Deep Digger. Is a new weapon used to reach into those deep down bunkers and kill them.

Not really 100% SR related, but there was a debate about bunker busting weapons a while back.

*groans*

pleas tell me this doesn't involve Bruce Willis.

I am a little sceptical about how this approach would work...

oh it'll work, but it assumes that there's no one up on the surface that will blow this thing away with an RPG.

They can drop a regular bomb first.

~J

I was thinking either a regular cluster bomb or a really big regular bomb, but yeah, same idea.

No doubt there's a proper path that someone with the right knowledge of the interaction between explosives and terrain could identify. I am not such a someone, especially not while this tired.

~J

It will have to manage much more than 10 meters if it intends to beat systems like SHOC, but it's an interesting method of getting explosives deep into rock and concrete.

Since the Deep Digger is a high-drag munition, any low-drag dumb bombs would have to be dropped beforehand anyway since they will travel down at a much greater forward velocity. And might as well drop several CBU-87/103s, just to make sure.

Am I the only one who was immediately reminded of this?


-karma

Now if we could only equip drop bears with similar technology...

No KI, you were not.

I suppose its all a good idea and all, but its going to rapidly run into the problem of spoil disposal. Never mind the problem of getting it land in a vertical position on top of concrete.

Yeah, security through obscurity doesn't really work in the long run.

Worms and moles move the earth around but largely travel laterally through soft soil. A drilling bomb would be moving straight down through solid rock. Gravity would work against it being able to continue to move the rock because it isn't just pushing up the rock its just broken up, but also all the rock above it.

Additionally I'm under the impression that, when boring through rock, the drill bit has to be regularly replaced because its worn down very quickly. That means we can expect this device to have similar equipment malfunctions when it goes beyond a certain depth.

Finally, worms and moles eat food. Bombs don't. It has to carry its own continuous fuel source, including the explosive payload, guidance systems, so on and so forth. I imagine it's pretty fuel inefficient to bore through solid rock, so I don't think we'll have something that gets 20 mpg here or anything.

Who ever is broadcasting those specs really is doing a dis-service to their own fighting men and women. I mean really, why would you tell everyone what you can and cant do?

And yes, drills routinely do need their bits replaced. But this isnt using bits. Its firing .75 caliber projectiles into the rock/concrete in its path, then shoots the debris back out behind the deep digger.

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?