April 20, 2006News & Politics
Kossak RenaF calls attention to the upcoming earth penetrating weapon tests in Nevada.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Divine Strake but were afraid to ask, from Global Security:
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Kossak RenaF calls attention to the upcoming earth penetrating weapon tests in Nevada.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Divine Strake but were afraid to ask, from Global Security:
The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is planned to be a large-yield, buried burst detonated at the Nevada Test Site. Divine Strake would appear to be associated with the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator RNEP, or possibly the B61-11 Earth-Penetrating Weapon, a fact that is obscured in most press coverage. Divine Strake is a high-explosive (HE) test sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The test is a detonation of a 700 ton buried heavy AN/FO charge above a tunnel structure. The main purpose of the test is to study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnel structures. Of secondary interest is the airblast produced by a buried charge and its modification as it propagates over the local terrain. Scheduled for the summer of 2006, as of 01 April 2006 the test was planned for 02 June 2006.I'm getting the feeling that this little fireworks display is as much for the benefit of the American public as for Iran. The administration may realize that using nuclear weapons on Iran is too much. They're getting ready to present the "softer" option of destroying Iran's nuclear program with massive conventional strikes (and ground troops, of course).
DIVINE STRAKE is one of several "DIVINE" efforts under the Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat (HDBTD) program. DIVINE WARHAWK consists of deep underground operational tunnel facility defeat demonstrations using advanced weapons at the White Sands Missile Range. DIVINE HELCAT was a 2004 reconstitution exercise to determine reconstitution time for the C3I tunnel facility at Nevada Test Site (NTS). Also in 2004 planning began for DIVINE HATES, which is a WMD production and storage tunnel complex functional defeat effort.
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