Total kinetic energy delivered is a sensible metric for a direct fire weapon, your choice to compare a tactical weapon like a gun with a strategic one is not ve

Total kinetic energy delivered is a sensible metric for a direct fire weapon, your choice to compare a tactical weapon like a gun with a strategic one is not very helpful. It leads to a whole family of fairly useless remarks, such as pointing out that neither magazine size nor calibre, commonly held to be important numbers for guns, are not very useful measures when applied to ICBMs.