what would happen if a cruise missile hit the hoover dam?

>>32488917
An independent New Vegas collapses as their source of electricity is permanently destroyed. Also, Raul never finds himself :(

>>32488917

The same thing that would happen if one hit a nuclear power plant.

Nothing.

>>32488917
>>32488936
As long as the dam is not on the hands of the Legion, I am fine with that.

>>32488917
Thinly veiled 50 cent thread? Thinly veiled 50 cent thread.
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>>32488917
How hard is to break those things? would a truck full of explosives do it?

Unlike Three Gorges, I don't think all that many people live in the river basin downstream of the dam. Vegas would dry up and blow away, and the loss of hydroelectric power would cause a huge problem on the Western grid, but "direct" casualties would be few.

>>32489026

They are built with things like that in mind. You could pepper it with RPG rounds all day and they would just come in the next day to patch the scratches you put there.

>>32488917

Mr.House would never allow it.

>>32489026

You see how there is a road on top of it? and those little cars?

The thing is, at it's thinnest, as thick as a two lane road plus change, of solid reinforced concrete. And it gets thicker towards the bottom.

It's pretty dam tough.

>>32489116
Well you don't need to blow all the way through it, you only need weaken it's structural integrity. I'm sure a couple trucks filled with explosives aught to do enough.

>>32489167
No, not really. It's built to last.

You think that this wasn't thought of and had measures put in place to stop it? It would take a fucking lot.

>>32489167
If you took the truck from OKC bombing, and multiplied that by about 120, so 120 Penske trucks full of ANFO, you might do enough damage to put it out of commission for a month.

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if hoover dam was built nowadays it'd probably fall apart in under a year.

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>>32489116
>It's pretty dam tough.

>>32488917
You would waste a perfectly good missile on an extremely hard target.

So let's say that due to *words words words* the dam has to be demolished. How do you go about doing it? Tons of C4? Undermining? Illegal immigrants with chisels?

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>>32488917
Read the book, "The Wave" by Christopher Hyde. I have the original from 1979 and in spite of its age it fits in with modern day terrorist scenarios quite well, better than most actually.

Synopsis: basically a false-flag terrorist incident at The Mica Dam in British Columbia. Resulting collapse and wave that follows the Columbia River, wiping out each successive dam, towns, and structures, downstream that adds to the destruction. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation favours prominently in the story. Quite brutal.

The author did a lot of research into the effects so the book is rooted in a realistic what-if scenario. Everything he describes can happen. Also, as he states in the introduction, the geology study of the region around the Mica by BC Hydro is still secret to his day and they refuse to release the study. There are long-standing fears that slope instability above the dam could lead to a Vaiont dam (Italy 1963) like failure and cause a disaster on an epic scale.

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The Hoover Dam would probably be difficult as hell to destroy because of the concrete thickness. Nukes for sure. Where-as the Mica Dam is a grouted earth fill type, way more susceptable to collapse and would only need water going over it to erode it away. Lookup 'Grand Teton Dam failure'. A sobering read.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

Hoover Dam is going to be like the pyramids. Now, that dam in Iraq on the other hand, that could turn out like some of the old school floods in China.

>>32489026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPxqy0noLd8

>>32489026
Very hard, as it's the strongest dam ever made or something like that

>>32489026
Unless we decide to tear it down that dam is going to outlast humanity

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>>32489062
>>32489116
>>32489214
>>32491858
>>32492906

Thanks anons. I will tell my friend Abdul that is not possible.

Just use a 155mm IED, that'll blow a good hole in it, a couple of em in strategic locations should do the trick

Well it depends on if Davis Damn could withhold the surge.

Global warming is already making sure there's no water in it so there's no point.

Just wait a few years for it to dry up.

>>32488936
You know that like all of the power goes to LA, right? Vegas has gas plants.

>>32488981
>not wanting an autocratic, militaristic, homogenous society
Profligates like you belong on a cross.

>>32489053
>loss of hydroelectric power would cause a huge problem on the Western grid
Nope. The Hoover dam isn't that significant in terms of power generation. It's capable of producing more, but its current use is water retention, not power generation.

>>32488917
Colorado river flows again, restoring hundreds of miles of river ecosystem after a few decades of being fucked. Arizona finally gets water again. California loses a very large chunk of their power supply. I see not too much wrong with this.

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How well would a bunker buster work?

>>32494839
I hope you are using a MOP.

>>32494471
>the joke
>you

KNOW THE LORE

its few thousand tons of concrete it ain't going nowwhere unless the cruisemissle is nuclear

>>32489116
>pretty dam tough

stop it