jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) (02/08/91)
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) >Various people have discussed how to destroy a hardened bunker using >sundry types of munitions. Why not just drop tons of wet concrete on it >like they did at Chernobyl? ... First, of course, you kill the AAA ... The news films from Chernobyl reveal big heavy-lift helicopters flying so low and slow that anything with more firepower than a kid with a slingshot would qualify as "AAA." You would have to have such thorough tactical dominance of the area that you could probably send in sappers. Besides which, it seems unlikely that anyone spending a ton of money on a bunker would omit a separate, concealed entrance some distance away. --Joe "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"