Is the 455 KT real or a typo ????
The W88 is approximately 475 kt (some reports).
At one time, there were 24 MIRV platforms carrying a number of W88’s on each Ohio-class (excluding the SSGN modifcations to the early boats).
It was said that a single Ohio could destroy 400 cities. I assumed they meant approximately that many.
I always took that as some calculation of the number of reentry vehicles per MIRV platform (divide by 24).
I’m not certain what a more official count would be, though.
W88 is the big one of the duo on the D5 trident..... I build the W88’s & W76’s . The “Dash 2” mod is just the smaller yield of the W76 variants being phased in . Not a big issue as to lower yields due the ability today to “thread the needle” target wise ......... Less collateral damage but the same damage to the actual target sought . Think of the 9mt, W53 on Titans and the B53, 9mt in the B-52’s ........ Close like horseshoes and hand grenades was “good nuff” 13 miles good nuff .....
We can put W88’s / W76’s in Putin’s bowl of borsch from thousands of miles away ..... Dotting the eye of the MAD Doctrine.
Yeah, the big one is the one that makes rubble bounce.