DARPA seeks disruptive approaches to advance bunker-busting weapon physics
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Colton Jones
4d ago· 5 min readenNews
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Summary
DARPA is seeking innovative approaches to improve bunker-busting weapons after the US used its most powerful conventional bombs against a deep underground nuclear facility. While the bombs were effective, they revealed the limits of current penetration physics. DARPA's May 27 request for information calls for "disruptive approaches" to penetration mechanics, aiming to reinvent the physics behind these weapons to overcome hardened, deeply buried targets.
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· 4 pulledThe United States just used its most powerful conventional bombs against the deepest underground nuclear facility in the world.
Those bombs worked — and they also revealed exactly where current physics ends and the next weapons problem begins.
DARPA is now looking for solutions to that problem.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency... published a request for information on May 27, seeking what it calls 'disruptive approaches' to penetration mechanics
The United States just used its most powerful conventional bombs against the deepest underground nuclear facility in the world. Those bombs worked — and they also revealed exactly where current physics ends and the next weapons problem begins. DARPA is no