Posted on 04/30/2017 4:14:33 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The Michigan is an SSGN not an SSBN.
Hit it with what?
The Michigan is currently equipped with a dry deck shelter...
Kind of tactically stupid to put a boomer in a port where the NK special forces may have access. What are we looking to do? Recreate the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor?
Plus we are an important cash cow for them
That’s probably the hoped for outcome. Keep up the pressure from all sides until 1 or a few of his generals make the rational calculation that: 1. They will lose, and 2. Eventually their paranoid leader will eventually get around to executing them.
I’m skeptical about the chances of success. It didn’t work with Saddam, and there were a lot of minorities in Iraq who would have killed that SOB if they could. Korea doesn’t have those kinds of ethnic divisions.
A point I am sure Trump made during Xi's visit.
The USS Michigan is one of four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, originally designed to launch nuclear missiles, that were converted between 2003 and 2007 to be able to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The USS Florida (SSGN 728) was converted in August 2003, the USS Michigan (SSGN 727) in October 2004, the USS Ohio (SSGN 726) in December 2005, and the USS Georgia (SSGN 729) in December 2007.
According to the U.S. Navy, “combined, the four SSGNs represent more than half of the Submarine Force’s vertical launch payload capacity with each SSGN capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles”. Additionally, the converted submarines can carry and deploy as many as 66 special operations personnel.
The four converted submarines can carry up to 616 tomahawk missiles, or over ten times the number launched on Syria earlier this month. Adding up to as 265 special operators, like Navy SEALs, and these sea going vessels are, according to the Navy, “land attack and SOF [Special Operation Forces] platforms.”
I have doubts that any of his regime are rational. They’re all true believers in the “Dear Leader” dynasty. I think that they revere the family as gods, and no thoughts stray out of that box. The generals were born and grew up under total indoctrination.
The data on that link confirms what info I’ve come across in the past. But its conclusion of wiping out 24 cities is way low. Just one of those 192 warheads would take out LA.
If you use Hiroshima as a metric; the math for the maximum 475KT warhead times 192 equals 91,200KT.
Hiroshima killed 100,000 with 15KT.
That works out to 608 Million dead with a full salvo. Almost twice the total population of the USA. Thats a lot more than 24 cities!
BTW...the army did a study a while back on how many megatons it would take to destroy the USA as a functioning country....basically wipe out its ability to do anything at home. They came back with 10 megatons. That works out to about 33 strategically placed detonations (ports, DC, major cities, military bases) at 300KT yield each. One 300KT nuke works out to 2million people dead using the same Hiroshima metric.
Here’s the mind blower....the study went on to estimate that there are 5000 Megatons of total nuclear destructive power between all of the nuclear capable countries (USA, Russia, China, Korea, Israel, UK, India, Pakistan etc...)
Using the same metric works out to, IIRC, 34 Billion dead. That’s 7 times the population of the whole world. 7 times....
Man-o-man....us humans....we’re geniuses aye?
We’ve got 14 Ohio subs. If any one of them go to launch depth and let go. Well...Einstein said “I don’t know what kind of weapons will be used in WW3. But in WW4 they will use sticks and stones”. That sounds about right.
LOL....
JOSHUA - Would you like to play a game?
DAVID - Let’s play global thermonuclear war.
JOSHUA - Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess?
DAVID - Later. Lets play global thermonuclear war.
JOSHUA - As you wish....
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