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If you fire a custom 82mm Bazooka at a mosquito 5cm away from you with a semi-nuclear hydrogen enhanced warhead, what will be the results?

Answer 1

It explodes down range, maybe with the now dead mosquito smeared across the warhead, and creates a cloud of radioactive material.

WARNING: I am taking this question seriously, if you want a joke go somewhere else. If this is an attempted joke by the questioner then it is a pretty poor one and has no place on Yahoo Answers.

So you want to know what a Chinese mortar sized warhead will do when you fire it. It will explode, with a bright flash, and generate a radioactive cloud, somewhere away from the launcher.

As for the mosquito it doesn't have enough mass to trigger the detonation, and most rockets or missiles have a safety that prevents them from exploding so close to the weapon. So the mosquito will probably be smeared across the front of the warhead. If the mosquito were near the edge of the warhead’s flight path then it would be killed by the force of the traveling warhead (even the shock wave created by the warhead passing by would be enough to kill it). This mosquito’s body could possibly be burnt up in the exhaust of the system propelling the warhead.

One standard in the US Army is the 81mm Mortar. During the Korean War the Chinese wanted to be able to use captured ammunition, but not let the US or South Korean soldiers use Chinese ammunition. So they made there mortars just slightly larger. A Chinese made mortar can fire a US mortar round, but a Chinese Mortar round won't fit into the barrel, since the Chinese use an 82 mm mortar round.

Most missiles and rockets have a contact detonation system, especially those that are too small to hold a superior guidance system. It takes a certain amount of force to detonate these warheads. Normally that force is stronger than what a human can exert on the warhead while loading it. So that means the tiny mosquito can't exert enough energy against the warhead to detonate it. The warhead will continue to travel until it either meets something strong enough to detonate against or it falls to the ground and detonates. Therefore the warhead explodes somewhere down range.

Nuclear weapons are complex weapons that require a near critical mass of either uranium or plutonium which is forced together under explosive energy to create the nuclear reaction that results in an atomic explosion. A nuclear bomb either works or it doesn't. There is no such thing as a semi-atomic explosion. Exploding a nuclear bomb without starting the chain reaction just creates a dirty bomb, which spreads a cloud of radioactive material.

Hydrogen is a flammable gas than can be ignited and burned easily. A fusion bomb causes the hydrogen atoms to fuse together and create the element helium. This reaction takes huge pressure and high temperatures, conditions that can only be found inside of a star or inside of a nuclear explosion. A hydrogen bomb uses an atomic bomb to set it off. It requires an a-bomb as an igniter. A normal explosion, no matter how great doesn’t have enough energy to create a fusion reaction. So your cloud of radioactive material will have a lot of hydrogen in it. The temperature of the explosion of the warhead is enough to ignite the hydrogen, making it burn. If the bomb is geared to explode the hydrogen then it will explode adding a little extra force to the explosion. If the hydrogen is applied to the surface of the bomb then most of it will just be blown away. The metal will be hot enough to ignite it, but it may not be hot enough to create an explosion. In fact the hydrogen will not be confined so it will only spread out in a burning cloud, which will expire quickly, creating a bright flash.

The result of launching your warhead is a normal explosion with a bright flash from the hydrogen and a cloud of radiation.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You and the skeeter gonna be gone. And alot of what is around you.

Answer 4

assuming that you dont blow yourself up, i would think that at 5cm + anything within the path of the projectile would be incinerated...

Answer 5

2 dead mosquitos

Answer 6

a dead skeeter.....