[AR] Re: Damascus AR Incident
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 01:47:37 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, James Padfield wrote:
...I thought that I had read somewhere that nuclear artillery shells
used a "linear implosion" kind of effect... But I really had no idea
gun-type devices were still in service so recently.
Modern designs for nuclear artillery shells are linear-implosion bombs,
for less profligate use of fission fuel and greater safety, but perfecting
the details took a long time. So gun bombs held out in that application
long after they were abandoned for everything else.
Henry
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