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> The charges are not like nitrogycerin, they won't go off on impact. They will most likely go off if the warhead gets exploded tho. I doubt they test how the
by ilyt 4y ago
> The charges are not like nitrogycerin, they won't go off on impact.
They will most likely go off if the warhead gets exploded tho.
I doubt they test how the nuclear bombs react to getting shredded by AA
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoNot bloody likely. Its a very delicate balance of geometry and timing. Hit it with a hammer (blow it up) and that's all destroyed. You'd get the same effect as blowing up a pile of parts not yet formed into the missile. That is, some radioactive material vaporized and spread around.
- ilyt 4y agoI meant that the charges will blow off from explosion, not that they will blow off in exact way needed for nuclear bomb to happen
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoAh. More likely.
- lamontcg 4y ago> I doubt they test how the nuclear bombs react to getting shredded by AA They don't need to bother testing against conventional AA because of how unlikely it is to ever happen. Something like a Russian ZHU has an effective range of 1.4 km A reentry vehicle travels around Mach 13 or 4km/s so it will only be in effective range for 350 milliseconds. Good luck shooting it down. You won't even be able to track the thing and it would just be the luckiest blind shot in the world.