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To: Renfield

Just for a frame of reference, the 40-ton blast doors covering ICBM silos in the US are 10 feet thick and made of pre-stressed, steel reinforced, hand-troweled concrete. They were built to withstand a near miss by a 1 MT nuclear device.

Accident investigations have shown that the in-silo explosion of a Titan-2 missile can propel the payload package through the blast door quite easily.

We’re going after BIG game with these babies.


7 posted on 02/29/2008 5:11:18 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Save the crab louse! Ban the brazilian!)
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To: CholeraJoe
We’re going after BIG game with these babies.

CJ,

I hope I do not violate the loose lips rule, but aren't we retrofitting 4 boomers from Nuke to an exclusive Cruise Missile platform?

These will carry Tactical-Tomahawks which can be converted to this config, if I am reading it right.

Wackmadimijod Checkmate.....

8 posted on 02/29/2008 5:17:58 AM PST by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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To: CholeraJoe

Anyone care to explain how these things work?

I was never good at this stuff, but I don’t see how a missile could penetrate layers of rock and concrete and THEN explode.

It’s not like the leading edge of the missile is a diamond saw and drills down...


10 posted on 02/29/2008 5:27:06 AM PST by tj21807
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