Talk:Hit-to-kill

A fact from Hit-to-kill appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that hit-to-kill weapons (example pictured) require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy of TNT?

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:17, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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HOE hit-to-kill missile

... that hit-to-kill weapons require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy of TNT? Source: Global

Reviewed: Yawara

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 14:57, 13 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Note: there are three free images on the commons of the HOE, I'm not sure which might be the best. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article

1. 5x expanded – (from 388 characters to 3174 characters) Y
2. Long enough – the prose portion is at least 1,500 characters (3174 alphanumeric characters and 660 words readable prose) Y
3. Within policy – (NPOV, free of COPYVIO and plagiarism) Y
4. Inline citations provided Y

Hook

1. Format – (87 characters) Y
2. Content – (broadly interesting, fact is accurate, neutral) Y
3. Grammar in hook is OK Y

Other

1. QPQ has been done Y
2. Image is free (Public Domain) and used in article Y

Comment: This article is good to go. DiverDave (talk) 16:57, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Kinetic energy weapon[edit]

Hi folks,

It seems like the content of this article overlaps quite a bit with that of Kinetic energy weapon and that we might be better off with one well cited article than two of varying qualities. I have no strong preference as to the eventual title of the article except to say that Kinetic energy weapon (and really, KKV and kinetic projectile, both of which redirect to KEW) seem more prominently used terms for the subject than "hit-to-kill", though that may be a misapprehension on my part. For example, Lazy Dog (bomb) links to "kinetic projectile" which redirects to KEW. Kinetic bombardment links to kinetic projectile as well. Rather than change all the links and redirects it makes much more sense to me to combine the two articles into one. Protonk (talk) 17:13, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with merging the two, but I'd propose retaining KE weapon as the main topic. fgnievinski (talk) 16:23, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense to me as well. Protonk (talk) 23:02, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Absent some other comment I'll try and merge this about a week from now or later. Protonk (talk) 02:51, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done Protonk (talk) 22:51, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]