if a hypersonic missile can pen 450 ft of earth and destroy an underground NATO command center then could you hypothetically shoot these directly at underwater submarines and not have to waste time with a slow torp?
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if a hypersonic missile can pen 450 ft of earth and destroy an underground NATO command center then could you hypothetically shoot these directly at underwater submarines and not have to waste time with a slow torp?
>450ft of earth
>When it crashed it barely dug 2 meters
Lmao
OP here, I included a little bit of bait with my question, sorry, it is what it is
also semi related:
how can active sonar be so dangerous to marine life but nobody mentions underwater explosions or torpedoes as dangerous to animals?
Undersea explosions are both far less common and far more transient than sonar. A sonar emitter is essentially one of those sound cannons they use for crowd control, except they're more powerful, travel much further, and dolphins and whales etc. rely more heavily on their hearing than humans
Well, if we're discussing hypotheticals
Most modern submarines operate at depths of 300 to 450 meters, but you'd have to find them first.
Explosions are just as dangerous to animals, but high pitch noises travel further in water.
does that avg depth include DE subs?
lets be real, nobody gives a shit about underwater life (unfortunately)
Water is essentially not compressible. Your hyper fast missile would splatter at the surface. You fucking retard.
unironically the type of answer I was looking for thanks lol
t. OP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation
People are fucking dumbasses
Anyway, most likely it'll miss because of sum of uncontrollable dispersion error during its track through the water and guidance error, and hypersonic dispersion error. Which is a lot of error, dozens to hundreds of meters.
modern torps blow up under boats to kill them with the bubble so you wouldnt need a direct hit you could just make cavitation near the sub I think
Then why could Zuni rockets penetrate 140' of water and submarine hulls?
source?
only good posts
> can pen 450 ft of earth
Proof? It's sectional density is worse than the BLU-28 (pen 164 ft of earth) and no, Kinzhal impact velocity isn't M10.0, it's similar to the Iskander (M2.5 - M3.5).
Before it does any of that it has to not get shot down by a PAC-3 interceptor.
>nafo intercepted a hypersonic missile
got any proof for that?
post kinzhal?
The damaged warhead shown by ukranians is in fact a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal warhead.
Evidence: a Kh-47M2 crashed (Stavropol, Russia) on last September.
https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1570373528834252800
Pic: warhead of the intercepted Kinzhal