After sandia did the evaluation and investigation on the Iowa 16 inch gun accident long ago..... we went out to our range and disposed of the 20,000 plus pounds of the powder left over.
Each grain / pellet of powder for the old 16 inch guns was the size of a 8 gauge shotgun shell.....
Layed it out in a looooooong snake like pattern and tossed a couple of thermite grenades into the pile left at one end......
Bubbled the paint off the tailgate of the truck we tossed the grenades from before we could get away it went so fast and so hot.
Streams of powder were about a foot wide and 6 inches deep. But almost a mile long spirialing circle on our range.
You would have easily seen the results from your office. Quite the smoke and heat event on the backside of the manzanos and our butts as we left ate fast as our truck would run.....
Hot hot hot hoooot....
It was one of many, hold my beer , watch this moments in a long career in EOD .....
Maybe you can get Slim to rub some salve on yer butt as you ain’t getting any help from me!
Was that before or after the AF tried to burn the East Mountains down?
So you’re saying you’d like to do the same with 6E6# of powder?
;-P
Maybe not.