How much energy would this take?
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How much energy would this take?
Does anyone know how much energy or destructive force (you can use joules or tons of TNT, I'll be happy with either one) it would it take to snap an Iowa class battleship in half?
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Patrick Degan
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Hit the keel in the right spot and she'd snap from hogging stresses, like any ship.
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Re: How much energy would this take?
And ADCAP or two under the keel ought to suffice.Junghalli wrote:Does anyone know how much energy or destructive force (you can use joules or tons of TNT, I'll be happy with either one) it would it take to snap an Iowa class battleship in half?
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Winston Blake
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Re: How much energy would this take?
I might add that an ADCAP apparently has an explosive energy of about 544 kg of TNT, or 2.3 gigajoules.PeZook wrote:And ADCAP or two under the keel ought to suffice.Junghalli wrote:Does anyone know how much energy or destructive force (you can use joules or tons of TNT, I'll be happy with either one) it would it take to snap an Iowa class battleship in half?
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Winston Blake
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Also there's an image sequence here showing a 28-year-old Australian destroyer being easily snapped in half by a single ADCAP, albeit under the keel to take advantage of the hogging stresses Degan mentioned. Maybe double digit gigajoules would be a safe bet for snapping an Iowa.
Robert Gilruth to Max Faget on the Apollo program: “Max, we’re going to go back there one day, and when we do, they’re going to find out how tough it is.”