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The B53 - Not an AFV but interesting anyway!
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TimRoyall
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:41 am Post subject: The B53 - Not an AFV but interesting anyway!
Hard to imagine such a thing "landing softly"!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...a-15453872 Tim,

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: The B53 - Not an AFV but interesting anyway!
A mere 9MT, a firecracker compared to The Tsar Bomba! The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud seen from a distance of 160 km. The crown of the cloud is 56 km high at time of picture.

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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: The B53 - Not an AFV but interesting anyway!
- Pzkpfw-e A mere 9MT, a firecracker compared to The Tsar Bomba! While, unlike fission weapons, there is no theoretical limit to the size of thermonuclears, there is a practical limit. As one approaches the 100mT capacity, it merely evacuates the atmosphere above the event at a greater rate, rather than expanding the zone of destruction. Bragging rights don't count for much in weapons design.

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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: The B53 - Not an AFV but interesting anyway!
Weapons designers discovered that patterns of small nukes from MIRV's are more destructive than one big blast. Testing of the re-entry phase:

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