France got rid of its ground based nuclear missiles
They have always been on the cutting edge on winning wars./S/
It is time to augment the nuclear arsenal with an orbital tungsten rod arsenal.
Well let’s look at France and their capacity to make good rational decisions.
A Boomer (SSBN) carriers 240 Nuclear Warheads (24 Trident II missiles with 10 nukes per missile). An ICBM silo may contain 3 nuclear warheads (1 Minuteman III), many are empty or have dummy missiles. Each the silo and the submarine can be taken out; however, a submarine can be taken out with some ease (comparatively) effectively reducing/eliminating the nuclear force and response. Each silo requires a direct nuclear hit to destroy it.
So eliminating the ICBM force would be simply put stupid.
That's a sure sign that abandoning ground based nuclear missiles is the wrong path.
Liberal propaganda, read the article. Our entire slbm and strategic bomber program can be taken out with FIVE missiles. That we are down to only 400 single warhead ICBMs is terrible in itself.
With the development of what appear to be effective anti missile systems I do see an end to the icbm in the future to the icbm program but it is a long way off and they will be around for quite a while.
One of objectives of the DOD is to make the cost of attacking us latger than most countries GDP and we have done that very well.
What about FATBOI in the NK? Most likely hev will be ‘sploded by a group of generals if he gets serious. They nearly got him several years ago with a trainload of conventional explosives that leveled a large area. Really impressive but he had not shown up.
NK is really small and could be erased by a single carrier group. We have three publicly on station. Not a good situation for the fatboi in a leisure suit. He needs a new hobby.