Borgholio wrote:I'm referring to the nuclear torpedo idea. Send down a torp, confirm a hit, send down another if the thing is still moving.
Again, kaiju are faster and more maneuverable than subs or torpedoes, and the only torpedoes we have that can go near their speed are sonar blind so they can't even adjust aim or work off promixity.
So if your torpedo has to travel, say, 2km, then the kaiju in that time can travel 2km+, in any direction (North, South, East, West, and changing in depth), and actively maneuver and chance course, in the same time frame.
If you want to go the mine route, put a single MASSIVE mine on a tether hovering directly over the rift. Kaiju comes thru, immediately gets a 25 megaton bomb to the face. If you get two kaiju in a row, then hit the second one with torpedoes.
You don't want it too close to the rift- because one good smack and you no longer have a nuclear explosion, you have a dirty bomb at best, which may possibly mildly annoy the kaiju. Though sufficiently big you can manage somewhat further out, granted.
But to do the torpedo after, now the distance you have to fire from is outside the radius of a *25* MT blast. You're now firing from no-where near the breach, the Kaiju has completely open water in three dimensions to work with.
The biggest the bomb, the less redundancy you can do near the breach.