Thank you for this very well explained article on the novel mechanisms and chemical reactions of various metals at extremes of high temperature, pressure and shock, Mike.
Why the puppet show? If you are going all out, hit the City of London, or the survival bunkers under Zurich. Go for the head, not for the twitching tail.
International Bank of Settlements would be a good target too, while it is technically inside Switzerland, it's bit like Vatican, except even more shadowy - Swiss have no authority over it or their employees (IBS employees cannot be arrested for _any_ crime and Swiss police cannot enter the IBS premises)
Meh, nobody will bat an eye at Russia bombing something in Ukraine.
By turning the EU complex into dust however, Russia would accomplish several goals.
1: Becoming more popular with a wide swath of the EU public.
2: The EU would be forced to throw reconstruction funds at Belgium and apparatchik relatives instead of Ukraine.
3: Most importantly: It would expose the EU as the paper tiger it is. What exactly would they do? Declare war and realize that nobody is signing up? Send the Belgian army (lol!) and a few hundred German tanks, their entire inventory?
Trying to recall all the two component exothermic alloying reactions. As an example, alloying one mol of iron with on mol of chromium releases 18kj of energy, producing a kilogram quantity of such an alloy releases nearly 180kj.
Not a gigantic output but provides a bit more heat for some applications (like underwater thermitic cutting tools using mixed iron and chromium oxides + aluminum as a reducing agent & Teflon to decompose and "pressurize the effluent"). See:
Expect slight radioactivity, about 10-20x background gamma and residues of short lived neutron activation products, also enriched Uranium. Temperature of the cold fusion reaction is in excess of 5000degrees. Material is deuterium in Uranium. Technology has been and is used by Israel in Lebanon and Gaza.The enriched Uranium was detected and reported by my organization for Lebanon, Gaza and Fallujah and also in a 2021 Nature paper. System is described approximately in Emilio del Guidice and Maurizio Torrealta: The secret of the three bullets.
Trump's task is a war with Iran. That's what he promised in order to be allowed to be elected, and that's what he will deliver. The Syria coup was the prelude to that, Turkey and the Syrian jihadists will provide the boots on the ground, and US and Israel the air supremacy and satellite surveillance. What is conspicuously missing, though, is functional AD---that expected air supremacy might prove a mirage.
Disagree: I think he got on board with the idea of the North-American Union, which NAFTA was intended to pave a way toward. The military adventures of the Neocons have ultimately failed to bring the kinds of returns promised, so retrenchment is in the cards.
In any event, the NAU angle explains why the globalist response to his electoral victory has been so tepid, and why various figures have actively "bent the knee" to him of late.
The Syria coup wasn't the prelude to anything. It was the end of Syria and US and partners spend decades over it. But happened because Syria collapsed not because Biden (and certainly not Trump) pushed that much harder for it in 2024.
If anything Turkey was the only country making an effort.
If Israel or USA determine to attack Iran it will be rapidly the end of Israel. and probably the US relationship with Saudi. Might happen, but not because Syria blew over after 5 years flapping in the wind.
It is interesting that just six hits out of 36 showed the "volcano" effect. My take on that is that one of the six compound warheads was loaded with a different, experimental payload than the remaining five, which were presumably six solid tungsten penetrators each. After all, this was a field test of the Oreshnik, so it is reasonable that they tested the more experimental warhead at the same time.
Interesting take on the topic. One would expect some ceramic outer layer to reduce oxidation as it travels through the atmosphere,seeing as metals are generally quite reactive at such high temperatures.
1. The projectile's travel time is just seconds; for oxidation to diffuse through solid material, even at these temperatures, takes orders of magnitude longer. Ablation would be a problem, but there is little ceramics can do about that, and they have lower density than metals. a crucial consideration.
2. I do not think oxidation is even possible at such temperatures, 3000K or thereabout; dissociation of molecules is more likely than combination.
Very hard to estimate because it will be ejecta and depression. It will also depend of the type of soil. In the initial impact, it will probably be the diameter of the warhead because the sheer velocity. Also if the warhead hits are programmed to hit in circular or elliptical pattern, the combine affect may create bigger crater.
Sources tell me those volcanos are still going. It seems as though they are being directed, like drones made of Lava. They are heading for Zelensky's bunker even now.
Sources also say that the volcanos were in the shape if Putins face and that he mouthed words that made grown men cry in fear and awe.
Sources from inside Zelensky's top team have said the Zelensky has spent every minute since the attack crying and Ukraine will unconditionally surrender as soon as his hand stops trembling enough to pick up the phone.
Some people may say that unnamed and unattributed 'sources' allegedly providing detailed, on the ground reporting from a high secutriy area to some random guy on the Internet may not be reliable. To them I say that President Trump personally confided in me that despite Russia's economy and technology being years behind America, he's secretly terrified of the Lava drones finding the White House and that's why he wants to buy Greenland. Only the snow and ice can slow them down!
Just to be absolutely clear this "Russia will soon have hundreds of Oreshnik missiles ready, and NATO has nothing (even on the drawing boards) to intercept them." is obviously total bollocks. Even if Russia did have the spare capacity to build hundreds of ICBMs (even with the magical abilities described in these articles) have you heard of nuclear weapons? NATO has a few of these and they are rather more effective than making a few 'glowing' potholes in the ground. Russia touches off an unauthorised IC(R)BM launch...and Russia vanishes under thousands of multi-magaton explosives.
Once again, you have chosen SUCH a precisely accurate screen name!
Multi megaton strategic weapons are a thing of the past. There are no longer "thousands of multi-magaton (sic, do you ever proof read your posts?) explosives" available to either side, in a brief fit of sanity, those early 1960s ICBM CP tech level nuclear weapons were mostly dismantled and their nuclear materials "up cycled" starting 3 decades ago.
Oh, and it is "screen name", not "screen name". Also, interestingly, "proofread", not "proof read" and "upcycle" not "up cycle". Personally, I, quite clearly, don't care but as it is important to you, perhaps you should proofread your posts?
I don't see the point in proof reading my responses to screeds like this one. No on reading the article has an interest in critical engagement or they would find it as laughable as I do, and the meaning is demonstrably clear enough. Happy to roll it back to "thousands of multi-kiloton explosions" though. The detail is largely meaningless, the point, however, remains.
Not that it matters, but whilst I'm on the subject, if NATO has nothing even conceptualised that can Intercept them...what happened to the SM-3 block IIAs?
Thank you for this very well explained article on the novel mechanisms and chemical reactions of various metals at extremes of high temperature, pressure and shock, Mike.
Thank you.
I'm including it in the post I'm composing. Thank You again.
Please Putin! Do the EU parlament next!
Why the puppet show? If you are going all out, hit the City of London, or the survival bunkers under Zurich. Go for the head, not for the twitching tail.
International Bank of Settlements would be a good target too, while it is technically inside Switzerland, it's bit like Vatican, except even more shadowy - Swiss have no authority over it or their employees (IBS employees cannot be arrested for _any_ crime and Swiss police cannot enter the IBS premises)
The ideal target would be the huge underground natgas storage silos in the west of Uke, around Lviv.
In an instant, 25% of EU strategic natgas reserves would go up in a monster fireball, and collapse the economy
Meh, nobody will bat an eye at Russia bombing something in Ukraine.
By turning the EU complex into dust however, Russia would accomplish several goals.
1: Becoming more popular with a wide swath of the EU public.
2: The EU would be forced to throw reconstruction funds at Belgium and apparatchik relatives instead of Ukraine.
3: Most importantly: It would expose the EU as the paper tiger it is. What exactly would they do? Declare war and realize that nobody is signing up? Send the Belgian army (lol!) and a few hundred German tanks, their entire inventory?
Don’t worry the melting is already going.
Excellent analysis of this underwrap super terrifying weapons capabilities
As always, as great read Mike. H/T to Piquet too!
Is Russia stockpiling Oreshniks or are they delivering to their friends (re: Sanaa)?
Thank you
I found your review today. I found it very insightful. I thought you might be interested in a series of queations I posed to Grok last week https://x.com/i/grok/share/0fYvBTqW3t9K87eLA2Ffz9PWi
Fascinating science. People who care are the ones who think novel thoughts I’d say.
Haven’t seen any evidence for the novel in NATO.
Trying to recall all the two component exothermic alloying reactions. As an example, alloying one mol of iron with on mol of chromium releases 18kj of energy, producing a kilogram quantity of such an alloy releases nearly 180kj.
Not a gigantic output but provides a bit more heat for some applications (like underwater thermitic cutting tools using mixed iron and chromium oxides + aluminum as a reducing agent & Teflon to decompose and "pressurize the effluent"). See:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5372069A/en
No mention of plasma ... at all .... nothing to see here folks!
Expect slight radioactivity, about 10-20x background gamma and residues of short lived neutron activation products, also enriched Uranium. Temperature of the cold fusion reaction is in excess of 5000degrees. Material is deuterium in Uranium. Technology has been and is used by Israel in Lebanon and Gaza.The enriched Uranium was detected and reported by my organization for Lebanon, Gaza and Fallujah and also in a 2021 Nature paper. System is described approximately in Emilio del Guidice and Maurizio Torrealta: The secret of the three bullets.
Since the West is convinced that Russia will not use this weapon on them, they do not care.
Deterrence is worthless if your enemy know you never will use it.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/to-avoid-fighting-large-conflicts-trump-is-creating-smaller-ones.html
Trump seems to be seeking to avoid conflict with Russia or even China and talking up small conflicts like Panama or Greenland.
For the exiting leaders of the west (pretty much all of them) denial is actually a sensible policy.
Trump's task is a war with Iran. That's what he promised in order to be allowed to be elected, and that's what he will deliver. The Syria coup was the prelude to that, Turkey and the Syrian jihadists will provide the boots on the ground, and US and Israel the air supremacy and satellite surveillance. What is conspicuously missing, though, is functional AD---that expected air supremacy might prove a mirage.
Disagree: I think he got on board with the idea of the North-American Union, which NAFTA was intended to pave a way toward. The military adventures of the Neocons have ultimately failed to bring the kinds of returns promised, so retrenchment is in the cards.
In any event, the NAU angle explains why the globalist response to his electoral victory has been so tepid, and why various figures have actively "bent the knee" to him of late.
The Syria coup wasn't the prelude to anything. It was the end of Syria and US and partners spend decades over it. But happened because Syria collapsed not because Biden (and certainly not Trump) pushed that much harder for it in 2024.
If anything Turkey was the only country making an effort.
If Israel or USA determine to attack Iran it will be rapidly the end of Israel. and probably the US relationship with Saudi. Might happen, but not because Syria blew over after 5 years flapping in the wind.
Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
@Feral Finster
No disagreements there. What are YOU going to do about it?
No no no, it’s the greater Israel in the making, US, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Panama, Palestine, Jordan, Iran, Taiwan.
Hilarious
It is interesting that just six hits out of 36 showed the "volcano" effect. My take on that is that one of the six compound warheads was loaded with a different, experimental payload than the remaining five, which were presumably six solid tungsten penetrators each. After all, this was a field test of the Oreshnik, so it is reasonable that they tested the more experimental warhead at the same time.
Interesting take on the topic. One would expect some ceramic outer layer to reduce oxidation as it travels through the atmosphere,seeing as metals are generally quite reactive at such high temperatures.
Time will tell.
1. The projectile's travel time is just seconds; for oxidation to diffuse through solid material, even at these temperatures, takes orders of magnitude longer. Ablation would be a problem, but there is little ceramics can do about that, and they have lower density than metals. a crucial consideration.
2. I do not think oxidation is even possible at such temperatures, 3000K or thereabout; dissociation of molecules is more likely than combination.
@RalfB
You don't work in pyrotechnics and energetic materials, very clearly.
👍precision “meteorite strike”😉
What would be the diameter of the crater left at the surface, if there is a penetration to 40-50 metres? Is is possible to estimate?
Very hard to estimate because it will be ejecta and depression. It will also depend of the type of soil. In the initial impact, it will probably be the diameter of the warhead because the sheer velocity. Also if the warhead hits are programmed to hit in circular or elliptical pattern, the combine affect may create bigger crater.
Useful, thanks!
So no antimatter used at all?
Sources tell me those volcanos are still going. It seems as though they are being directed, like drones made of Lava. They are heading for Zelensky's bunker even now.
Sources also say that the volcanos were in the shape if Putins face and that he mouthed words that made grown men cry in fear and awe.
Sources from inside Zelensky's top team have said the Zelensky has spent every minute since the attack crying and Ukraine will unconditionally surrender as soon as his hand stops trembling enough to pick up the phone.
Some people may say that unnamed and unattributed 'sources' allegedly providing detailed, on the ground reporting from a high secutriy area to some random guy on the Internet may not be reliable. To them I say that President Trump personally confided in me that despite Russia's economy and technology being years behind America, he's secretly terrified of the Lava drones finding the White House and that's why he wants to buy Greenland. Only the snow and ice can slow them down!
Just to be absolutely clear this "Russia will soon have hundreds of Oreshnik missiles ready, and NATO has nothing (even on the drawing boards) to intercept them." is obviously total bollocks. Even if Russia did have the spare capacity to build hundreds of ICBMs (even with the magical abilities described in these articles) have you heard of nuclear weapons? NATO has a few of these and they are rather more effective than making a few 'glowing' potholes in the ground. Russia touches off an unauthorised IC(R)BM launch...and Russia vanishes under thousands of multi-magaton explosives.
@DeludedProphet
Once again, you have chosen SUCH a precisely accurate screen name!
Multi megaton strategic weapons are a thing of the past. There are no longer "thousands of multi-magaton (sic, do you ever proof read your posts?) explosives" available to either side, in a brief fit of sanity, those early 1960s ICBM CP tech level nuclear weapons were mostly dismantled and their nuclear materials "up cycled" starting 3 decades ago.
Oh, and it is "screen name", not "screen name". Also, interestingly, "proofread", not "proof read" and "upcycle" not "up cycle". Personally, I, quite clearly, don't care but as it is important to you, perhaps you should proofread your posts?
I don't see the point in proof reading my responses to screeds like this one. No on reading the article has an interest in critical engagement or they would find it as laughable as I do, and the meaning is demonstrably clear enough. Happy to roll it back to "thousands of multi-kiloton explosions" though. The detail is largely meaningless, the point, however, remains.
Not that it matters, but whilst I'm on the subject, if NATO has nothing even conceptualised that can Intercept them...what happened to the SM-3 block IIAs?