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Russia unveils image of its terrifying Satan 2 missile: Super-nuke could destroy an area the [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 25, 2016 | Libby Plummer and Chris Summers

Posted on 10/25/2016 6:24:55 AM PDT by C19fan

Russia has unveiled chilling pictures of its largest ever nuclear missile, capable of destroying an area the size of France.

The RS-28 Sarmat missile, dubbed Satan 2 by Nato, has a top speed of 4.3 miles (7km) per second and has been designed to outfox anti-missile shield systems.

The new Sarmat missile could deliver warheads of 40 megatons - 2,000 times as powerful as the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly planning to replace the country's older SS-18 Satan weapons with the new missiles.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: icbm; nuclear; nuclearwar; russia; weapons; ww3
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To: DCBryan1

“No, there are published papers from Sandia and Lawrence/Livermore that even if every single SS-18 Satan had the Mod 3 warhead (25MT) all launched and detonated at EMP altitude, it still wouldn’t cover all of CONUS or have long lasting effects. I forget the yield, but for ONE nuclear warhead to cause catastrophic EMP damage over all of CONUS would be in the gigaton range or high hundred megaton. Every nuclear weapon (less SADM/tactical nukes) the Russians have is approx. 1,056GT.”


Not so.

First, thermonuclear (fusion) weapons are far from the ideal way to create EMP - fission (plain old atomic bombs, not hydrogen bombs) are better, even though the yield is lower. Second, the fission bombs can be tuned to produce far more of the particular EMP effects that are desired. You don’t need that much in the way of explosive force (1,056GT) to cripple a continent-sized nation like the US.


61 posted on 10/25/2016 11:16:56 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: C19fan
If it used uranium instead of lead in various components the same bomb could have had a 100 MT yield.

Yep. And it would have toasted the plane, too. As it is, they had large brass ones even to drop the "little" version.

These aren't practical weapons at that point. As someone pointed out up-thread, you get a lot more bang for the buck (sorry) from 40 1-MT weapons than you do from one 40-MT weapon. Which is why the arms race sort of stopped there.

62 posted on 10/25/2016 11:20:10 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Ancesthntr

Thank you...no chance of my ever becoming president, hence my freedom to engage in absurd diatribes. I think my ignorance is showing.


63 posted on 10/25/2016 5:13:29 PM PDT by Banjoguy
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64 posted on 10/25/2016 6:44:02 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: MichaelCorleone

She just said the most idiotic message I have ever heard in a debate, and the most treasonous as well. To think some think that she should be POTUS while talking such things...


65 posted on 11/02/2016 3:44:58 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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