Posted on 01/19/2018 8:21:57 AM PST by C19fan
The United States’ new Nuclear Posture Review asserts that Russia’s Status-6 intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo is a real weapon and could be a genuine threat. Analysts are divided as to how genuine the threat is.
“It certainly is a threat U.S. forces will need to take into account,” Bryan Clark, a former U.S. Navy submarine officer and current senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
“It is large enough to carry a megaton-class nuclear weapon, although the 100 megaton weapon they advertise may be too heavy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at warisboring.com ...
We used to say that the Soviet anti-submarine doctrine was: “Hear a noise, blow up half the ocean!” I guess that it is true now.
That’s a good one.
Against a carrier group it would likely be detected before it got within a hundred miles. But against a U.S port city...no warning, just FLASH-BOOM! No incoming track to indicate point of origin (though by admitting they might have it they would be retaliation target #1).
It may only be able to carry a 1 megaton warhead. Whew. That sets my mind at ease. I was worried about that 100 megaton claim.
So basically we have another kind of orbiting nuclear satellite weapon.
This type will be orbiting underwater.
Drop it in the Mariana’s Trench and crack the planet anyone?
Not only is this perhaps one of the most fearsome and powerful weapons ever developed, it is much more likely to be delivered to points where its potential may be maximized largely undetected.
Just consider the tsunami wave formed by its detonation alone, and multiply that with the fierce column of heat and radioactivity that would be thrown up and scattered far through the earth’s atmosphere. Makes ICBM warheads seem like firecrackers in comparison.
Nuclear weapon air bursts are bad enough. A subsurface marine detonation of these dimensions would be infinitely worse.
Even in open ocean. In a port or relatively shallow coastal waters (like the English Channel), the disruption to human activity on this planet wold be impossible to describe beforehand, and perhaps not even afterward.
Maybe we should seek good relations with them instead of letting NeoCons push us to war.
“Mine’s bigger.”
“What?”
“My cucumber. Mine’s bigger.”
oH NOES! NOT THE BIG, GIANT, TORPEDO!
On a lighter note, the War Departments asked people for ideas on how to defeat the U-Boats. Will Rogers offered "Drain the Atlantic". When asked how he would do that, he said he just comes up with ideas and leaves it to others on how to implement them.
The Baker Test was 20kt and sank the Saratoga and radiated the other ships enough to kill anyone on them.
You don’t need a big warhead for a nuclear torpedo.
London, Rotterdam, Dunkirk, Amsterdam. Repeat for the German and Polish ports.
But still much easier to build a nuclear mine with some movement and anchor it off the coast a bit.
Still and all, it is not a big a threat as democrats. That weapon could possibly destroy parts of the country; the democrats would destroy the entire country.
“One peeng only, Visheelius.”
Didn’t they used to say there was a Ruskie admiral who said that when he wants to know where his subs are he looks where the US P-3s are?
Actually, the studies done in the 70s for the resupply of Europe said the most cost effective approach was to buy more targets. Attack submarines were the best defense, but it was still more cost effective to buy more transports. As you can imagine, this report was not widely distributed, and its author never made Admiral.
But, but the US Military is the best because of strength in diversity and free flowing gender identification!
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