nukeM to [email protected]English • 4 months agoWhy don't we simply fling our decommissioned warships at our enemies? Are we stupid?i.imgur.commessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1435
arrow-up1435playWhy don't we simply fling our decommissioned warships at our enemies? Are we stupid?i.imgur.comnukeM to [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•4 months agoSo let’s you want to yeet this over 1000km from a NATO country to Moscow. You’d need at least 3000 m/s of velocity to do this (a ton more since this without air resistance). A fletcher class destroyer is around 2000 tons. So you’d need more than 8 terajoules or 2 kilotons of TNT.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months ago You’d need at least 3000 m/s of velocity to do this (a ton more since this without air resistance). Sounds pretty doable with enough boosters and struts. Pretty sure I’ve flung worse in KSP
So let’s you want to yeet this over 1000km from a NATO country to Moscow.
You’d need at least 3000 m/s of velocity to do this (a ton more since this without air resistance).
A fletcher class destroyer is around 2000 tons.
So you’d need more than 8 terajoules or 2 kilotons of TNT.
Sounds pretty doable with enough boosters and struts. Pretty sure I’ve flung worse in KSP