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Old 19th Nov 2011, 13:51
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Assuming a typical explosive proportion of 50% of bomb mass, a solid weapon travelling at mach 5 has, as kinetic energy, 70% of the explosive energy of a conventional bomb.
Not really worth the complication of explosives (storage, handling, risk) I would have thought.
..and that makes it a (big) rocket or bullet, not a bomb, in my book.
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