Timeline for Railgun-launched nuclear warhead
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| Dec 21, 2018 at 20:35 | comment | added | Perkins | You do still have a shockwave in a vacuum, but it's composed only of the expanding cloud of ionized gas that was originally the explosive payload. The solution is for your warhead to be a "casaba howitzer". That is: a nuclear shaped charge that transforms your megaton warhead from a spherical burst into a hellish lance of highly charged particles travelling at a measurable fraction of the speed of light. Correctly built they will concentrate approximately 90% of the energy into a beam with only a 5 degree spread. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | Ray | What's the scale on that picture? | |
| May 25, 2018 at 17:52 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @cms, I referred to 1 kton | |
| May 25, 2018 at 17:05 | comment | added | cms | <strike>1 megaton =~ $4 \times 10^{15}$ Joules. Seeing as the OP states the highest energy rail gun is the one that produces $4 \times 10^{12}$ (~100kg at 150km/s) wouldnt it be more accurate to say that a thermonuclear warhead adds 1000 times the energy? </strike> Since modern thermonuclear warheads have yields in the megaton range, wouldn't it be more accurate to state the nuke adds x1000 the energy? | |
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| S May 25, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 8:07 | vote | accept | Alexcommil | ||
| S May 22, 2018 at 20:55 | history | suggested | Malady | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 22, 2018 at 15:15 | history | suggested | Joey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 22, 2018 at 10:04 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 22, 2018 at 9:58 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |