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The silo parks in USA are still nuke-proof. Because they are far enough apart that you can't get more than one per hit, and it has to be a low or groundburst, b
by Tuna-Fish 15y ago
The silo parks in USA are still nuke-proof. Because they are far enough apart that you can't get more than one per hit, and it has to be a low or groundburst, but close enough together that the first hit causes a cloud of dust that the subsequent missiles would have to go through to hit their targets. And a nuclear warhead in re-entry has no chance of surviving hitting that dust cloud.
This means that the silos are protecting each other -- you'd need to wait hours between hits to be able to land nukes on all of them. (Or hit them all within the minute.)
- arethuza 15y ago"The silo parks in USA are still nuke-proof" So why the need for launch on warning? If you are confident that your missiles are going to be safe from a first strike you could sit there and take the damage. What you describe sounds more like Dense Pack - which I don't think was ever implemented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_Pack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_Pack