the funny part is. that when this is quoted in later history books , is how it'll be signed:
"The Things that will be set in motion these next few days will change the course of Humanity forever."
il Donaldo Trumpo,
ilpresidento
this might all be MOOT now, but i did this anyway
i'm going to do a quick sanity check, to see if this is even in the ballpark, so making a few assumptions, about the Kinzhal. lets just say it has the same mass as an AGM-129 3500lbs and lets take them at their word, that it's doing mach 10 (maybe it's going faster, maybe it's going slower)
and also.. just ignoring any warhead it may have on board
converting everything to metric
3500lbs = 1588 kg, lets just say 1600kg and mach 10,,. at sea level 3313 m/s, lets just call it 3300 m/s
the kinetic energy . KE = (1/2) 1600kg * 3300^2(m/s) or KE = 8,712,000,000 Joules that's 8.712 Gigajoules and that's without any warhead going off
so using another table/calculator i found here https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=joules&k2=atomic-bomb-[nuclear-weapon]
I can convert your glide bomb with a 1500lb warhead (680kg) to giga joules I used Kilograms of TNT to gigajoules as the conversion 680 Kilograms of TNT work out to 2.84512 Gigajoules
8.712>2.84512
so assuming.. that warhead weight is equivalent to KG of TNT, , and assuming that a 1500lb(warhead size) glide bomb could penetrate 400 feet of rock along with layers of steel, than, the Kinzhal missle has more than enough energy to penetrate (completely disregarding any warhead it would have).
that being said, i'm not fully confident of those assumptions(you would likely know better than me),., but it makes for an interesting sanity check, and the results are a definite maybe.
you might be right, but one thing to think about, is that Kinetic energy goes up with the square of the velocity, ,
KE = (1/2)mv^2
if it really is going mach 10, instead of say, even mach 5 or 6, it isn't simply double the energy, it's to the square, giving it much much greater penetrating power
there was a webpage years and years ago, that had as a project to list and show photographs of everysingle one of these sensors, and also to show how the area has built up, along with the FUDGE factors that were used to "correct" the tempatures, , they showed how invalid the numbers being used were, I have not been able to find that webpage in over 15 years. more than one of the sensors literally had a brand new taxiway built next to it that had hot jet exhust blowing on it
it's a telegraph to US, that what we are about to see is staged, and a Telegraph to the blackhats,that will lead them to make bad decisions.