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To: RayChuang88
Harpoon warhead is kinda small for taking out something that big. Turn a Los Angeles class fast attack, or better one of the new SSN-21 class, at this point the Virginia and the Texas. Their MK 48 ADCAP, 650 lbs (292.5 kg) high explosive warhead, torpedoes would be much more effective than the smaller (488 pounds/224 kg) warhead on the Harpoon, in part because it's delieved below the waterline, perhaps even below the keel. Here's the effect of a MK-48 on a destroyer sized ship.

The rest of the sequence is here

85 posted on 03/03/2007 6:38:00 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
Oh, heck...let's just post the entire sequence...

There. The MK-48 is awesome...and VERY powerful. That is the weapon that would do the trick in such an engagement.

87 posted on 03/03/2007 6:52:27 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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