GunshipDemocracy wrote: Generally, a 9 gram bullet can kill a 10000 times bigger human.
only if hits in viral organ...
It is hard to imagine, but the onyx is so fast ( from ballistic trajectory ) that the detonation will go just a bit backwards after the explosion of the warhead . Practically all blast and fragments are pushed deeply into the ship after the impact/detonation .And the Kh-22/32 faster .
Hmm but 2,6 Ma this is way below 10Ma (3km/s) or higher where equivalent of mass has same energy as any chemical explosive.
https://www.un.org/disarmament/un-saferguard/kingery-bulmash/
The speed is true for the surface of the explosive at the moment of detonation.
But as the hot gases expand the surface slow down and cool .
If an onyx from 24km height impact the ship with 1 km/sec,and the detonation of the warhead happens at 7 meter deep then the blast never reach the hole punched by the missile on the surface of the ship.
All kinetic energy and explosive energy will be absorbed by the ship internal structures, and the kinetic energy is 50% of the full energy content.
Additionally, the leftover fuel is explode as well.
If the warhead has a 120 kg casing then it will proper the pieces of it by 3 km/sec forward deeply into the ship, penetrating all reinforced structure.
The blast wave at 24ms has 20 meters radius, at that moment the centre of it is 30 meters deep in the ship, and the surface pressure is still 1 bar, I think we can consider it as the lower pressure limit of the bulkheads in the carrier.
If we consider a 1 bar as over-pressure resistance for the bulkheads then the destroyed conical area has 40 meter diameter perpendicular to the penetration vector, and 60 meters long .
So , one p-800 if impact the ship empty, without any remaining fuel will destoy everything in the ship in 56000 cubic meter area that is not blast resistant for 1 bar overpressure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpressure
Considering that by the wiki 0.69 bar is enough to destroy a reinforced concrete structure, and torn limbs off from people, the 1 bar looks enough to take care of the carrier.
The carrier internal volume under the hangar deck could be around 200 000 cubic meter , means one onyx can destroy quarter of that area. At least.
Four onyx can destroy all internal structure in the engineering / machining decks in the carrier, and penetrate/ignite all ammo magazine,and create enough hole to sink it.
One p800 will kill a destroyer .
The best is if the missile impact the ship say 10-20 degree from the deck then the blast wave will be reflected back from the water under the ship, and the same if the onyx hit the ship 5 meters above the waterline, with more than 7 degree angle.