Launch clamp conections aren't indestructable

[leax256]

I have always thought that a connection with a launch clamp could never be broken unless the object it is connected to breaks. well...the video says it all.

I don't know what to say.

[Tiron]

No connection is unbreakable. Even if you turn on unbreakable connections, it just makes them absurdly strong, not actually unbreakable.

[leax256]

but I've never seen a single conection break till now.

[NoMrBond]

I broke some testing an N1 mockup, interestingly it wasn't igniting more than 30MN of thrust under it, it was switching it off that did it

I hit X to kill the engines and the recoil from the engine shutdown threw the whole fuel stack downward with such force it broke off 4 of the 6 stabilisers

[The Destroyer]

I've always seen it happen if I don't put enough clamps on a heavy ship.

[KerbMav]

Even without Deadly Reentry my not really big Eve probe assembly (satellite, ground probe and interplanetary stage) broke apart due to gravimetric stress and went poof - short on fuel and not much experience with aerobreaking ... 8000m/s at ca. 30000m altitude ... nope.