The tactics of nuclear weapons

B-2 "Spirit"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

There are two possible tactics or routes when the nuclear weapons are developed. Another tactic is to create high-yield missiles, what would attack against targets, what are in the enemy area. If the state chooses this route, it would have very good strike capacity, but the problem with those missiles is, that they could not return to the ground. And when the strike has begun, the missiles would not call back. But this is the past. Today missiles can shoot to the low trajectory, and if the strike would be unnecessary, those rockets can be returned to earth.  Here I must say, that also slid fuel rockets can be used many times, and only thing, what need to do, is to change the fuel cassette inside the rocket stage.


The rocket can shoot to orbiter from silo or mobile station like submarines, and when it should return to Earth, the warhead could return like Apollo capsule in the military base, and then it can be loaded to another rocket. Or they can be the load to miniature space shuttle like X-37B, and then this system can return those warheads in any runway in the world. Those miniature shuttles can also use as the hypersonic cruise missiles, but they have also scientific purposes. Modern cruise missiles can also be released from aircraft and they can refuel in the air.

They might seem like X-47B, what is equipped with nuclear or bunker-busting conventional warhead. Those missiles could also return to their base, and land like airplanes to carriers or fixed bases. They can also shoot with rockets, and when the mission is over, other parts of the rockets, like used stages of can be landed in the sea by using parachutes and the NAVY can pick them up. If the fuel would be in the separate tube, those stages could reload immediately.  There is one thing, what makes nuclear missiles more addictive for the eastern block than the nuclear bomber or submarine. That is the missiles can be kept in surveillance of security forces all the time, and that grows the political trusting in those weapons.


The tactics with those Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is that they would be used to terminate enemy troops in long distance at the enemy territory. And this is why those missiles have high-yield nuclear warheads. The targets of those missiles are airfields and missile silos and command bunkers, and that's why those warheads are planned to destroy large area targets, and deep dug targets. That is the problem with fixed base systems, the location of those structures is well known, and that's why there is created mobile systems, what are easy to drive out of the nuclear base.


Some of those systems are meant to destroy rebellious nuclear bases in the situation, where nuclear troops are going to take control in the country. The mobile missile-systems what are mounted in trucks and warships are the reason to create nuclear bombers, what mission is to search and destroy those mobile systems. Those bombers mission is to penetrate deep inside enemy airspace and search those missiles. They are actually offensive weapons, what uses multipurpose nuclear and conventional weapons, what mission is to destroy nuclear missiles in the silos, and mobile systems like trucks and submarines. The problem with this kind of weapon systems is that they are heading to targets, what have defended with heavy anti-aircraft systems and fighter shield.


That's why those bombers need STEALTH-technology. The destroying missile-silos can be made with conventional laser- or GPS-guided bunker-busting weapon, but the target can also be destroyed by the similar nuclear bomb, what penetrates the ground and then seismic waves would terminate the base. The mobile missile systems are very vulnerable if they are located, and even normal anti-tank weapons and cluster bombs can destroy those missiles. But before that, the missiles must be located and the strike against them must begin.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B



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