Timeline for Destroying Hypervelocity Rounds With More Hypervelocity Rounds
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| Sep 30, 2019 at 17:27 | comment | added | GuilleOjeda | I'm on board with @V.Aggarwal's idea. Calculating the projectile's new trajectory doesn't seem much harder than hitting the projectile in the first place. So, near impossible for current computers to do it quick enough, but already solved for OP's computers. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 11:37 | comment | added | V.Aggarwal | @PabloH Right, that has to be calculated very precisely, about where the projectile will deflect, but it should not be a very complicated problem, On-board computer AI can easily handle it, Maybe hit the projectile more than once, to get the results. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 11:17 | comment | added | Pablo H | @V.Aggarwal Miss your ship. There may be other ships or vessels, maybe civilians, or critical resources, etc. in the new trajectory. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 8:43 | answer | added | Starfish Prime | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 6:55 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 30, 2019 at 4:58 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 4:50 | comment | added | V.Aggarwal | Instead of hitting the incoming projectile at the dead-center, why not hit it at an angle, this way, even if 100% of the projectile survive the impact, its course will be altered and may miss your ship by miles. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 23:34 | answer | added | LSerni | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 23:04 | comment | added | FlyingLemmingSoup | @Shadowzee Let's assume the problem of hitting something with the cross-sectional area of your fist moving at 60km/s has been solved. We're just talking about what happens after impact. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 23:01 | comment | added | Shadowzee | Are we only meant to focus on the actual impact and debris? or the plausibility of intercepting a Hypervelocity round in the first place? We can't even intercept large missiles in the atmosphere reliably... | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 22:56 | comment | added | FlyingLemmingSoup | @CortAmmon Preeeeeeety…. And informative! :D | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 22:54 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I'm not going to claim this is an entire answer, but here's a simulation of a collision at 15 km/s. | |
| Sep 29, 2019 at 22:43 | history | asked | FlyingLemmingSoup | CC BY-SA 4.0 |