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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
...Purely a kinetic energy projectile, it has no explosives or anything, no "warhead". Pretty amazing stuff.
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Back late in the last century, or maybe early in this one, some brainiacs figured that if you take a x00 pound warhead from a Trident SLBM and simply fill it with concrete, it'll still make one heck of a whack at whatever you hit at Mach 10+.
Cute idea, but maybe a bad choice (I don't think, or know if, we're doing this). It's like a world-scale level of something out of a Dirty Harry movie - Gorsh, was that a nuke or a tactical/kinetic thing that we just launched? In all of the excitement I kind of lost track...
Amusing concept though. I believe we've all reached treaties or at least "gentleman's agreements" that we won't nucularize space - but lobbing 500 pound things at reentry speeds at a moment's notice could be (understatment) amusing.