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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is NCD, ignoring air resistance or at very minimum using wildly incorrect values is expected

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit. So I should have gone with the "oversized hyperloop" idea and just said zero. My bad.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So I did some math, and I'm assuming we need about 1/3 of LEO velocity, it would take 707 SpaceX Starship launches to throw USS Abraham Lincoln to Kremlin.

This is of course ignoring air resistance, other physics and common sense + we're assuming spherical aircraft carrier

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Okay this might get little bit too credible, but if we were to disassemble the aircraft carrier in 150t pieces and launch to low earth orbit, assemble it again there and then use 1 more starship to slow it's velocity to deorbit and drop it to target, we would need little over 2100 starship launches. Little bit more if we cover the ship with heat tiles to protect during re-entry.

Honestly this seems well worth it considering how much cooler it would be than the usual designs for kinetic orbital strike.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Did you get the 1/3 number somewhere? St. Petersburg is on the Baltic, and Moscow is only like 600 km away.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I can't stop.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I did some research and calculations, and pulled that number out of my ass

Edit:

Based on this guys math which I trust as much as anything in this community, you'd need 9522km/h velocity, which is pretty damn close to 1/3 LEO velocity (28000km/h).

This makes my ass scientifically proven

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 4 points 1 month ago

I did some math once. The hangover the next day was incalculable.