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Beirut Explosion #5372

Open Quark-73 opened 1 week ago

Quark-73 commented 1 week ago

DB Selector

DB3K

Baseline

Not intended for a weapon just for LUA ScenEditAddexplosion

Hypothetical

No

Name

Beirut Explosion

Length (m)

N/A

Width/Span (m)

N/A

Diameter (m)

N/A

Weight (kg)

N/A

Range (nm)

N/A

Target Altitude / Depth (ft)

N/A

Target Speed (kts)

N/A

Launch Altitude / Depth (ft)

N/A

LaunchSpeed (kts)

N/A

Warhead

2750000 kg of Ammonium Nitrate Explosive Type #2007

Targets

Aircraft, Helicopter, Missile, Surface Vessel, Land Structure - Soft, Land Structure - Hardened, Runway, Radar, Mobile Target - Soft, Mobile Target - Hardened, Mobile Target - Personnel

CEP (m)

No response

Sensors

N/A

Weapon Codes

No response

Comments

Nuclear explosion of this magnitude would cause unwanted side effects in CMO like EMP and heat. So I am looking for a huge conventional bang.

Sources

acc. wikipedia the explosion had a yield of 1.1 kt TNT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion The fear of using of a freighter as bomb is not far fetched: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ship-carrying-explosive-cargo-from-russia-refused-entry-to-european-ports-floating-megabomb-6738195