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US needs atleast 30 MIRV // MITRV inside submerged submarines at all times, to be succesfull in MAD US means it can be US + UK because reasons.
by AreYouSirius 5y ago
US needs atleast 30 MIRV // MITRV inside submerged submarines at all times, to be succesfull in MAD
US means it can be US + UK because reasons.
- dandotway 5y agoUS could lose all SLBM nuclear missile subs and still assure destruction, because of the triad. Land based ICBMs are more accurate than SLBMs and would launch in retaliation. The US has stealth cruise missiles it can launch from bombers. The US has the B1 and B2 bombers that can deliver nukes. Many Navy ships can launch nuclear cruise missiles. The USA is the only superpower that has such robust nuclear weapons delivery via a triad (land, air, sea). With Russian SLBM subs it is said they are so noisy that US attack subs are always silently tailing them after they leave port and can take them out before they can launch. Russia and China really only have robust land-based ICBMs. If all of those could be preemptively attacked (by stealth strikes and commando raids) then the US could potentially win a nuclear war. Not that we'd want to try.
- whatshisface 5y agoI have a hard time imagining the odds of raiding every silo in Russia at the same moment.
- remarkEon 5y agoI have a hard time imagining that all their silos (or ours) would work as expected.
- whatshisface 5y agoI think if the silo fails they make an airman drive out with a can opener.
- thuccess129 5y ago1 or 2 hour global fracorbit strike on demand fries every submarine tracked from newspace capability in the Atlantindopac is next level MAD.