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Anon · 03-22-2006, 23:40 PM

Oh they'll work. A 1000kg object(The throw weight of a Minuteman III ICBM is 1150kg for comparative purposes) impacting at 3kps(mach 8.7@SL) would release 4.5 million megajoules(4,500 gigajoules) of energy on impact.

http://www.divine-salamis.com/phpBB/...c+conventional
Read my comments on the above link, they should be pretty educational to anyone interested in the subject of high velocity impacts.

03-22-2006, 23:40 PM	#23 (permalink)
Anon New Member Join Date: 08-03-03 Posts: 0	Oh they'll work. A 1000kg object(The throw weight of a Minuteman III ICBM is 1150kg for comparative purposes) impacting at 3kps(mach 8.7@SL) would release 4.5 million megajoules(4,500 gigajoules) of energy on impact. http://www.divine-salamis.com/phpBB/...c+conventional Read my comments on the above link, they should be pretty educational to anyone interested in the subject of high velocity impacts. Last edited by Anon : 03-22-2006 at 23:51 PM.