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To: AppyPappy

One missile hit equipped with what is probably a smallish conventional warhead, is not gong to sink a 100,000 ton warship. Will it cause millions of dollars of damage? Yes it will. Will it cause the ship to be nonoperational? Yes for a while.


88 posted on 03/27/2017 7:23:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

You would have to shoot it like an unguided torpedo. You could make fractional adjustments but even with a computer, Mach 7 is too fast for terminal adjustments.
You blow up an AA warhead in front of it and it is running into a cloud of shrapnel at about Mach 10. It will be ripped to shreds. The concussion could also send it out of control.


90 posted on 03/27/2017 7:34:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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