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Old 16th February 2013, 12:30 PM   #490
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Originally Posted by marplots View Post
I would like to point out that most of a missile, by the time it reaches the target, is hollow. The tube can also be made of aluminum. This isn't rocket science... or maybe it is.
The penetrating warhead is capable of punching through hardened bunkers and weighs 900 lbs and measures 12x60 inches.

the gouge in the below image is in a column measuring 14 inches. Based on the column size, that gouge looks to be about 12 inches wide, which means it could easily have been caused by a dense metal penetrating warhead of the same diameter.



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The warhead concept was a 1000 pound dense or ballasted penetrator. The warhead would either be designed with a dense metal case or contain dense metal ballast for maximum penetration. The warhead would be filled with advanced insensitive explosive to compensate for the reduced charge weight. This concept used the Hard Target Smart Fuze (HTSF), an accelerometer based electronic fuze, which would allow control of the detonation point by layer counting, distance or time. The accelerometer senses G loads on the bomb due to deceleration as it penetrates through to the target. The fuze can distinguish between earth, concrete, rock and air.
http://www.dyess.af.mil/library/fact...t.asp?id=17954
Lookie here - more 12 inch gouges:
http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...-closeup-1.png

Edited by LashL:  Changed oversized image to link, as overly large images mess with the formatting of the thread.

Last edited by LashL; 16th February 2013 at 01:09 PM.
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