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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Nuclear weapons are the most calculated systems in the world. The strike capacity of those weapons is planned by men, who are got Nobel prizes for their scientific honors. And the person who operates those systems is selected the most intelligent process what military systems can ever create. The nuclear weapon is extremely expensive, and the most secure military equipment what mankind ever created. And they are the very good tool to make other nations to listen the owner of those weapons own ideas. If the nation has nuclear weapons, it's very easy to choose diplomatic solutions, if that nation makes something, what is normally prohibited in an international field. This is the reason, why superpowers have this kind of armament.
The new weapons of Russia are really fascinating. They would be very devastating, and some persons have asked, why the western world didn’t do this kind of weapons. The problem of Russian weapon systems is that they are so monstrous. And somebody asked once the good question, can Russian or the Soviet government do anything small. The world’s most devastating nuclear device 50 mt. the weapon can also installed to head of “Sarmat” missile, and there might be also airplanes, where that weapon is internally installed.
Those superweapons have one little problem. Their destruction range is so huge, that they can only use against Washington. If those weapons are used on the battlefield, all troops would be erased in seconds. Another way to use those weapons effectively is just detonated them under the Atlantic or Pacific surface. The underwater explosions would destroy any submarine on the ocean, but the own submarines must be warned about this kind of attack, that they could avoid the pressure wave.
When we are thinking the U.S NAVY’s situation in the South China Sea, we must say that the admirals of the fleet must know the weaknesses about those naval units. And somehow I must say that maybe those ships are decoys for some other actions. The nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia are basically same. There are two types of weapons, what supports together. The strategic weapons are long-range missiles, what might have many types of warheads. The mobile systems survivability bases, that they are hard to locate before shooting. Fixed systems are easy to locate and they are installed in hardened silos, and their survivability bases the bunker-type solutions. Those systems can be destroyed by seismic warheads, what is penetrating in the ground before the explosion.
Fixed systems are needed for the train the missile troops because this way the political trust of personnel can be diagnosed. And “no wanted” persons like drug users and unstable personnel can cut off the system. The use of those systems as training is safer because the silo-based missiles are harder to steal than highly mobile systems. The ICBM needs two points to flight: the beginning point of flight and target point. And that’s why silo-based ICBM can launch the little bit faster than mobile systems but the time is only marginal. Satellite navigation makes the targeting the systems very fast, and the difference between those systems reaction times is the only couple of seconds.
There is one very big problem by choosing those warheads. Smaller warheads are lighter than big ones, and they can carry more in the head of the missile. Those warheads can be used against any target, what they would need to destroy. The smaller size means that they are harder to destroy than larger. But there is one problem with small warheads. They must hit precisely on target. The bigger warheads are not carried so many in same time, but they would destroy larger areas in same time. If somebody steals those warheads, the result would be devastating. There is always the possibility of terrorist action against those missiles because those weapons are so wanted thing in the mind of fanatics. And the problem with the selection of warheads is if the state has the only couple of large yield nuclear warheads, they can destroy easily if they would be located in space or by recon planes. But if those missiles were launched, the ability to destroy them is very low.
Mobile nuclear weapons are extremely hard to locate. But if the weapon is located it’s easy to destroy. All missile systems need fixed bases for security and service duties of those weapons. Also, ICBM’s are assembled in mobile platforms, and submarine-based ballistic missiles are “hard to find, easy to kill” weapons. Tactical nuclear weapons are supporting strategic weapons by destroying enemy troops or aircraft what attacks the missile site. And those weapons are used as “police armament” if the commanders of strategic nuclear weapons are rebellious. There is actually no direct line between tactical or strategic nuclear weapons, and long-range strategic systems can also use to support the situation on the battlefields around the world. One thing what we must notice is that the USA or other western nation would say any world against “Sarmat” missile. So we must say that no nation would uncover their best weapons.
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