Probably depends entirely on the aerodynamics involved, if we’re assuming it’s approaching as an aircraft. This is kind of an intermediate range, and it has shitty ballistics, so the energy to just get it off the ground will be dwarfed.
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
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.
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)
Probably depends entirely on the aerodynamics involved, if we’re assuming it’s approaching as an aircraft. This is kind of an intermediate range, and it has shitty ballistics, so the energy to just get it off the ground will be dwarfed.
Remember your college physics: First Rule - we can ignore aerodynamics.
I would say a rock is a better approximation than an aircraft lmao
If you throw it, and it doesn’t go into space, a rock is an aircraft.
Source: Am an airforce geologist. /s
This is NCD, ignoring air resistance or at very minimum using wildly incorrect values is expected
Shit. So I should have gone with the “oversized hyperloop” idea and just said zero. My bad.
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
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.
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.
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)
I did some math once. The hangover the next day was incalculable.