Elevators and fifty-ton blast doors would be operated manually, at best. ' Rather than physically damaging an underground facility, this would effectively destroy the power supply and any electronics, leaving it dark, cut off from communications, and with no air circulation. The latest budget document reveals that tests of the rocket balls were concluded successfully last year, so they may well be on the menu.ДЄlternative payloads mentioned for attacking WMD include thermobarics, 'novel thermal based payloads,' and, perhaps most surprisingly, a 'directed energy payload.' (That's mil-speak for real-life ray guns.) This suggests some sort of electromagnetic pulse e-bomb-style weapon it is described as 'a counter WMD deny/disrupt mission concept. One option is a warhead loaded with the rocket balls we looked at last year вЂ“ technically, 'kinetic fireball incendiaries.' These are hollow spheres of rubberised rocket fuel that, bounce around when released - smashing through doors and burning up everything in the facility with their high-temperature exhaust. Explosives are risky against WMD targets, and incendiaries may not destroy the whole facility. Elsewhere in the agency's proposed budget for 2010, the agency describes a range of payloads planned for bunker busters. IPODS looks like it may take a similar approach, but perhaps using something even bigger.ДTRA is also planning their own 'advanced payloads' specifically for the MOP to destroy weapons of mass destruction. Instead of hitting vertically, the bomb is skipped off the ground in front of the door and goes through horizontally. Air Force has looked at 'skip bombing' with bunker-busting munitions to attack tunnel doors using a special guidance system. As Danger Room revealed previously, the U.S. One key strand is the Integrated Precision Ordnance Delivery System (IPODS), which will destroy targets 'far down a tunnel.' How? Rather than simply hitting the bunker, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is aiming for a small target вЂ“ those vulnerable blast doors at the tunnel's mouth. They're doing it with a combination of improved guidance, 'novel payloads'. Defense Threat Reduction Agency has an ambitious goal of developing a bunker buster five times as strong as the current models by the end of the year, and ten times more powerful by 2013. It's a tricky problem to do it, you need something out of the ordinary. North Korea may be readying another nuclear test - one of many reasons why the Pentagon is stepping up efforts to neutralize hardened bunkers, packed with weapons of mass destruction.

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