(November 2, 2022 at 6:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 2, 2022 at 6:02 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Ignoring the fact that one warhead of 500 kg may well be able to damage more than one target. Say, for instance, the Russians targeted a water-treatment facility, and in the ensuing explosion, an electrical substation was hit. There's two vital pieces of infrastructure damaged by one missile.
Or, perhaps, the knock-on consequences from one target being hit by one missile caused an untargeted, unhit facility to take damage as well.
Another thing is that "what goes up must come down", so some of the damage initially attributed to these Russian strikes may be a result of anti-aircraft misses coming back to earth. These things happen regularly in aerial warfare. It's not as clear-cut as you'd like to portray.
And, as I mentioned earlier, Bel is studiously ignoring the detritus factor. The explosive device that cost me an eye was 18 kg. I was about 100 feet away from the blast. Imagine how far 500 kg of explosive could launch debris.
Boru
In the USAF, I once pulled fire stand-by on a 750-lb bomb that had hung on a rack and then dropped to the ground. EOD went and blew it up the next day. It's one big boom.