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Russia’s Giant Nuclear Torpedo Is Apparently Real
War is Boring ^ | January 18, 2018 | Dave Majumdar

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 ...


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100 MT is a massive warhead. The biggest nuke ever exploded was the 50 MT Tsar Bomba.
1 posted on 01/19/2018 8:21:57 AM PST by C19fan
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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.


2 posted on 01/19/2018 8:23:56 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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That’s a good one.


3 posted on 01/19/2018 8:25:56 AM PST by C19fan
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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).


4 posted on 01/19/2018 8:27:52 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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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.


5 posted on 01/19/2018 8:27:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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So basically we have another kind of orbiting nuclear satellite weapon.

This type will be orbiting underwater.


6 posted on 01/19/2018 8:29:57 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Drop it in the Mariana’s Trench and crack the planet anyone?


7 posted on 01/19/2018 8:30:06 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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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.


8 posted on 01/19/2018 8:32:27 AM PST by alloysteel (Sometimes I have to tell myself, it just isn't worth the jail time.)
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Maybe we should seek good relations with them instead of letting NeoCons push us to war.


9 posted on 01/19/2018 8:33:42 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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“Mine’s bigger.”

“What?”

“My cucumber. Mine’s bigger.”


10 posted on 01/19/2018 8:35:29 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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oH NOES! NOT THE BIG, GIANT, TORPEDO!


11 posted on 01/19/2018 8:39:47 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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I'm guessing we know the location of this menace at all times and it's destruction is always just moments away!!!
12 posted on 01/19/2018 8:44:41 AM PST by ontap
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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.

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.

13 posted on 01/19/2018 8:46:13 AM PST by Oatka
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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.


14 posted on 01/19/2018 9:00:05 AM PST by Zathras
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Light one off in the English Channel in the proper place (maybe more than one) and kill much of European shipping for a decade.

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.

15 posted on 01/19/2018 9:06:23 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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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.


16 posted on 01/19/2018 9:10:02 AM PST by odawg
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“One peeng only, Visheelius.”


17 posted on 01/19/2018 9:14:06 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
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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?


18 posted on 01/19/2018 9:15:36 AM PST by Phinneous (Moshiach Now!)
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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.


19 posted on 01/19/2018 9:36:29 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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But, but the US Military is the best because of strength in diversity and free flowing gender identification!


20 posted on 01/19/2018 9:40:00 AM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'm younger than that now.)
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