hypersonic ASW

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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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >450ft of earth
    >When it crashed it barely dug 2 meters
    Lmao

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      OP here, I included a little bit of bait with my question, sorry, it is what it is

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    also semi related:

    how can active sonar be so dangerous to marine life but nobody mentions underwater explosions or torpedoes as dangerous to animals?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      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

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      does that avg depth include DE subs?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      lets be real, nobody gives a shit about underwater life (unfortunately)

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Water is essentially not compressible. Your hyper fast missile would splatter at the surface. You fricking moron.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      unironically the type of answer I was looking for thanks lol

      t. OP

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Water is essentially not compressible. Your hyper fast missile would splatter at the surface. You fricking moron.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation

        People are fricking 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.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          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

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Then why could Zuni rockets penetrate 140' of water and submarine hulls?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        source?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/lNxyYSc.jpg

      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

      lets be real, nobody gives a shit about underwater life (unfortunately)

      only good posts

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    > 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).

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Before it does any of that it has to not get shot down by a PAC-3 interceptor.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >nafo intercepted a hypersonic missile
    got any proof for that?
    post kinzhal?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      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

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