Timeline for "Infantry" main weapons for the setting described below?
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| Jun 19 at 11:06 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | @General_Ripper I think it is much better as a grenade launcher. If you launch it from a trench, the Earth will defend you from the radiation (if it is not dry, even from the neutron radiation). I think a small nuclear explosion in a trench, at least some hundred meter far from the explosion point, is pretty well survivable without health risks. In the much larger Hiroshima/Nagasaki attacks, most people died from burns and from collapsed buildings, not from radiation. | |
| Jun 19 at 11:02 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | @NepeneNep I think it would be still equivalent to some hundreds or thousands tons of TNT. It would be enough to level a village. | |
| Jun 19 at 10:59 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | Californium density is 15 kg/l, making the diameter of a 2kg californium nuke to 6.3cm. That is still 6 times larger as the today used largest caliber hand weapons. However, it could be useful as a nuclear grenade launcher. Today a Javelin or Kormat can destroy a tank. Such a nuclear grenade launcher could destroy a village or a small city. Or, using on sea, a single such nuclear grenade launcher could sink an USA aircraft carrier. | |
| Jun 9 at 9:58 | comment | added | Nepene Nep | Why eliminate a chest when you can eliminate their entire battalion? | |
| Jun 9 at 2:13 | comment | added | RonJohn | How many 4kg weapons will you carry. Even with power armor, ammo gets bulky. And the goal is to precisely hit a someone's chest, not demolish a building. | |
| Jun 8 at 19:16 | comment | added | Nepene Nep | If you have good power armour to shield you from radiation, then the nuclear weapon should be fine. It'll not be a huge nuke since it's 2 kilos, and you probably won't get full conversion. Plus, as mentioned, you could have adjustable yield. | |
| Jun 8 at 14:53 | comment | added | General_Ripper | I see your point here...though I have a feeling that it's going to be of dubious utility. it is after all meant to be used by something acting like a infantry, and that's probably gonna mean house clearing. detonating a nuclear weapon in the same room with me sounds like a kamikaze attack. On the other hand it does sound like a good tactical nuclear weapon were it not for pure fusion weapons being available in my setting | |
| Jun 8 at 13:45 | history | answered | Nepene Nep | CC BY-SA 4.0 |