Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: thos@softway.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Bunker Busting Summary: a lighter side Message-ID: <1991Feb4.063830.20490@cbnews.att.com> Date: 4 Feb 91 06:38:30 GMT References: <1991Jan23.033507.1302@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia Lines: 35 Approved: military@att.att.com From: thos@softway.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen) In article <1991Jan23.033507.1302@cbnews.att.com> MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) writes: > > >From: Michael Edelman >The 12,500 pound "Daisy Cutter" mentioned in a posting sounds attractive >for this purpose, but it apparantly has no cratering ability. Perhaps >a penetrating version could be built. That would require a major redesign on the casing. Probably wouldn't take long, and besides, the original worked so well that you could just dust down the designs (for a short term solution, at least. The designers name was Barnes Wallis, his portfolio included geodetic framework as applied to aircraft, culminating in the Wellington, design of the R101 (or was it the R100?), various work on SST-type aircraft, etc. >show a single airshaft with blast doors top and bottom and air shafts. >Perhaps an F117 could lob a 2,000 pounder down one? Films of the F-117 >dropping a bomb down an air shaft (if that's what it really was) make it >sound possible.... Star Wars: "That's impossible!" "No it's not! I used to hit Wamp Rats back home with my T16 and they're not much bigger than 2 metres!" -- thos cohen |Softway Pty Ltd "Stopping to pick up passengers would disrupt |ACSnet: thos@softway.oz the timetable" - Alderman Cholerton, on why|UUCP: ...!uunet!softway.oz!thos the council's buses didn't stop for passengers|Internet: thos@softway.oz.au