From: Ronzo (rojoha@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 06:00:22 PDT
A couple of the engineers at the plant were playing around with figures
about the concrete bombs, dropped from an aircraft going 500 mph then
playing with the various speed/force vectors involved (forward + down from
5000 feet to allow guidance package to track etc) and came up with
approximate impact forces.
Was approx 150 tons for a 500 lb bomb and 780 tons for a 2000 lb...
wasn't linear as they expected. Lota hurt there....look what happens when
the flush valve leaks on an airliner and a 5 lb chunk falls 25, 000 feet!
Ronzo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Greville" <dgrev@ruralnet.net.au>....
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: [MV] Hush-a-bomb
> Everyone
>
> I see that some clever person came up with the idea of using concrete
> filled practice bombs to take out urban tanks in Iraq, without ruining
> the neighbourhood.
>
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