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Post by redparadize on Oct 23, 2016 20:40:12 GMT
In term of performance/cost/weight balance. Thats the best I have so far:  |
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Post by redparadize on Oct 23, 2016 21:23:49 GMT
Anyone have anything good in the 250kt to 500kt range ?
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Post by Durandal on Oct 23, 2016 21:47:26 GMT
I did an experiment today with a 3kt missile with two 10x12 pills of Beryllium Oxide topped by a 12x14 pill of Tungston. See attachment. Attachment DeletedDetonation range was set to 100 m. The results were inconclusive. Most of the missiles seemed to punch through as KKVs, but a handful seemed to detonate resulting in a small pinhole on one side of the target and a massive "blowout" on the other. Blowout as in most of the opposite side of the hull was just gone with all modules in the area destroyed. Not sure this is from the a missile "tumbling" while inside the hull or if it's an actual effect from the detonation. Hopefully qswitched can resolve the fuzing issues soon. |
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Post by ross128 on Oct 23, 2016 22:21:40 GMT
Hmm, interesting. It would be useful to do a side-by-side comparison to see if the BeOx filler actually enhances the lethality compared to a simple Tungsten cap.
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Post by dwwolf on Oct 24, 2016 11:30:37 GMT
Anyone have anything good in the 250kt to 500kt range ? My 106 kt nuke weighs about 138 kg. 200kt weighs about 180~190 kg. Its fairly easily upscaled. Ill post the text tonight. |
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Post by someusername6 on Oct 28, 2016 1:30:12 GMT
I just found a really *cheap* micro nuke. 95t in 513g for only 32.9c!  |
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Post by someusername6 on Oct 28, 2016 1:55:47 GMT
And here's a submission for the ~500kt yield class.  |
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Post by dragonkid11 on Oct 28, 2016 10:46:14 GMT
Ya know what would be nice?
Being able to surround the nuke with a layer of high heat resistant material so that it can actually become a super fragmentation round.
That would be neat.
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Post by thorneel on Oct 28, 2016 18:31:43 GMT
Ya know what would be nice? Being able to surround the nuke with a layer of high heat resistant material so that it can actually become a super fragmentation round. That would be neat. Would it help increase maximum booster pressure? |
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Post by captinjoehenry on Oct 28, 2016 19:31:26 GMT
Anyone had any luck in making over 10 megaton yield nukes? Because as it stands there is a very very rapid increase in mass as soon as you start pushing much above 1 megaton yield nuke going from around 200kg for a 1 megaton nuke to 24,000 kg for a 10.2 megaton nuke. So I really don't consider it worthwhile to make nukes much over 1 megaton and that is a bit limiting in a few ways.
So has anyone gotten any sort of high yield nukes?
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Post by lawson on Oct 28, 2016 19:51:17 GMT
Ya know what would be nice? Being able to surround the nuke with a layer of high heat resistant material so that it can actually become a super fragmentation round. That would be neat. I think you can manually do this with a partial band of armor around the nuke. I base this on reports of a few people working on nuke driven projectiles that have reported success using armor layers instead of a radiation shield. |
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Post by someusername6 on Oct 28, 2016 19:56:55 GMT
Anyone had any luck in making over 10 megaton yield nukes? Because as it stands there is a very very rapid increase in mass as soon as you start pushing much above 1 megaton yield nuke going from around 200kg for a 1 megaton nuke to 24,000 kg for a 10.2 megaton nuke. So I really don't consider it worthwhile to make nukes much over 1 megaton and that is a bit limiting in a few ways. So has anyone gotten any sort of high yield nukes? No luck going above those values, no. I reach those values by getting the core mass up to 1t, and then adding as much fusion fuel density as possible before the assembly breaks due to fusion fuel pressure stress. I suspect you'd need a larger core mass to go above this yield. |
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Post by hal on Oct 28, 2016 20:19:38 GMT
Anyone had any luck in making over 10 megaton yield nukes? Because as it stands there is a very very rapid increase in mass as soon as you start pushing much above 1 megaton yield nuke going from around 200kg for a 1 megaton nuke to 24,000 kg for a 10.2 megaton nuke. So I really don't consider it worthwhile to make nukes much over 1 megaton and that is a bit limiting in a few ways. So has anyone gotten any sort of high yield nukes? Here's something I got after altering my old now-broken multi-gigaton nuke somewhat:  It's lighter than the stock 2.03Mt nuke, but the cost is obviously horrendous. I'll keep fiddling with it to see if I can fix that. |
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Post by someusername6 on Oct 28, 2016 20:21:34 GMT
That said, here's my current lightest design for a 10.1 Mt yield, at 3.83 t -- let me know if you find a lighter one.  Edit: Well, someone did (above this post). |
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Post by targetx on Oct 29, 2016 13:27:06 GMT
I did an experiment today with a 3kt missile with two 10x12 pills of Beryllium Oxide topped by a 12x14 pill of Tungston. See attachment. <snip> I can see what you're going for, nuke shaped charge, but wasn't this for the Orion system? So it turned the titanium into plasma which by the time it had hit the pusher plate, was cooled again, so it wouldnt do damage/ablate the plate? |
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