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To: Just4Him

100 ton?


15 posted on 12/20/2011 3:33:17 PM PST by battlecry
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To: battlecry

The SS-18 Satan has a throw weight of more like 10 tons. A ten ton single warhead works out to around 25-30 megatons, when you consider the re-entry vehicle and all that. The largest nuclear explosion remains the Tsar Bomba from the early 60’s at 50 megatons. It could have been 100 megatons if it had a U-238 jacket for fast fission.
More likely, if there are going to be new SS-18’s, they will be the multiple warhead variety, which the latest version is capable of carrying quite a few.


19 posted on 12/20/2011 3:47:45 PM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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