nuke@sh.itjust.worksM to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoWhy don't we simply fling our decommissioned warships at our enemies? Are we stupid?i.imgur.comvideomessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1439arrow-down16
arrow-up1433arrow-down1videoWhy don't we simply fling our decommissioned warships at our enemies? Are we stupid?i.imgur.comnuke@sh.itjust.worksM to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squareCookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoSo let’s you want to yeet this over 1000km from a NATO country to Moscow. You’d need at least 3000 m/s of velocity to do this (a ton more since this without air resistance). A fletcher class destroyer is around 2000 tons. So you’d need more than 8 terajoules or 2 kilotons of TNT.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months ago You’d need at least 3000 m/s of velocity to do this (a ton more since this without air resistance). Sounds pretty doable with enough boosters and struts. Pretty sure I’ve flung worse in KSP
So let’s you want to yeet this over 1000km from a NATO country to Moscow.
You’d need at least 3000 m/s of velocity to do this (a ton more since this without air resistance).
A fletcher class destroyer is around 2000 tons.
So you’d need more than 8 terajoules or 2 kilotons of TNT.
Sounds pretty doable with enough boosters and struts. Pretty sure I’ve flung worse in KSP