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re: ICBM Nuclear Missiles
Posted on 4/28/25 at 11:59 am to IAmNERD
Posted on 4/28/25 at 11:59 am to IAmNERD
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The problem is that ANY missile defense network can be overwhelmed just by saturation.
Yea that's the problem. Modern nuclear weapons can have up to like 9 warheads, some of which may be dummy heads.
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Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:00 pm to 777Tiger
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a friend of mine in the Navy has been involved with some pretty cool SDI type of stuff over the last few years, that any of it has made it into the media indicates. it's either pretty advanced/successful or maybe intentional?
It's tricky - if you keep a really good system secret, it may not deter the other side. If you reveal you have a good system, they might double their warheads or work harder to improve them.
A very delicate balance is required in a MAD world.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:01 pm to dallaslsufan
I know a guy that is a Ground Test Director for US Missile Command. I assure you we can intercept ICBMs.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:02 pm to Ace Midnight
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A very delicate balance is required in a MAD world.
agree, definitely a high stakes chess match
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:04 pm to triggeredmillennial
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Is it 1986 again?
Every gen x’r and older knows this bruh.
My thoughts exactly. I knew all of this at 10 years old.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:06 pm to jdd48
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Modern nuclear weapons can have up to like 9 warheads, some of which may be dummy heads.
Peacekeepers could carry up to 11 and Trident IIs up to 12. The US no longer MIRVs the Minuteman III. The Russian Satan II has up to 15. They've kept more MIRVs in their arsenal than we have since New START (thanks Obama).
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:14 pm to dallaslsufan
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Went down the rabbit hole on videos last night...Had no idea...Russia can send over a nuclear ICBM and hit DC in less than 24 minutes...There are some that can do it in less than 10 minutes that they are working on. We have ZERO way of defending ourselves against them. Nothing to shoot these out the sky effectively. Good Lord!
Where were you during the Cold War? Did you not already know all of this?
If Russia launched a full on nuclear attack on the United States, there is no way we can shoot them all down. The question is whether they are still even capable of firing in the first place.
China and Russia both have hundreds of nuclear missiles aimed at us. The only thing that keeps them from launching them is the hundred we have aiming back at them.
The question is not if we will ever have a nuclear exchange, but when.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:19 pm to dallaslsufan
We all going be surprise when the truth revealed that we(the USA) or the only ones with the ability to strike with nuclear weapons… “the proof in the pudding” as they say.., has anyone else ever used one???
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:24 pm to Shepherd88
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There’s a submarine in the Pacific Ocean whose task is to shoot down an ICBM from Russia. It’s position it’s never known and it’s constantly moving.
First of all I seriously doubt that’s true and second, one submarine wouldn’t be able to stop enough to make a difference. And why is this super secret submarine in the Pacific? ICBMs from Russia will be coming over the North Pole.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:27 pm to jmorr34
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jmorr34
Classic, but I'm le tired...
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:37 pm to wickowick
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Welcome to the 1980's...
lol
I swear I can hear the song, Land of Confusion playing in the distance ….. OH OHWhoa
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:51 pm to dallaslsufan
That’s if they work properly. Russia doesn’t have the best tech
Posted on 4/28/25 at 12:59 pm to dallaslsufan
You compressed the entire Cold War experience into a couple hours on YouTube.
This post was edited on 4/28/25 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:03 pm to dallaslsufan
Steely Dan "King of the World"
Hello one and all
Was it you I used to know
Can't you hear me call
On this old ham radio
All I got to say
I'm alive and feeling fine
If you come my way
You can share my poison wine
No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know
I don't want your bread
I don't need your helping hand
I can't be no savage
I can't be no highwayman
Show me where you are
You and I will spend this day
Driving in my car
Through the ruins of Santa Fe
CHORUS
I'm reading last year's papers
Although I don't know why
Assassins cons and rapers
Might as well die
If you come around
No more pain and no regrets
Watch the sun go brown
Smoking cobalt cigarettes
There's no need to hide
Taking things the easy way
If I stay inside
I might live til Saturday
Hello one and all
Was it you I used to know
Can't you hear me call
On this old ham radio
All I got to say
I'm alive and feeling fine
If you come my way
You can share my poison wine
No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know
I don't want your bread
I don't need your helping hand
I can't be no savage
I can't be no highwayman
Show me where you are
You and I will spend this day
Driving in my car
Through the ruins of Santa Fe
CHORUS
I'm reading last year's papers
Although I don't know why
Assassins cons and rapers
Might as well die
If you come around
No more pain and no regrets
Watch the sun go brown
Smoking cobalt cigarettes
There's no need to hide
Taking things the easy way
If I stay inside
I might live til Saturday
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:11 pm to Havoc
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MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction.
Nice story. Tell it to Readers Digest.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:12 pm to The Seaward
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Her (Annie Jacobsen) book from last year, Nuclear War: A Scenario, was a fascinating and terrifying read.
It's good even if it does require a few perhaps less likely (but not THAT far fetched) scenarios to get to the end result.
Going to be a movie by Dennis Villeneuve
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:14 pm to dallaslsufan
It's called "nuclear deterrence" for a reason. When our SSBNs go out to sea, it's called a strategic deterrent patrol. The main thing keeping other countries from getting trigger happy is knowing that we would destroy them in a counterstrike.
This post was edited on 4/28/25 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:20 pm to Ace Midnight
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Trident IIs up to 12
x 24 missile tubes on Ohio class subs = a whole lotta destruction. We usually have at least 2 SSBNs from each coast on patrol at any time. Then, add in the rest of the nuclear triad... bombers and silos. That's why nobody has been dumb enough to strike first.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:21 pm to dallaslsufan
It’s been that way since ICBMs existed.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 1:34 pm to terd ferguson
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x 24 missile tubes on Ohio class subs =
So, potentially a strike with 288 individual warheads from a single boomer. In reality, the mix of dummy to live has been something like 7:3 (or 30% live). The hundreds of dummies are to overwhelm any ABM system to get the dozens of live warheads through.
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