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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 188548, member: 54&quot;]I did some lookups and figgerin&#039; to see if it would work for say a Navy trainable guided missile launcher aboard a warship.&nbsp; The long shank will break in tension over a range of tensions depending on the exact bronze alloy used, but I picked one with a mid-range tensile strength of 40,000 psi.&nbsp; Since the x-sec area of the shank is 0.194 square inches, breaking load in tension would be Somewhere around 7760 lbs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two older Navy guided missiles for which booster thrust figures are available are Talos and Terrier, with 111k and 59k lbs. respectively.&nbsp; All that tells me is that if the missile booster functions correctly there is a 100% probability that the much weaker bronze shank will snap apart and release the missile, which is what the ship&#039;s captain wants of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>But all this mumbo-jumbo doesn&#039;t prove that&#039;s what the dumbbell is, it just means it could be used that way on those two systems.&nbsp; The corrosion resistance of bronze is a good thing for any Navy deck-mounted items such as the now-obsolete trainable launchers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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