Plotting out WWIII: It's Really HARD

[Craiglxviii]

...Code name Project PURDEY.

Mike

I found it!!

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Here we go. Project HELMET, a 9.45” gun firing 500lb shotgun rounds out to 200,000’ for an intercept 30-35 miles downrange.

YES, Gerald Bull was involved.

Craig,

I can believe Bull was part of that. But six rounds a minute? Seems like it would need to be a lot faster than that.

Mike

Per gun. With 100 guns per mile of ffrontage covered, or one gun every 50 feet. Put another way that’s 134 tons of ammunition per minute, per mile going up.

And the ammunition was explosive buckshot…

[Simon Darkshade]

Is that from one of the British Secret Projects books? I remember that page.

[Craiglxviii]

Is that from one of the British Secret Projects books? I remember that page.

It’s from “Battle Flight”.

[Simon Darkshade]

Ah yes, the one Chris Gibson book I never bought, and looking at the price, I nearly got the vapours.

[Bouncy70]

I've got a perfect decoy. It weighs the same as an RV, has the same ballistic coefficient, and it generates nuclear yield at end of flight.

Poohbah,

...That's so crazy, it might just WORK!

Mike

As I remember, this was the conclusion of one of Stuart's discussions on the subject. A really realistic decoy will be so similar in size and weight to a live warhead that you might as well just replace it with one.

[Craiglxviii]

Ah yes, the one Chris Gibson book I never bought, and looking at the price, I nearly got the vapours.

I think I paid £12.99 for my brand-new copy..!!!

It does have some cool stuff in it. ABM-missile-launching semi autonomous high altitude drones, anyone?

[Nightwatch2]

Ah yes, the one Chris Gibson book I never bought, and looking at the price, I nearly got the vapours.

I think I paid £12.99 for my brand-new copy..!!!

It does have some cool stuff in it. ABM-missile-launching semi autonomous high altitude drones, anyone?

That would be useful these days!