This makes me go"WTF!" rather than "Hmmmm..."

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52151951[/url]

[QUOTE=xilman;541940]This makes me go"WTF!" rather than "Hmmmm..."

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52151951[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López accused the Resolute of ramming the vessel, "which caused its sinking".[/quote]Right. I can just see the Board of Inquiry: "So, ah, tell me, Captain, was your patrol boat [i]outpaced[/i] or [i]outmaneuvered[/i] by that cruise ship?"

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Od4dL9Lip2/tunnel_29[/url]

Nuclear powered cruise missiles [URL="https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/russia-mysterious-explosion-arctic-putin-chernobyl/"]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/russia-mysterious-explosion-arctic-putin-chernobyl/[/URL]

Google "the flying crowbar" (quotes not needed)

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;542561]Google "the flying crowbar" (quotes not needed)[/QUOTE]
[STRIKE]GOOGLE[/STRIKE] DuckDuckGo.

It took me about 5 seconds to come up with the idea of rasterizing USSR with its gamma, neutron, and fission products after jettisoning its warheads on various high value targets such as launch facilities for the USSR equivalents, before reading far enough to see they covered that. The difference here is Russia actually built some and had test accidents that killed people.
The 150DB sound level of its flight is comparable to the louder rifles at the location of the rifleman without hearing protection. Which is to say, instant permanent hearing damage. But if the shock wave kills you, that's hearing loss too. Or the baker's dozen of jettisonable nukes.

The really essential component is the shadow shield: shielding between the propulsion section and the bomb bay. You don't want the nuclear engine to prematurely set in motion nuclear reactions in the bomb bay while over your own territory, or degrade the control systems.
But hey, with the best of US or Russian design and Chinese made electronic components, these could return to base or a suitably equipped carrier to reload and make another trip, catch what's left of the emergency response crews unaware. What could go wrong?

[URL]https://jalopnik.com/the-flying-crowbar-the-insane-doomsday-weapon-america-1435286216[/URL]
Supposedly the thing is within range of a person so briefly at flight speed that radiation dose is not a health issue.
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile[/URL] The US development and test program was terminated in 1964 after 2 Nevada desert engine tests.

[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik[/URL] The Russians are developing these things now.

And so the Russian Navy does not feel left out: nuclear powered high speed torpedo drones [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_System[/URL]

Re: "flying crowbar:" It's [url=https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=524272&postcount=144]deja vu all over again[/url]!

[QUOTE=kriesel;542559]Nuclear powered cruise missiles [url]https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-mysterious-explosion-took-place-in-russia-what-really-happened[/url][/QUOTE]Your links to "getpocket.com" imply a search for the source of the article. Couldn't you post clean (thanks Retina) links to the original article ?

Jacob

[QUOTE=S485122;542612]Your links to "getpocket.com" imply a search for the source of the article. Couldn't you post clean (thanks Retina) links to the original article ?

Jacob[/QUOTE]
I took care of that in the original post.

[COLOR="Red"][FONT="Arial Black"][SIZE="2"]Ken: Link back to original sources not çlipping services. Also sanitize your links. Supermods have talked you before about this.
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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU]Why This British Crossroads Is So Dangerous[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;544037][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU"]Why This British Crossroads Is So Dangerous[/URL][/QUOTE]
What a lot of unfortunate factors!