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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It seems to be a lot, how does it compare to an artillery shell? The tank doesn't look like it fared too badly.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Artillery shell with 1 kg of TNT has explosion energy of about 1 kg of TNT

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do they actually use TNT as the explosive though? I thought TNT was just the igniter for something more powerful like C4 or something.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think TNT is used at all, I'm pretty sure it's some explosive compound, as you said. However, explosives are still measured in terms of TNT, called Net Explosive Weight (NEW).

For example, one pound of C4 has a NEW of about 1.25 pounds.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looks like it's something like 6-12kg of net explosive content so if that's the same as NEW then it seems that the train has it beat by a fair margin, though I doubt the trains impact is as tightly targeted.