a fun crazy idea that is probably beyond coade but what do you think? Well if you miss with these, you have zero effect, whereas a normal explosive driven nuke that misses would at least cause flash damage. I'm not familiar at all with the math, but it would probably be a good idea to look at the KE required to initiate a normal nuke, and see how much mass you'd have to send downrange and at what speed. Just that napkin math may invalidate the idea as impractical
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 2, 2017 14:36:13 GMT
I mean, given enough fluorine and hydrogen you can get the fissile going fast enough
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Post by bdcarrillo on Mar 2, 2017 15:19:01 GMT
I mean, given enough fluorine and hydrogen you can get the fissile going fast enough At some point that would be more expensive than a regular explosion triggered nuke. Just wondering where that point is
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Post by ross128 on Mar 2, 2017 20:56:50 GMT
Theoretically a gun-type nuke should be trivial to impact-detonate. Though it'd be a terribly weak nuke for its mass and fusion boosting would be right out.
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Post by lawson on Mar 3, 2017 8:05:14 GMT
I'd love to try this on >100Km/s rail-guns. Should be able to get a hell of a lot of compression, probably still hard to form a super-critical mass with 1-2 grams of fissiles though
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Post by matterbeam on Mar 30, 2017 12:10:29 GMT
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