Is it possible to build a kinetic energy bomb?

[Chimpy]

@Squink

Weren’t some of the dam busters used in WWII designed to spin, so that when they sank to the bottom of the reservior behind a targeted dam, they’d go zipping along the bottom until they struck the dam?

I always thought the spinning nature of the dambuster bombs was first to cause them to skip the nets that prevented a submarine attack in the front of the dam and secondly to cause them to roll to the bottom of the dam so the most damage was inflicted on the dam.

[Squink]

I always thought the spinning nature of the dambuster bombs was first to cause them to skip the nets…

It looks like you’re right, they skipped on the surface:
Big&Bouncy:TheSpecialWeaponsofBarnesWallis
The Dambusters

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@ouryL

Unless they were *evil *gerbils!!
:eek:

Commie Gerbils!
Ghodless Red East German Commie Gerbils! Wearing fluorescent Pink Weskets!

Or…something.