Subject: Re: Big boom at NTS on June 2
From: "gpsman" <gpsman@driversmail.com>
Date: 08/04/2006, 04:25
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51

miso@sushi.com wrote: <brevity snip>
http://www.fas.org/faspir/2001/v54n1/weapons.htm
This paper claims that low yield nukes can range from 0.01ton to 1
Kton.

For completeness, a c-5 can carry 145 tons, or 0.145Kton.

Supposedly... there was a 105mm howitzer round that yielded 1 KT in the
arsenal.  I have no idea who they expected to adjust that round onto
the target but I formed a pretty firm perspective early on that it
wasn't going to be me unless the situation was pretty damn desperate.

<q> The M102 howitzer fires a 33-pound projectile of semifixed
ammunition and at charge 7 will fire 11,500 meters. </q>
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m102.htm
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- gpsman