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2011-09-19 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

UAV that can reach Iran to take flight by end of year

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Posted by 2011-09-19 00:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 That raises a very interesting question. While a typical bunker buster is carried by a C-130 or equivalent, the US innovated a completely new type of weapon, called deep digger, whose field test results (2006) were so superior, yet its technology so simple, that they shut up about it. Its tests showed even deeper penetration that with a nuclear bunker buster.

This suggests to me that the technology might be adapted by scale into smaller weapons, perhaps even small enough to be carried by a heavy lift UAV.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-19 09:17|| 2011-09-19 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 What would happen if you strung together a stack of EFPs, spaced apart at a 'tuning wavelength', such that the first one blasted a smallish hole, and before its debris could fall in the next one hit and blasted another smallish hole in the bottom of the first, and so on?

Posted by Glenmore 2011-09-19 19:11|| 2011-09-19 19:11|| Front Page Top

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