Comments on: Supercavitation-alisticexpealidocious

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:45:39 +0000

Along the lines of bunkerbuster. I would think it would be more effective to use, say a 48,000 lb projectile similar to the MOP only attached to an ICBM instead. greater speed and mass

By: dennymack

dennymack — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:50:53 +0000

We will know they are onto us when they pile up a 50 ft. layer of bubblegum over the site. Or maybe peanut butter.
Or if they are worried about rodents (or their starving people) eating the edible armor, they could use layers of aramid fibers and something stretchy, with air gaps and corrugation. Anything to get the penetrator tipped off of its axis.
I hope these guys have an equally genius team working on sounter measures. I am sure the targets do.
Dennymack

By: Rom Gold

Rom Gold — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:43:38 +0000

Rom Gold which I have spent much more in this game it is necessary.

By: Novihirsk

Novihirsk — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:54:15 +0000

We as Russian must consider to sell Iran, India and China. New weapons like the Shkval and a lot more weapons too. Thank You

By: Wadim

Wadim — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:07:44 +0000

This very GooD idea IMHO :)

By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:14:10 +0000

Thinking about this an hour further, yesterday–
1. The optimal general spike would be slightly rounded so that as the wake separates from the tip the remaining blunt of the spike is out of the path of injecta and ejecta,– but until it does separate, tip curvature remains blunt.
2. A bunker solution:– a foot-thick mattress of styrofoam-embedded depleted-uranium blunt-tipped counter-spikes, buried sub-surface in layers, to destroy incoming bunkerbusters … the styrofoam (very-low-density; ceramic foam at great depths) offers virtually no shockwave, thus allowing the counter-spikes to penetrate straight “up” .…
3. Some of the explanations deserve further work: In the case of the water spike, eg. Shkval, where its medium is uncompressed (lowish velocity), the wake and vapor go supersonic passing the vehicle. Apparently that offers less resistance, as such,- but it factors-in new-theoretic dynamics regimes: Maybe they should apply coke-bottle area-shaping.
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4. I wished those charts plotted area not radius.
PS. Spell “supercavi[t]ation”, please.
Ray.

By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:54:12 +0000

Also, –before leaving this discussion,- It seems to me that canted plates of depleted-uranium over a bunker would throw a buster off target.
Likewise underwater, a sonic burster from offside a submarine might change the hydroscopic pressure sufficiently to break the cavitation symmetry.…
Ray.

By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:18:41 +0000

So,– Why don’t supersonic jets have flat noses to create an ablation bubble … at-least usable in emergency-escape mode …?
Ray.

By: Durex

Durex — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:17:49 +0000

Not rubber. I think it is latex that is best suited for an optimal penetration.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:59:33 +0000

Better get some protection — I bet it wouldn’t do so well if it had to penetrate rubber.