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Why is the gulf war so underappreciated in media?
Joshua Gutierrez
Carter Taylor
OK calm down, germany stronk
Blake Russell
It's a retarded pic.
France has 1 CVN the CdG and 3 Mistral-class LHD.
The Jeanne was a cold war ship type that doesn't exist anymore and were the spiritual ancestors of the LHD called "Helicopter Cruisers".
It was still in service because it was a school ship, not a combat ship.
Logan Robinson
US Boomers receive EAM from COMSUBLANT/COMSUBPAC via VLF that's a retrans of priority traffic from STRATCOM concerning the defense posture and patrol routes of strategic fleet assets. Subs authenticate and verify EAM by use of mission specific alpha-numeric OTP (One-Time-Pads) kept under lock and key in the Weapons Section. Priority traffic is normally broadcast over all three systems, but subs primarily utilize VLF because VLF better penetrates seawater (ELF penetrates the best be requires enormous broadcast antennas which are a bear to maintain) and use of SSIXS or UHFSCS requires a sub to surface to receive/transmit, making it both a sonar and surface radar contact.
Those cryptic messages broadcast over HFGCS at 11175KHz are the same thing, but for silos and alert aircraft using HF, rather than VLF. Normally priority traffic is broadcast via UHF, but HF nets serve as a redundancy in the event UHF SATCOM has been damaged or disrupted, as HF requires more effort to jam. At one time silos and alert aircraft also received priority traffic via LF nets (because LF can transmit even during a RF darkout period caused by EMP, because LF waves travel along the surface of the Earth and is capable of some Earth) through the URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network, but with the end of the Cold War it was inevitably it was shitcanned.
Blake Carter
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US Boomer fleet consists of 432 Trident-I C4 or Trident-II D5 SLBM, each carrying 8 or 12 MIRV respectively, making the possible target group selection as little as 3,456 target points and up to 5,184 target points.
ABM systems have a general failure rate of 25%, even the much vaunted A-135 and future A-235. Let's also not get ahead of ourselves, the A-135 and A-235 are impressive, but borrow heavily in concpet and design layout from the US Sentinel and Safegaurd Programs. Heck, the Don-2N radar blockhouse is direct rip-off of the PARCS blockhouse at the Mickelsen Safeguard Site in North Dakota.
Levi Reyes
The Don-2 is the evolution of the Dog House/Cat House radars the first one the soviet had was in 1959… long before even MAR was on a drawing board.
The soviet had an actually operational ABM (A-35) by the time the 1972 treaty was signed they had to have the radars to go with it…
Sebastian Evans
No it doesn't. There are 16 active boomers and they have what, 24 launchers? Even fully loaded that's only 384 missiles, plus it's actually 1-12 MIRV average of 6 times 384 looking at maybe 2500 warheads. Each is the Mk 400 at best, which is an 80s warhead with no real maneuvering or ECM ability, they can do a spread like a shotgun when reentering at best.
Most of the subs aren't like focused on one city either, even when attacking 1 country like Russia they would be split into multiple approach areas. North atlantic, south atlantic, indian ocean, south china sea, baltic, mediterranean, persian gulf, south pacific, north pacific, arctic….. In terms of concentration per area it's 1 sub. It's just not enough concentration to break through something like A135 or even a single battalion of S-400 of which Russians have dozens of in key areas. Yeah maybe if they concentrate they might take out a city or two…. but they're just not worried about the boomers.
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MIRV just doesn't work like that, each missile is one target point, it can just spread out to cover more area to increase damage potential. It's not like a single missile can hit Moscow and St Petersburg at the same time. Not to mention it would actually be counter productive to distribute your attack. Think you're going to hurt Russia by bashing a few thousand small towns? Their economy might actually improve if that happened.
Nolan Murphy
Don-2 radar system may certainly well be a development from Dunya-3 system, but the use of the truncated pyramid design is a direct rip-off of the Micklesen Site design. The Don-2 wasn't even initially accepted when proposed, because of it's inability to differentiate between penetration aids and missiles, not until 1978 when "changes" had been made was it accepted.
ZMAR was in development in 1960, it was just folded into MAR-I when Nike-Zeus was cancelled. Let's not act as if the Soviets had some amazing developmental lead.
Nike-X was a perfectly capable ABM system, McNamera simply was a moron that insisted on keeping all eggs in a single basket.
We're both wrong, I had a nagging feeling my numbers might be out-of-date. So, I checked the current fleet data specs, only fourteen Ohio's are SSBN, the other four are SSGN.
No, the Trident-I C4 uses the Mk.4 RV with W76 warheads, not Mk.400. As of 2005, all Trident-I C4's are no longer in active service;
navy.mil
All current Ohio's carry the Trident-II D5, which carries the W76/Mk.4 or W88/Mk.5, both MIRV'ed with a maximum of eight warheads as lined out in SORT, but limiting each party to only 1,152 warheads in active service.
They not focused on anything, their target list depends on the SIOP. Majorly, even in a counter-value scenario the majority of target points will be military and industrial to prevent retaliatory action. City centers receive damage because they host the large majority of industrial areas.
I can appreciate the A-135 and S-400 as much as the next guy, but you're attributing both far more capability than they have, they're both terminal phased engagement systems. They're impressive, but be realistic. The navy claims the SM-3 ER can handle SLBM…and I'm dubious about that claim. The Russian's are very worried about the Boomers, because if not they'd be more than capable of wiping the US off the map with little concern of retaliation, because the Boomers are the only realistic wild card in the US nuclear arsenal. LGM-30's can be tracked right from their silos and B-83's and B-61's are limited by their delivery platforms range and penetration abilities.
Yes they do. The design of a MIRV isn't to target multiple targets over a extremely vast geographic area, it's to target multiple targets over a small geographic area. A sole warhead striking a facility on the West side of Moscow would have little affect to targets on Moscow's East side, the effects of nukes have vastly diminishing effect over large areas. This is why saturation is utilized to dig up hardened sites, but multiple unhardened sites over an area are more than capable of being hit and destroyed by MIRV from the same RV.
The entire point of the development of the MIRV was to give the ability to strike multiple targets in the same area, rather than unreliably hinge everything on the sheer blast over-pressure from a large yield warhead.
You're making the mistake of thinking cities are targets for civil collateral, they're only targeted for their military or industrial assets. The US wouldn't waste warheads on small Russian towns of no strategic or tactical value.
Mason Morgan
You neglected to mention the hair dye.
Tyler Wood
Or that she's cross dressing. I'll never understand the streloks that muh dik over sluts wearing camo and tacticool shit.