re: B61-11

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re: B61-11

Vince — 4/15/2006 2:07:49 PM (archived)

The B61-11 has been around for almost a decade....

A nuclear EPW such as the B61-11 can only penetrate 2-3m but even a shallow underground nuclear explosion produces an intense and damaging seismic shock.
Depending on the rock type, this could potentially crush a bunker at about 70 metres depth.
But the missiles cannot penetrate deeply enough for the radioactive fallout to be contained.

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Regards, Vince

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UCS on nuclear bunker-busting - et - 4/14/2006 6:51:24 PM
- re: B61-11 - Vince - 4/15/2006 2:07:49 PM
- Well I sure hope this guy understands what fallout could do! - Buck Galaxy - 4/15/2006 8:27:13 AM
  - re: Well I sure hope this guy understands what fallout could do! - SDF - 4/15/2006 2:34:43 PM
- When you guys have finished with the foul language, can we have this on CE, please? (n/t) - nick hoffman - 4/15/2006 3:40:54 AM
  - *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - ModBob - 4/15/2006 8:57:19 PM
    - re: *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - nick hoffman - 4/16/2006 12:40:53 PM
      - I agree - Move to Flame - Buck Galaxy - 4/16/2006 5:52:21 PM
      - re: *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - ModBob - 4/16/2006 4:28:52 PM
        
        re: *Nick, why do you feel this is off topic? - nick hoffman - 4/17/2006 3:09:27 PM
        
        Talking of precedents - nick hoffman - 4/17/2006 3:16:28 PM
        
        Talking. - et - 4/17/2006 9:17:25 PM
        
        Sometimes breaking an egg is a good thing - SteveS - 4/17/2006 5:45:07 PM
        
        "Sometimes, people make idiotic claims... I think it is fair to point this out... sometimes I think it is fair to point this out rather harshly." - Buck Galaxy - 4/16/2006 5:50:57 PM
        
        Oh, I wish.... - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:05:29 PM
        
        Now there's a concept - SteveS - 4/16/2006 5:37:51 PM
  - I think this is on-topic.... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:26:29 AM
    - It can power Orion, so it is on topic. - Lee - 4/16/2006 8:26:21 AM
    - I think so too - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 4:53:26 AM
      - **Politics, in regard to space/science, is on topic** - ModBob - 4/16/2006 5:43:14 AM
        
        BEHOLD ALL!!! The psycological Klein bottle!! (n/t) - Excellent Therapist - 4/16/2006 6:58:54 AM
        
        I will spend all night awake wondering what you meant - R.L. - 4/16/2006 7:10:50 AM
        
        I know what it means... - Tom Brosz - 4/16/2006 8:54:30 PM
  - Pardon the language please Nick. - et - 4/15/2006 4:14:34 AM
- Are they stupid or what? - Lee - 4/14/2006 7:17:08 PM
  - yes Lee, we know you could give a shit about brown people. - et - 4/14/2006 7:31:39 PM
    - Lee has a point. - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2006 10:10:33 PM
      - Sure, if you're an effin idiot. (how's that MB?) - et - 4/15/2006 12:17:00 AM
        
        Surprisingly reserved... ;) (n/t) - ModBob - 4/15/2006 4:41:29 AM
        
        The bunker buster is by it's very nature a subsurface device. - Lee - 4/15/2006 12:23:10 AM
        
        Your ignorance is astounding - R.L. - 4/15/2006 5:37:00 AM
        
        re: ignorance - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 6:10:42 AM
        
        re: ignorance - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:18:27 AM
        
        Just to try and keep things real... - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 6:42:41 AM
        
        re: Just to try and keep things real... - et - 4/15/2006 5:10:29 PM
        
        Tom, I dont think we are seriously thinking about using nukes on Iran... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:47:42 AM
        
        You're a distinct minority, then. - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 7:22:42 AM
        
        I really don't think so.... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 9:22:50 PM
        
        You might have misunderstood - Tom Brosz - 4/15/2006 11:14:43 PM
        
        Seriously, Tom - R.L. - 4/15/2006 11:51:23 PM
        
        Speaking of an effing idiot.... - end transmission - 4/15/2006 2:18:24 AM
        
        20 feet? - Lee - 4/15/2006 4:49:50 AM
        
        Hell of a difference, Lee - nick hoffman - 4/16/2006 12:35:29 PM
        
        Now that was a proper reply. - Lee - 4/16/2006 4:39:41 PM
        
        No, et is correct, and you are an idiot.... - R.L. - 4/15/2006 6:14:15 AM
        
        Idiots are people unable to articulate an argument, - Lee - 4/15/2006 9:12:04 AM
        
        If you have a complaint take it to Commmunity - ModBob - 4/15/2006 7:30:07 PM
        
        Lee, you made a stupid claim, and you were called on it - R.L. - 4/15/2006 7:12:23 PM
        
        And the obligitory wikipedia article. - et - 4/15/2006 5:40:20 AM
        
        It's a bunker buster. - Lee - 4/15/2006 9:14:49 AM
        
        And here's a more "nuclear" specific source that claims 10 yards. - et - 4/15/2006 5:30:14 AM
        
        More than 20 =)~ (n/t) - Lee - 4/15/2006 9:06:20 AM
        
        30 feet, do you think it makes a difference to a megaton bomb?! (n/t) - R.L. - 4/15/2006 7:36:46 PM
        
        Ever hear of shaped charge warheads? - Lee - 4/16/2006 1:07:05 AM
        
        LOL!!! - R.L. - 4/16/2006 1:12:11 AM
        
        From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - Lee - 4/16/2006 1:43:20 AM
        
        re: From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:19:38 AM
        
        re: From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - gbaikie - 4/16/2006 7:28:04 AM
        
        re: From the looks of it, it's going to be an either/or situation. - R.L. - 4/16/2006 2:33:39 PM
        
        Tora Bora was hit by a thermobaric weapon. - Lee - 4/16/2006 8:42:37 AM
        
        By MOAB I meant the conventional bomb (n/t) - R.L. - 4/16/2006 4:21:40 AM
        
        20 feet of concrete. - et - 4/15/2006 5:24:44 AM
    - **Mind the language, et** (n/t) - ModBob - 4/14/2006 9:41:03 PM
      - re: **Mind the language, et** - ModBob - 4/14/2006 10:06:17 PM

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