Raytheon rocks;
Raytheon has developed and tested a new conventional warhead technology to defeat hardened and deeply buried bunkers. The new technology, called Tandem Warhead System, consists of a shaped-charge precursor warhead combined with a follow- through penetrator explosive charge.
During a Jan. 31 test, the newly developed 1,000-pound-class warhead set a record when it punched through 19 feet, 3 inches of a 20-foot, 330-ton, steel rod-reinforced concrete block rated at 12,600 pounds per square inch compressive strength. In fewer than 10 milliseconds, the explosion delivered into the target more than 110 million foot-pounds of energy via a high- velocity jet of molten metal.
Raytheon’s large shape-charged test was the first against a target built to withstand more than 10,000 psi. Most conventional weapons in the same weight class as Raytheon’s precursor warhead cannot penetrate targets rated at more than 6,000 psi.
(h/t reader Charles MacDonald)
Update – More Raytheon cool! The Killer Bee.
Next test run,Pakistan, Afghan border?
Man when I was in the forces I thought 3 feet of overhead was lots of cover.
Yikes,
Yeah 19 ft 18 ft , whatever, load em up and drop them on Hamas/Al Quida/ Taliban/ Hez and the other Islamo-freaks.
dinosaur…I remember that my helmet would save my life one day,yikes is right.
How deep underground is Iran’s reactor?
Obama won’t use it.
Give it to me, I will.
“penetrator explosive charge”
That was my nickname in high school! At least, that’s how I remember it.
I wonder if the Chinese have stolen the plans
for it yet.
I remember near the end of Gulf War I watching footage of a 2000 lb. bunker buster test. It sliced through the concrete hatch from a Titan II missile silo like it wasn’t there and detonated on a hillside about half a mile beyond. (They ran the test horizontally.)
That was neat, but this is very, very cool.
Nobody builds shelters like that for anything less than El Presidente or a nuke missile bunker. Either way, shooting at these high-value targets is a much more efficient way to destroy an army than carpet bombing 10,000 infantry. Cut off the snakes head, it doesn’t matter what the rest of him does.
The real beauty of a thing like this is you don’t have to get it all done with just one bomb. With the lovely guidance systems they have these days you can fly two or three of ’em down the same hole and dig all the way in to a mountain. B2 bomber, beam rider smart bombs and a special ops team with a laser pointer, Kim Jong Ill can kiss his ass and his nukes good bye both at once.
I expect the Chicoms are digging deeper, right now. Hey Chicoms! Bombs are cheap, digging is expensive. Maybe a change in behavior would be in order?
Wait ’till they start dropping the solid tungsten flying telephone pole from orbit. Can you say impact energy? Oh baby!
Zopilote
Well, now that clinton is out of office the Chicoms won’t be able to buy it so they’ll have to steal it.
With any luck, the first real test will be on some Iranian nuclear facilities!
sliced through 19ft 3 inches of a 20ft bunker? Looks like the test failed guys, back to the drawing board.
Pete- “sliced through 19ft 3 inches of a 20ft bunker? Looks like the test failed guys, back to the drawing board.”
The answer was already there.
The Phantom – “The real beauty of a thing like this is you don’t have to get it all done with just one bomb. With the lovely guidance systems they have these days you can fly two or three of ’em down the same hole and dig all the way in to a mountain.”
The military already does this with their smart bombs. One right after the other to make sure they’ve gone through every level in the house!
I believe there is footage of this on the net.
“sliced through 19ft 3 inches of a 20ft bunker? Looks like the test failed guys, back to the drawing board.”
I guess you’re probably being sarcastic, but just in case:
When you’re doing penetration testing, you always want to use more material than you actually need to punch through. If they had used a 10ft block it would have disappeared nicely, but then they wouldn’t have known the full penetrating power of the system.
So much for scrop kits and 18 inches of OHP!
Theredsuit has a point. The attempted hit on Saddam at the restaurant in Baghdad was a series of 5 carefully timed smart bombs, each one timed to arrive in series just as the bomb ahead had lifted the debris with the result that the next bomb could fly through the debris, bury, explode, create another debris lift, just as the following bomb arrived to penetrate (repeat to taste). But to have the same effect in one single piece of ordinance!
SWEET!
More important; Admiral Fannon [sp], top US military planner and thinker who advocates debate and deal making with the *enemy*, has been set adrift.
With Fannon out of the way, chances are this new NUKE safe bunker destroyer could find it*s way into Acmahdinejad*s toy shop.
Bush would like to exit with a BANG! . . eh? =TG
You may see a short demo here. The last demo shows the lefovers of reinforced concrete.
“sliced through 19ft 3 inches of a 20ft bunker?”
Like they’re going to tell the world exactly what this baby will do. Go ahead and build your nuke bunkers 25′ thick; see what happens.
Anything you build can be “taken down”.
As to the specified depths of destruction, Raytheon is just letting opponents know that is the guaranteed penetration.
If the target is thicker just time multiple bombs to lift out debris in timed succession.
So fifty feet of reinforced concrete would be blown out in three successive blasts.
Burrowing 101!!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Anything you build can be “taken down”.
As to the specified depths of destruction, Raytheon is just letting opponents know that is the guaranteed penetration.
If the target is thicker just time multiple bombs to lift out debris in timed succession.
So fifty feet of reinforced concrete would be blown out in three successive blasts.
Burrowing 101!!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I don’t like to be a pedant (i do, actually, but what the hell) but:
ordinance – 1. an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
2. a public injunction or regulation: a city ordinance against excessive horn blowing.
ordnance – 1. cannon or artillery. 2. military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc. 3. the branch of an army that procures, stores, and issues, weapons, munitions, and combat vehicles and maintains arsenals for their development and testing.
“Raytheon rocks”
Leave it to the right to glorify something that kills human beings.
Gawd, it’s hard to post fast amongst the eagle-eyed of SDA! And I of the spelling-challenged.
…gives new meaning to “boom boom”.
is the last 6 inches really important ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBBUrOHV9GA
unless you are a democrate senator.
I know,I know. Don’t feed the trolls…but
“”Raytheon rocks”
Leave it to the right to glorify something that kills human beings.
Posted by: Libforlife at March 13, 2008 7:30 PM
Ummmm….is that something like the leftards/dippers glorify Mao,Stalin,LBeria,Castro…etc? Naw can’t be. I must be a knuckledragging redneck to think there is any connection between those guys and leftards/dippers.
cal2 — is the last 6 inches really important ?
yea– to put one up Bin Ladins ass — BWWWAHAHAHAAA!!!!
The tandem warhead consisting of a shaped charge in front of a follow-through bomb was originally developed by Royal Ordnance, and is called the BROACH warhead. It is the warhead in the British Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missile, and has been in service since 2002.
Woohoo! Weapons are awesome! Killing is great!
My brother used to work for RAYTHEON and they make AMMAN RADAR RANGES and he was always getting those jerks from GREENPEACE bumming around for money for their stupid protests but he gave them nothing becuase RAYTHEON was one of the targets of their stupid protests
Killing just the generals and the dictators and blowing up nukes before they launch, while leaving all the poor bastard soldiers alive, yep that’s pretty awesome. I like stuff like that.
Speaking of things I like, that Killer Bee thing is SMOKIN’! What a hot rod!
I just loooove the whole blended-wing-body thing, its just so inherently -right-. You look at it and it just seems to want to fly.
I’ve been following the development of that concept since the early 1990’s. Here’s the NASA/Boeing one
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-48
This is Douglas Bullard’s Nurflugel page, one of the oldest web pages I know of. Up since 1997!
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/nurflugel.html
Airplane nerds will find lots to love there, for sure.
One of the designers responsible for the BWB is Ilan Kroo of Stanford.
http://www.win.tue.nl/ceas-asc/workshop8/Documents/CEAS_Budapest_2004_Ilan_Kroo.pdf
Oh piffle. Tallboy did more, and in battle, not in a controlled test.
Sure, Tallboy weighed 5 tons, but I would bet that by the time Raytheon’s new bomb has its fins etc attached it will come fairly close.
A Tallboy equipped with a PG kit would be a formidable weapon indeed.
Anyway, here’s to the men of 617 Squadron RAF who used Tallboy and Grand Slam (and Upkeep) with such daring and skill!
Hmmm..i will not feed the trolls (resist, Kursk, resist!) except to say that the retarded left must be sad that there will be fewer and fewer ‘peace summits’ with their favourite dictators when these weapons are deployed..