Re:Is that ship still stuck?
by nomy99 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:58PM
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Bunch of these ?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs
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Won't work. Thermobaric weapons are very good at killing people, and breaking equipment, but aren't particularly good at evacuating material.
I was going by the amount of tnt/bomb payload. It’s about 44 tonnes of tnt.
Yup, I get it. The energy released by a thermobaric weapon is spread out over a very, very large distance. Inside the blast, people will be killed and equipment will be rendered interoperable by the extreme temperature and the over pressure. Outside the blast you have a very strong (but subsonic) blast wave. But inside the blast, the pressure will envelope stuff, and push on it from both sides. With regards to blasting away a very large ship, thermobaric weapons are not particularly effective.