A bomb to bust the deepest bunkers

Eurekalert | New Scientist ^ | 7/13/05 | David Hambling

[El Gato]

I also like the concept of bringing 20,000 pounds in from orbit.

That would be city buster, not a bunker buster. A small compact city or town at least. Sort of like one of the boroughs of New York, area wise.

[Yasotay]

I hope you are right. I do not have any first hand information. I remember standing on Hitler's bunker in Berlin and the Flak Towers. They were very impressive ... 90 degree turns various layers of steel, dirt and concrete.The 'History Channel' stories haven't disclosed the actual results. Those stories were very interesting to me. They would have made great follow up stories. The public statements since the war say the results are classified. That leads me to think we failed. If we had succeeded, I should would have expected it to be shown.

[Yasotay]

I remember General Downing publicly saying that during Desert Storm he had something like 180+ reports on Saddam's location. He thought most of the reports were false or outdated. You definitely are correct about Saddam's movement scheme. I would sure like to see if his bunkers were busted.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Thud]

A better device is called your infantry on the ground.

[SampleMan]

Let's not bicker about who killed whom.

My calculation show a relative energy release equal to 145,100 lbs. of TNT. Comparable to a very small nuke of less than 1 kiloton. I believe Fat Boy was 5 kilotons.

However, as a penetrator, the surrounding area on the surface would not be so radically impacted. I will give you a good sized crater.

Of course, there would be no need for explosives.

[Little Ray]

Water will stop radar - subs don't user radar except for airborne warning and torpedoes are sonar homing. Maybe a blue-green lidar?

[jwh_Denver]

Thanks, I didn't know that.

"Maybe a blue-green lidar?"

What's that?

[Little Ray]

Laser based radar. The blue green frequency goes through the water a little better. Mostly an Science Fiction concept right now.