To: F-117A
The missile can be equipped with conventional HE, chemical or nuclear warheads with a weight of 482 kg. Your'e right ... they could be armed with just HE, but why bother?
You have to wonder what the value of using a conventional warhead on a missile like that would be. Chemical ? That's a nuke by old US standards.
90 posted on
08/11/2008 9:45:56 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
To: Centurion2000
You have to wonder what the value of using a conventional warhead on a missile like that would be. It has been reported that the SS-21 has four types of conventional warhead; unitary HE fragmentation, anti-runway, anti-armour and anti-personnel submunitions, with 50 anti-armour or anti-personnel munitions carried in each warhead. Following the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty photographs of the SS-23, it would seem quite possible that the SS-21 also has an earth penetration HE...
92 posted on
08/11/2008 9:53:27 PM PDT by
F-117A
(Mr. Bush, Condi, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
To: Centurion2000
SS-21’s becoming obsolete, so use them up.
96 posted on
08/11/2008 10:00:09 PM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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