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The US has the nerve to have missile defenses that actually defend it?
Get this: The General commanding Russia Strategic Rocket Forces, Lieutenant General Sergei Karakayev, said in December that the new Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) are needed -- because the existing ones are vulnerable to US missile defenses.
Originally posted by nightbringr
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Not sure if this defense is all that, is it? Going to be able to stop SLBM? Lets say the Russians launched their entire arsenal at the continental USA? What percentage would make it through?
Originally posted by victor7
Russians have been sleeping the whole of 1990s and now they find that their nuclear deterrent is nearly cancelled out. No wonder Obama wants to cut US nukes by 80% as he know missiles from outside won't be able to penetrate.
I think US knew it all along as it broke off the missile defense treaty sometimes in early line nearly 10 years or so.
New trend in offensive weapons is to do with Rail Guns, EMP bombs, Space based Rods from God. These do not use nukes but can inflict much more damage.
Originally posted by ScarletWitch
reply to post by Trillium
I am fairly certain, the first intercepts would be roughly half way between Russia and the US. Can you imagine the nervousness and worry, watching a computer screen, as blips are racing toward each other, knowing that life or certain death, depends on those blips.
I have seen some of the brightest minds in medicine, buckle under a stress test. Stress and nerves can wreak havoc on an otherwise unshakable mind.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by nightbringr
One nuke would ruin your whole day.
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by nightbringr
One nuke would ruin your whole day.
Absolutely, that was my point.
What does it matter if it stops 50% of incoming nukes, society is already decimated. I would wager to say that one EMP over North America would be catastrophic beyond imagining.
Not sure i understand what it is to "win" a nuclear war on that scale.
Originally posted by victor7
True and not true, but country like US will not be destroyed even if all the Russian nukes are able to hit their targets. The whole earth will not be destroyed even if all the nukes from everyone goes and does its job. It will take 1000x of current nukes to destroy the whole earth. I was surprised too but this is the new reality. EMPs can do a much large damage to a city than a nuke. Soon nukes might be going obsolete.