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Can ICBMs even target Australia? I always figured that if anyone cared to screw with them, it'd be the SLBMs. It's not as if they need more than a (in this case
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
Can ICBMs even target Australia? I always figured that if anyone cared to screw with them, it'd be the SLBMs. It's not as if they need more than a (in this case, literal) boatload to turn it into the Mad Max wasteland. And with Tina Turner gone, who'd even run Bartertown?
- defrost 3y agoMoscow to Perth, Western Australia (overflying the US Naval Communication Station) is 12,000 km. The Chinese DF-5 has that range, the Russian RS-28 Sarmat has a range of 18,000 km. The assumption in the mid 1980s was that any 'first strike' against the US by Russia would first target global radar and submarine commnications with other hard targets stacked up immediately behind .. in order to sow confusion and minimise chances of counter strike orders.