IronsightSniper
Junior Member
re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer
How much does it cost though? That's always the big question. Oh right, about $400,000, unupgraded. Also, a large problem with large warheads is that they can really only deal with 1 target. 90 kg of HE delivered even with pin-point precision on my house is only going to destroy my house and probably severely damage or destroy the very houses next to mines. Thus, if you have a large number of targets that are in closely spaced spaces (a particular house in a neighborhood) whom are next to people you want to avoid killing, smaller warheads are superior to larger warheads.
Here's a video of a Maverick missile (don't know which variant, probably the blast-frag variant which has a 136 kg warhead):
It's a big boom, but it isn't going to destroy the houses next to mine. However, the 11 kg of HE on the LRLAP, would either severely damage or destroy my house, and probably inflict minor damage to the houses next to me. Remember, if I lived in a dangerous neighborhood, where my entire neighborhood were insurgents and the enemy, whom had the AGS, knew of that, destroying more houses per shot is better. However, most of the time, they're only going to want to destroy one house in particular, thus, less damage to the houses next to me is favorable, as it would more minimize the civilian casualties.
Here's a video of the GBU-39 or the "Small Diameter Bomb", which carries a warhead of 23 kg, comparable to that of the LRLAP's.
Admittedly the explosions looked bigger than I thought, but it still shows my point.
How much does it cost though? That's always the big question. Oh right, about $400,000, unupgraded. Also, a large problem with large warheads is that they can really only deal with 1 target. 90 kg of HE delivered even with pin-point precision on my house is only going to destroy my house and probably severely damage or destroy the very houses next to mines. Thus, if you have a large number of targets that are in closely spaced spaces (a particular house in a neighborhood) whom are next to people you want to avoid killing, smaller warheads are superior to larger warheads.
Here's a video of a Maverick missile (don't know which variant, probably the blast-frag variant which has a 136 kg warhead):
It's a big boom, but it isn't going to destroy the houses next to mine. However, the 11 kg of HE on the LRLAP, would either severely damage or destroy my house, and probably inflict minor damage to the houses next to me. Remember, if I lived in a dangerous neighborhood, where my entire neighborhood were insurgents and the enemy, whom had the AGS, knew of that, destroying more houses per shot is better. However, most of the time, they're only going to want to destroy one house in particular, thus, less damage to the houses next to me is favorable, as it would more minimize the civilian casualties.
Here's a video of the GBU-39 or the "Small Diameter Bomb", which carries a warhead of 23 kg, comparable to that of the LRLAP's.
Admittedly the explosions looked bigger than I thought, but it still shows my point.
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