I’d prefer a railgun.
You always post these things. Have you not notice that these announcements never materialize. In 2006 Russia announces that they will build a moon base in 2015. 2015 is now and of course there is no Russian moon base. No one cares as there is no repercussions for the serious of false announcements. By the Way year 2000 was supposed to be communism.
seems like a small bunker buster fired from a cannon
Target: first you have to detect and locate it, then you have to hit it -- and then you can be concerned with destroying it -- all while the opponent's sea-skimmer is closing on your own platform...
Reactionary Russia -- always playing catch-up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_%28bomb%29
The British were using Barnes Wallis’ version of delayed action fuses to penetrate hardened targets in 1944.
Hold the presses. The Russians have just discovered armor-piercing ammunition for navy vessels. Maybe they’ll have depth charges and torpedoes soon too.
Does this mean Russian ship’s magazines will have a delayed detonation when hit with tomahawks?
Isn’t this the same Russia that spent much time developing ‘telepathic mind control’, as a military weapon?
Looks like they would be much better off, militarily, to develop a better way to target their Navy’s most significant enemy, RUST.
I know the guy that designed the MEMS sensor.
Small world.
We already have this, it just isn’t a adjustable after being fired. This is an improvement on and old idea.
We have this from at least 1989, maybe earlier.
They want to make the shells smart to sense that they made maximum penetration before going off, but the problem is/was that a lot of these shells don’t explode because of damage to the circuitry in the shells. Too many duds.
Mechanical time delays are more reliable.
Artillery shells? Why the hell would you bring a gun to a guided missile fight?