But because the bomb does not care who planted it, it will kill everyone there just the same.
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But because the bomb does not care who planted it, it will kill everyone there just the same.
Maybe NATO should make the Russian Boomer Subs have unfortunate accidents in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. I am pretty sure by now we have the tech to tell exactly where 1980s era Ballistic Missile subs are.
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No... If we start going after their retaliation capacity, and they lose the threat of a second strike, how do you think they'd interpret that, and what do you think they'd do?
If we actually can (Probably can for most, but I doubt all? How many do they put to sea at once?) then it would make a lot more sense to get boats in position on them and let them know we're there. Even that might be pushing the threat too much, but it's less risky than forcing a "Use it or lose it" strike.
So that they could have something utterly horrible to blame on the Russians.
As if they already don't?
Apologize for previous posts on Russian Mobilization. Apparently they all were highly inaccurate. Putin himself went to inspect the freshly mobilized troops and it appears was extremely satisfied with the presentation. High morale. Well equipped. Very professional.
New Income Opportunity! Russian Officers Can Now Sell Vacation Days to Their Loyal Troops! This sort of rationing isn't exploitative but actually helps ensure that only the troops who really need a rest get them.
Escape From Tarkov...
Ten days from mobilization to death for Artyom Nebayev, a veteran who served in the Chechen Wars as a paratrooper reconaissance officer. Rest in Peace.
Reportedly one of the Tajiks involved in the shooting of other Russian forces was only in Russia for seven months and technically shouldn't of been able to be conscripted due to the whole... not being a Russian citizen thing.
New Income Opportunity! Russian Officers Can Now Sell Vacation Days to Their Loyal Troops! This sort of rationing isn't exploitative but actually helps ensure that only the troops who really need a rest get them.
Escape From Tarkov...
Ten days from mobilization to death for Artyom Nebayev, a veteran who served in the Chechen Wars as a paratrooper reconaissance officer. Rest in Peace.
Reportedly one of the Tajiks involved in the shooting of other Russian forces was only in Russia for seven months and technically shouldn't of been able to be conscripted due to the whole... not being a Russian citizen thing.
Going after the Russian boomers would mean needing to make sure they take out the Belgorod first and foremost; SLBMs are no fun to deal with, but our ABM shit is pretty good and well funded now, so Status-6 nuke drones are a lot bigger threat because they are far harder to intercept, particularly the super-cavitation bubble variant.
Taking out just the Belgorod in retaliation for a tac-nuke seems like it's proportional, but not going to completely gut the Russian second strike capabilities.
You say that now but if one or two of those Boomers launch a handful of missiles. People will be demanding to know why no one took them out when we had the chance.
People demanding to know things will be low down on the list of things to worry about.
In such a situation, the odds of any boomer launching a 'handful' of missiles as opposed to 'all their missiles' is remote... and in such a case we're basically back to 'that scene from Wargames.'
I said handful because I serious doubt the bulk of Russia's ballistic missiles are still reliable. Too many malfunctioning Russian missiles as of late.
Unless a missile lands and hits some city but does not full detonate the warheads. Just becomes a big dirty bomb.
Outside of evidence to the contrary, Russia's ballistic missiles were all manufactured before any sanctions and/or chip shortages...
And assuming a failure rate enough the any / all nukes fired will be shot down is just begging for 'that scene from Wargames.'
We are at the point where giving Russia the benefit of the doubt in fully functional weapons has long passed. You can't have 95% of you conbat equipment proven to be in shoddy condition and still think. But this one part here is fully maintained. It is not logical. You don't have mismanagement and incompetence that widespread and not have it affect everything.
There MAY be one site where the Commander was completely loyal and shot everyone trying to sell parts and skim. That will be the ONLY site where things are fully operational...as far as their equipment would have been anyway.
One site is still maybe a dozen missiles at max.
Belgorod says high.
Worry about the iffy missile sites less than the Tsar Bomba torps/radioactive tsunami weapons that thing has.
That is an untested weapon that is pretty dubious to me. The Russians hype many things that turn out to be big nothingburgers.
This is one of the Biggest Examples of what I am talking about. The so called Soviet Superjet the Mig 31.
Status-6's are an underwater drone with a couple Tsar Bomba's on it, and they have tested it (not the warhead, but the drone part) a bit.
It's a just a nuclear powered, nuclear armed mega-torpedo/drone that can go deeper than most combat subs or their torps, which in fact is fairly simple compared to some of the higher end ICBM/MIRV combo's out there.
All we have is Russia saying we say it works. Yeah not buying anything they say.