Everything you ever wanted to know about bunker busters is here."Meet Deep Digger, first of a revolutionary new generation of bunker-busting weapons, described in this week’s New Scientist. This is literally ground-breaking new technology which uses cannon to tunnel through solid rock, drilling a channel for the bomb.Way too cool.....and it makes a hole in the shape of a Magen David. Oh, the irony.
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Deep Digger is different. It does not depend on the kinetic energy of the warhead at all – in fact, it parachutes down. Then it stars drilling. The weapon is limited only by how deep the drilling process can go, which is a matter of how deep it can ‘muck’ (clear debris from the shaft). And although the details are classified, that is much, much deeper than any kinetic weapon will ever go. In the tests last year, it demonstrated a tunneled down ten meters -- about 50% more than the BLU-113, which is the current record holder."
NB: I may not be online again until Sunday night. One of those, "Phibian, what do you have on your calendar..." 10 lbs of crap in a 3 lb bag...... Anyway, check back now and then to see if I sneak one in.....but here is something tactical to talk about.
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