Hypersonic Cruise Missile

[LancerMc]

No nuclear weapons even mini ones were used during US operations in Iraq. The US did use new fuel air explosive (thermobaric) bunker bombs that are designed to take out underground structures and buildings. These weapons were designed impart damage to nuclear facilities. Though they have been mostly used to attack Taliban targets in Afghanistan.

Mini-nuclear weapons were an early idea of the Bush Administration to take out such nuclear and deep bunker facilities. The idea received so much bad press in America and internationally the program the last time I heard was at minimum funding or canceled all together. Too design a nuclear weapon to detonate at around .01 kilotons is extremely difficult and expensive from what I have read in articles from Popular Mechanics and others.

 

[Tasman]

No nuclear weapons even mini ones were used during US operations in Iraq. The US did use new fuel air explosive (thermobaric) bunker bombs that are designed to take out underground structures and buildings. These weapons were designed impart damage to nuclear facilities. Though they have been mostly used to attack Taliban targets in Afghanistan.

Mini-nuclear weapons were an early idea of the Bush Administration to take out such nuclear and deep bunker facilities. The idea received so much bad press in America and internationally the program the last time I heard was at minimum funding or canceled all together. Too design a nuclear weapon to detonate at around .01 kilotons is extremely difficult and expensive from what I have read in articles from Popular Mechanics and others.

Thanks for that info. Maybe Sam-9 was thinking about thermobaric bombs.

Cheers

 

[dioditto]

Launched from a B-52, the proposed X-51 hypersonic cruise missile could travel 600 miles in 10 minutes to strike elusive, fleeting targets.
65-ton Trident II ballistic missile into the sky. Within 2 minutes, the missile is traveling at more than 20,000 ft. per second. A must seeeeeee :jump2

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4203874.html

This is a double post, I have already posted this in Defense Tech forum 2 weeks ago.
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5707

 

[gf0012-aust]

Posts merged.

This is a double post, I have already posted this in Defense Tech forum 2 weeks ago.
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5707

 

[Sam-9]

what are you wanting to discuss?

• viability
• relevance
• employment/deployment
• implications

etc etc etc.................

all of the obove

 

[Sam-9]

Bunker Buster and Mini-Nukes

What is your source for this information? Are you saying that bunker busting nukes have been tested in Iraq and Afghanistan or are you referring to hypersonic cruise missiles being tested in those places?

I find it hard to believe that any nuclear weapons would have been used in either country without an international outcry. The UN searched for and failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and any sort of nuclear device would have been a major find. If the suggestion is that the USA tested the use of these weapons in Iraq or the USA or USSR tested them in Afghanistan I would be incredulous! nfloorl:

Cheers

In the Iraq War, there were indications that Saddam Hussein had created many underground bunkers to hide in, or to store items that he does not want others to see. These underground bunkers are found in a wide variety of places from the middle of the desert to under large buildings in the middle of cities. These bunkers are covered with concrete and are well protected against military attack. The regime thought that it would be able to save itself from attack with bunkers like this, until engineers invented the “Bunker Buster”, during the Afghanistan War in 2001-02.

The “Bunker Buster” is designed to "bust" into these bunkers. The weapon works by burrowing into the ground and then blowing up, supposedly without having any major impact on the life on top of the soil. Mini-nukes can be placed inside some of these bunker buster bombs. According to the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the producer of this type of bomb, the weapon can punch through 35 feet of reinforced concrete. This bomb definitely has the capability to destroy a bunker, but there are many questions that have to be investigated when using a nuclear bomb and a burrowing weapon. Building a better bomb In May 2003,ummmm lets see building a better bomb i wonder why and on top of it all, the U.S.A did use depleted uranium ammunition.....................

Troops show uranium sickness signs, claims expert
June 23 2003http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/23/1056220529069.html
this is better = http://www.thefourreasons.org/duresources.htm


well i wont go any fuerther then i have in this subject so read it your self do some reserch,

 

[gf0012-aust]

well i wont go any fuerther then i have in this subject so read it your self do some reserch,

If you're making claims then its encumbent on you to provide data to the others. Thats how forums work.

Its not up to other posters to do your homework.

make a claim, show the evidence, debate the logic. there are some in here who are more than familiar with aero and fluid dynamics for missiles - you've got to convince them about the sense and logic of a claim.

 

[Turk]

only word incrediable.