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> Just 125 US Minuteman III warheads could set fire to some 8,000 square miles of forest area where the road-mobile missiles are most likely to be deployed Rus
by kingbirdy 7y ago
> Just 125 US Minuteman III warheads could set fire to some 8,000 square miles of forest area where the road-mobile missiles are most likely to be deployed
Russia has over 3 million square miles of forest, and is over 6 million square miles total. 8,000/3,000,000 seems like pretty poor odds to get all the ICBMs hiding in the woods.
- yborg 7y agoRoad mobile systems deploy onto a set of prebuilt roads connected to their bases, they don't cross-country the impassable taiga since it's ... impassable. These are ballistic missile launchers, they don't fit under bridges, etc. so they can't just drive them around the Siberian interstate.
- mandevil 7y agoThe MKZT-79221 that is the basis for both the Yars and Topol-M TEL is rated for driving off-road, and both TELs are even considered capable of launching off-road. About half of the Russian mobile ICBM force are based in the Volga plain, and the Siberia based half are in mixed forest-steppe zones, because the Russians know their own geography.