Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: consp04@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Dan Boyd) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Bunker Busting Message-ID: <1991Jan27.112158.29205@cbnews.att.com> Date: 27 Jan 91 11:21:58 GMT References: <1991Jan25.033655.12490@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: SUNY Binghamton Lines: 25 Approved: military@att.att.com From: consp04@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Dan Boyd) |> From: Philip Montgomery Sherwood |> One idea we had was to reprogram the patriot to fly up over the |> bunker, turn over and do a powered dive into the bunker area at |> Mach 3. Wouldn't this have a quite an impact energy and do a good |> bit of damage? By the time you get a Patriot there, it's already out of fuel. It's simpler to drop something heavy from a high altitude -- like a bomb from an airplane, huh? |> Could the missile go Mach 3 at the low altitudes without succumbing |> to air resistance? Not without using up a lot of fuel, and at the expense of being able to carry a significant warhead. Daniel F. Boyd | Patty, who was born today? Student Consultant, SUNY-Binghamton | ... Uh, nobody, Hugh. consp04@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu | I mean in history, Patty, | before they changed the water.