They diverted lots of water for irrigation projects - cotton and the like. The problem is that the irrigation networks were rather faulty...lots of leakage, lots of inefficiency. Perhaps make sure that they don't lose 90% of the water running through them and ensure better drainage to avoid...
Well, even with only a few hundred megatons' worth of weapons used, you'd get pretty significant climatic disruptions. Icing on the cake.
Latitude-limited, though. Even a full-up nuclear winter would be survivable. In a way, that's kind of sad...we can't even bring an end to this hideous...
Yeah, but there's a difference between the types of particulate matter kicked up...a significant difference. One's mostly rock dust, the other is smoke from urban fires. And they keep running simulations with increasingly sophisticated models, and the numerical stuff supports their hypotheses.
Did someone mention the BI-1 with the tip-mounted ramjets? (or was it pulsejets?)
Again, here's the thing about most of those interceptors, especially the point-defense models...sure, SAMs didn't lead to interceptors being eliminated outright, but they did render a lot of projects honestly...
Does Australia have significant stocks of U-235, enriched properly?
(Rather silly of them, actually...they're sitting on top of huge reserves of uranium, but they just export the stuff, even though they could do so much if they constructed more power reactors...)
Could they enrich sufficient...
The Romanian fellow was that Coanda guy. The Coanda-1910 aircraft had a motorjet. It set itself on fire during the first taxi test, but at least Coanda figured out the Coanda effect as a result. (Fluid flows stick to surfaces. Put the bowl of a spoon in a narrow stream of water from the tap...)...
The Soviets had some pure rocket-propelled interceptor projects...basically manned, gun-armed SAMs. There was something called the BI-1, after the two designers, Bereznyak and Isaev. (Those were their surnames, of course.)
Not very practical, however.
What could you do with rocket boosters...
There were zero-length launch (ZLL) proposals. During WWII, some British merchant ships carried modified Hurricanes, which were launches using rocket boosters off of miniaturized catapult-analogues, but they were just big launch rails. (Recovery was impossible; the pilot had to ditch and hope...
Well, as mentioned, the N1 was a somewhat badly flawed design...all those engines on the lower stage, for example: very difficult to coordinate and keep stable. The thing exploded spectacularly on all four tests.
It's more than just the N1; the Soviets were mainly interested in practical...
Yep. For All Time. This is the Glorious People's Revolutionary Hammer we're talking about, no doubt. I recall in one discussion, someone said that it would cause nuclear fusion to occur in the atmosphere and consume everything. :rolleyes:
In fact, 250000 megatons is the exact yield of the...