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2006-02-21 Science & Technology
New Bomb Drills for Bunkers
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Posted by 3dc 2006-02-21 04:27|| || Front Page|| [336065 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 sounds great dosnt it, but i'm not a fan of defence tech site, always seems to lean way to much toward the sceptical anti bush anti terror side of things,some of there articles seem like positve anti iraq war propaganda that saddam himself wouldhave been proud of! it has picked up though in last few months (maybe the guy writing it realised iraq wasnt a 'Quagmire!').
Posted by ShepUK 2006-02-21 06:19||   2006-02-21 06:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I have high school physics, but I do understand processes. There is no limit to how deep a process weapon could penetrate. Essentially, the problem is for the previous stage in the process to clear the way for the next stage in the process. Simplisticly you could view the process as progressively drilling a hole using a series of small explosions (which is how miners do it), until you reach the target's depth and then detonating the big bang. A UAV, if it had the payload capacity, could do this easily.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-02-21 07:23|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-02-21 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 It's the same drilling a big hole in steel, you start with a small drill bit, and follow with a larger drill bit, repeat until you have the size hole you want.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-02-21 08:34||   2006-02-21 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 or you collapse the exits and vents and let eveyone inside die a slow lingering death. Inshal'lah!
Posted by Frank G 2006-02-21 10:03||   2006-02-21 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Hope it doesn't go haywire.
Posted by eLarson 2006-02-21 10:13|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-02-21 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds a lot like something I postulated a couple of years ago. I was actually thinking about busting stuff that was buried, where the debris from the initial hit would refill the crater and protect the target from subsequent hits. To compensate for that effect, one hits the initial target a second time before the debris has a chance to fall back into the crater. To do this the initial charge has to be shaped in such a way as to protect a small path that it came in on. Think of those circus-type stunts where the magician stands in a box and blows it up around him, then walks out. Anyway, instantaneously after the first charge hits and detonates, blasting the first layer of protection away, a second charge hits in exactly the same place. It might even be tethered to the first charge to make sure it follows directly to the same target at a specified time delay. It is more important that it hit the same point than that the first charge hit any specific point. One could potentially chain a whole series of these charges together to keep knocking on the same spot until it was totally ablated.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2006-02-21 10:13||   2006-02-21 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 or you collapse the exits and vents and let eveyone inside die a slow lingering death.

Works for me. Wrecked equipment is real nice, but dead Iranian scientists are still jim dandy.
Posted by Zenster 2006-02-21 20:20||   2006-02-21 20:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting and I would guess it would be a lot like a sabot round for tanks. Or at least operate like one. A single round looking like a spear, with a disc 1/4 the way back. The disc is a shape charge and on impact blasts the tip of the spear forward. The rest of the spear follows directly behind and detonates.
Posted by 49 pan">49 pan  2006-02-21 20:50||   2006-02-21 20:50|| Front Page Top

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