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The B part of ICBM means ballistic, and they are. Thus you can get a useful approximation of where it’s going to land based on the initial trajectory. By usefu
by Retric 2y ago
The B part of ICBM means ballistic, and they are. Thus you can get a useful approximation of where it’s going to land based on the initial trajectory.
By useful I mean you can do significantly better than saying if it’s targeting the middle of the US, east, or west coast. Though it’s quite a large area.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> you can get a useful approximation of where it’s going to land based on the initial trajectory If you’re doing a first strike and aren’t a moron, you conventionally strike the early-warning radars first. Ideally in a plausibly-deniable way.
- Retric 2y agoFirst strike detection isn’t limited to early warning radar or ground based systems except in the very early days of the Cold War. There’s no plausibility deniable way to take these systems down in practice.