How I learned to Love the Atomic Bomb
The two means by which energy is released in a nuclear weapon
What is fusion and Fision?
These are the two main way warheads deal damage
What is Blast and Fragmentation?
The brains are not in the missile. In other words, a simple, direct means of guiding a rocket or missile.
What is Command Guidance?
This i when a received signal's strength is high enough above the noise floor that a human operator
What is Detection Threshold?
The primarchs are demigod immortal being created by the God Emperor of mankind in the warhammer 40k setting. It's a big family. This is the number of them created.
What is 20?
Of fusion and fission, this is the more powerful
What is fusion
The phrase that annoying guy sitting next to you on the plane keeps rattling off as he tries to backseat game. Also a specialized munition that opens up and drops an expanding swarm of sub munitions.
What is a cluster bomb?
You can't tell me what to do mom! This style of guidance takes in no outside command signals. Often using stars, terrain mapping or GPS.
What is self-contained Guidance?
This is the term used to talk about how narrowly a sonar can focus its angle of listening.
What is Directivity Index
The primarchs are demigod immortal being created by the God Emperor of mankind, being a big family they often had spats and fought eachother usually on a galactic scale. This is the number of primarchs confirmed to still be alive or at least not dead.
What is 14?
This is both the name and type of bomb dropped on Hiroshima
What is the Little boy, a gun type bomb
MOAB
What is the Massive Ordnance Air Burst?
Homing Missiles come in various flavors: active, semi-active, passive. Passive have a major advantage.
What is fire and forget?
A merchant ships engine, dolphins, underwater earthquake. These are all examples of . . . .
What is Ambient Noise.
This submarine class, which has the largest displacement in the world, had its own hot tub and sauna. The missile went on the outside
What is the typhoon class submarine?
What is Iron?
This type of warhead was first used in the german Panzerfaust. It produces a molten stream of copper that burns through armor.
What is a shaped Charge/ Shaped Explosive?
Homing Missiles come in various flavors: active, semi-active, passive. Semi-active have a major advantage.
What is the firing unit has a larger radar then the missile?
Merchant Ships, sonar, screwblades are examples of . . .
Dolphins, rain, underwater volcanos are examples of . . . .
What is Narrowband, and Broadband tonals?
This is the answer the following riddle. A man riding a horse enters a town on friday, stays three nights, and leaves on Sunday.
What is the horses name is Friday or Sunday?
This is the broad stroke process a fusion bomb uses
What is an implosion style fission bomb explodes creating immense pressure and heat, which compresses the fusion fuel creating a fusion reaction.
These are different ways a naval mine can be set off. (Name Five)
DAILY DOUBLE
What is moored, Propelled, Oscilating (drifting), Bottom mines?
Write the passive sonar equation.
What is SL+DI-TL-NL= DT?
SL -> Signal Level
DI -> Directionality Index
NL -> Noise Level (at reciever)
DT -> Detection Threshhold
"A man, a plan, a canal, panama!" is an example of this
What is a palindrome.