{"id":187834,"date":"2011-02-20T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/20\/more-adventures-of-people-with-small-penises-in-the-pentagon\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T21:25:00","slug":"more-adventures-of-people-with-small-penises-in-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/20\/more-adventures-of-people-with-small-penises-in-the-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"More Adventures of People with Small Penises in the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USAF is looking for a 2000 lb missile replacement for its 5000+ lb guided free-fall bombs for bunker busting and the like, to quote Shrek, I think that someone is compensating:<\/p>\n

Penetrate faster, harder with new AFRL weapon<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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An Air Force Research Laboratory fact sheet with a 2011 time-stamp for public release approval tells us that a 2,000lb-class weapon with 5,000lb-class penetration capability could be available within three years.<\/div>\n
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“Future fighters will be able to deliver bunker-busting capabilities currently associated with the bomber fleet,” the fact sheet says.<\/div>\n
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I found the fact sheet for the High Velocity Penetrating Weapon (HVPW) in the AFRL munitions directorate booth at the Air Warfare Symposium a few days ago. The document reveals the USAF has shifted its focus on next-generation penetrator technology on a couple of different levels.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The folks at the USAF do seem to spend a suspiciously large amount of time talking about “penetrators”, don’t they?<\/p>\n

BTW, running the numbers, the kinetic energy of a 2500 kg system at 300 m\/s (about 650 mi\/h), is 112.5 MJ, so for a 1000 kg system, you would need a velocity of only (475 m\/s) <\/span>1800 m\/s<\/strike> km\/h <\/span>(1080 mi\/hr) to get the same kinetic energy.
(added correction in red<\/span>  D’oh!!!<\/span><\/b><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The USAF is looking for a 2000 lb missile replacement for its 5000+ lb guided free-fall bombs for bunker busting and the like, to quote Shrek, I think that someone is compensating: Penetrate faster, harder with new AFRL weapon \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 An Air Force Research Laboratory fact sheet with a 2011 time-stamp for public release approval …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1100,1044,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-funny","category-nuclear-weapons","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}