I don’t think you know what the word “kinetic” means.
A .22 caliber pistol is a kinetic weapon.
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A sling, a bow, or a spear is a kinetic weapon. Or just a rock. But the sciency-sounding word implies high-tech do-wackys.
It appears that the use of the word “kinetic” in the phrase “non-nuclear kinetic energy” is intended to differentiate between energy derived from motion (kinetic energy) and energy that comes from nuclear reactions (nuclear energy).
If that .22 round was traveling at MACH 20, imagine the damage.
Beginning to comprehend?
Is this like the US Navy’s rail gun?
Try to remember this is the uber professional opinion of the Health Ranger. 😆
“I don’t think you know what the word “kinetic” means.”
You have the right idea. From Wikipedia:
“All kinetic weapons work by attaining a high flight speed — generally supersonic or even up to hypervelocity — and collide with their targets, converting their kinetic energy and relative impulse into destructive shock waves, heat and cavitation.”
Sounds like the warhead contains no explosives.
Yes, a .22 is. So is a .223 caliber.
A 36 gr .22 LR velocity is 1280 FPS with a muzzle energy of 131 ft lbs.
Hornady 55 gr .223 velocity is 3240 fps with a muzzle energy of 1282 ft lbs.
See the difference velocity makes? Now get a .22 projectile going Mach 20 and either the 36 or 55 grain 22 could probably knock a locomotive off it’s tracks.
I prefer a 5.56 round over a .223 round simply because the higher velocity makes it more accurate at a longer distance.
There was an article posted yesterday that had a picture of a crater in Dnipro.
It is instructive to study it.
Figured that out all by yourself?
The point of the article is that these NON-NUKES can hit anywhere any time and there's not a fkn thing we can do about it. Vlad is even giving 72 hr warnings for fks sake.
Try following along... instead of Zeepin' like a damned fool.
So, imagine a bullet weighing 500 pounds and being fired at Mach 15. Still a kinetic weapon. just on a larger scale, is it not ?
Over and above the scale is that it drops submunitions on it's way to the target.
Does it fire at MACH 10/11,000 fps?
Where do these fit into with kinetic weapons?
July 10, 2024
https://www.army.mil/article/277922/prepare_to_launch
SM-3 Block IIA production reaches full-rate production
https://www.naval-technology.com/news/sm-3-block-iia-production-reaches-full-rate-production/
RIM-161 Standard Missile 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3