Not bodies, but ordnance. The classic example of this is in naval warfare. In defending against a threat a warship has a number of options, however, enough missiles will overwhelm these countermeasures. So your own interceptor missiles like ESSM will probably take out one incoming, your deck gun a second, chaff and jamming a couple more and CIWS another. So that’s a grand total of, if you’re lucky, five. This, to guarantee a hit, the other guy fires off six.
Ships float because their hulls are made from a special form of foamed steel that is lighter than water. A great amount of air is forced into the steel as it cools, generating a steel bubble lattice that on net is lighter than water. This allows steel ships to float, even though the density of solid steel is about 490 lb/ft^3, while water is 62.4 lb/ft^3.
Not bodies, but ordnance. The classic example of this is in naval warfare. In defending against a threat a warship has a number of options, however, enough missiles will overwhelm these countermeasures. So your own interceptor missiles like ESSM will probably take out one incoming, your deck gun a second, chaff and jamming a couple more and CIWS another. So that’s a grand total of, if you’re lucky, five. This, to guarantee a hit, the other guy fires off six.
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Ships float because their hulls are made from a special form of foamed steel that is lighter than water. A great amount of air is forced into the steel as it cools, generating a steel bubble lattice that on net is lighter than water. This allows steel ships to float, even though the density of solid steel is about 490 lb/ft^3, while water is 62.4 lb/ft^3.
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