three gorges dam is one of the most massive structures on earth nnothing short of megaton yield nuclear weapons are going to damage it. Even then you will need penetration warheads to hit the embankments. Hitting the same face would do very little even with megaton yields the mass is simply too great. The Soviets planned on using no less than half a dozen 20 megaton sized warheads to hit NORAD and that’s just dirt and rock not high compression reinforced concrete. You would need hit after hit of our largest trident warheads on the back face of the dam at or below the waterline using the water itself as a mass to focus the yield. Then you can expect the chicoms to wipe out with 5 megaton DF5s every city in the USA with a million or more. They have enough and we don’t habe enough interceptors to.stop them. Yeah not a good idea. Remember China could take 600 million dead in a nuclear exchange and have half it’s people still alive to rebuild. The USA looses 200 million and we cease to be a society. They win by demographics alone and they know this.
The size of their standing army is our total population.
Chinese construction is shoddy. My money says that dam will collapse all on its own at some point
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I’m certainly no expert in this stuff but while I imagine slamming a missile into the front face of the dam may achieve little, I do wonder about dropping a large explosive into the water behind the dam. The hydro-static shock coming behind the dam, with the water pushing in the same direction might overload the system. Or perhaps not. I’m not a damn engineer.
I don’t know about that. It was build by chinamen , which means it was done, cheap fast and shoddily. Second, I’ve seen it during monsoons and video of it shows it swaying back-and-forth pretty wildly. It will probably just go by itself.
-three gorges dam is one of the most massive structures on earth nothing short of megaton yield nuclear weapons are going to damage it.-
Our Bunker Buster bombs are designed to damage reinforced cement structures like this dam and you only have to weaken the already stressed dam to let the 40 cubic kilometers of water behind the dam destroy it.
The dam also has two series of locks to allow ships to move up and down the river which are softer targets. While the locks are not under pressure, if you allow a path for the water from the reservoir to the river below the dam through the locks, erosion will quickly destroy it.
While I’m not an expert and certainly don’t think it is a good idea, I think it would be a doable thing well short of nukes.
Dude that’s just a ludicrous statement. That dam could be taken out with a wide variety of conventional weaponry, a GBU-57A/B would punch its ticket NO problem.