No, this really isnt about terrorism, but a question on plastic explosives and destructive potential.
In chat we were talking and plastique came up. I wondered how much damage would a C-131 filled as full as it could (and still fly) with plastique do if flown over a city and detonated? (if that much wouldn’t go off at once, just pretend it would, please).
I dont want to hear about the impracticality of this, i just want to know how much damage would an explosion from that much plastique cause.
Numerous tons of explosive going off at optimum altitude over a densly populated city ?
Blimey I’m not playing monopoly against you if that’s your leisure time thinking!!!
Hope you don’t have a gun licnecne 
Let’s assume you mean C-130.
Payload is 45,000 lbs.
C4 Plastic explosive’s TNT Equivalence is 118%.
If my math is correct we’re looking at an explosion equal to 26.55 tons of TNT.
Should make a pretty good thump 
Imagine all the car alarms going off…
If it’s reasonably low it will flatten the cars. Look what happened in Oklahoma City with a much smaller ANfo bomb.
You are a worrying person and you should consider take up an innocent hobby like basket weaving, goldfish keeping or something! Anyway, if you are looking to aim at a big city, I suppose that at least leaves Lockerbie out.
Gee, I speculate on how powerful a C-131 packed to capacity with plastique is, and i’m branded a nut! Have i not proven myself pretty grounded since i’ve been on the boards? (i know, y’all are kidding)