Could you use the same principle behind MIRV for ABM system.>Have a missile carry more missile toward the target
>>65138152they already do
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>>65138152Sort of? It's been kind of done but your pK drops mucho. You have to assume a denied EW environment if the birds are out of the coop and the tacair platform in that situation can only provide vague confirmations on point of origin and relative position to target in that situation. That's why our nato sharing is still mostly B-61s
You can but the ballistic missile will have to be twice as big to accommodate smart guided warheadsMIRV missiles can only fit unguided ballistic guided warheadsThe missile bus that holds the warheads guides itself in a ballistic trajectory towards a target and release the unguided warheads towards their targetThe warheads themselves being unguided makes accuracy within reportedly 100m CEP. Suited for town sized targets but not mobile ship targets
Isn't the upgraded GBI going to have multiple interceptors or am i hallucinating?
Learn to read, anons>>65138837No, you're probably misremembering multiple rocket stages which it will have>>65138152>Could you use the same principle behind MIRV for ABM systemLearn to write, ESLAnswer is no (for now) because it's not possible to intercept separate MIRVs, and ballistic missiles will usually be spaced too far out for the multiple interceptors to reach separate targets
For me, it's the Christofilos Effect and Project West Ford.>Let's make an artificial ionosphere using a bazillion copper needles in space >Wonder what happens when we nuke it?
>>65138435>webm that you can hear
>>65139472>hey guys what if we just launched a bunch of copper wire into spaceThey really were just greenlighting everything back then, weren't they?
>>65139738Who says they stopped?
>>65138152Asking for a friend. How much does a 1-5Mt MIRV weigh? Can it be strapped to your back?
If it's conventional, it weighs 1.5 million tons.
iirc, the UK's Starstreak SAM system uses multiple submunitions to intercept its target
>>65141078Probably at least a few hundred pounds. A B-61 with the casing is around 700ish, and that's 400kt
How come ballistic missiles don't just save some fuel in the tank for a terminal phase sprint? To intercept them you need to meet them at the right place and time, and messing with the time component in a manner like that seems way easier than tackling the challenges associated with hypersonic maneuvering.
>>65141078>1-5Mt MIRVnot a thing, the biggest ones are 800kt warheads weighing a few hundred kilos
>>65142329>>65142373So, you can’t lug it around can you?
>>65143060no, the smallest nuke ever made, the Davy Crockett warhead with the power of 20 tons of tnt weighing only 50 pounds total. there are SADM warheads that are bigger and more powerful but still one man portable or 155mm nuke shells but that's about it.
>>65139738They don't come out and say they nuked it, but SURE seems like they did. There was probably quite a bit of it still floating around up there prior to Operation Fishbowl, and at least one shot during Argus was dedicated to testing the Cristofilos Effect (with success). I think we still utilize it for (((other))) things ABM related.
>>65143404For shits and giggles about how much does the physics package of the Tsar weigh?
>>65143911Enough that it absolutely HAD to be dropped by a heavily modified Tu-95.
>>65143982The size of the pkg was about that of a 75in tv and rumored to weigh a little bit over a ton. So, probably something like 800lbs. of uranium
>>65138487>The warheads themselves being unguided makes accuracy within reportedly 100m CEP. Suited for town sized targets but not mobile ship targetsThe problem isn't CEP, it's that a ship can move too far in the flight time to make it practicable without mid-flight targetting data and probably more course authority than RVs have right now. 100m CEP is plenty for a ship when you have 8 bites at the apple and each bite is 450kt. My napkin maths says you can use that to net a kill on any ship at all (ie a battleship grade target) in a roughly 12km wide circle. The problem is that the flight time of an ICBM means that by the time the warheads arrive, the ship could be anywhere in a roughly 50km wide circle centered on where it was when you launched. So like, 10% pK with no mid course targetting updates.
>>65144103>10%I meant 5%. Brain fart.
>>65144041>So, probably something like 800lbs. of uraniumHuh? Why would it have that much uranium?
>>65144115Or plutonium? Fuck, largest nuke ever made had a shitload of something
>>65144183Lurk moar newfriend. You don't need more fissile material to make a bigger nuke.
>>65144209Be nice to have a cutaway of it
>>65140142heh, also thought of that from armored core for answers opening immediately
>>65144103It's not quite a circle if the ship is moving at the time of launch, more like a rounded cone. You're right though, you need mid-course correction to hit moving targets
