Posted on 04/16/2019 1:57:25 AM PDT by blueplum
Full Title: BIG BEAST Putin warns that Satan-2 missile has completed final tests and can now lay waste to an area the size of England and Wales
VLADIMIR Putin has revealed the feared Satan-2 nuclear missile has been successfully tested and is nearly ready to be deployed.
The Russian strongman announced his most powerful nuke said to be capable of evading any defence system has passed a rigorous round of tests.
The Sarmat known in the West as Satan-2 is seen as Russia's most powerful nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile.
Just one of them contains eight megatons of TNT-equivalent explosive power.
That is more than 400 times as strong as either bomb the US dropped on Japan in the final days of World War Two. This means they are capable of pulverising an area the size of England and Wales or Texas...
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
They did what Ocasio-Cortez's I.Q. tests did - came back negative.
“Either way, looks like a pretty miserable way to die over several months so Id just as soon not have a nuclear war please :)”
The dirty secret is that a nuclear war is in fact winnable at the current force levels. Air bursts (and EMP strikes) produce very little fallout. It’s the ground bursts that’ll get you, and the big concern is the counterforce strikes trying to take out the land based ICBMs - all ground bursts. But, our land based ICBM forces have been whittled down to fewer than 450 here in the US... Our total deliverable strategic warhead count is around 1,500.
The “winning” side would have to absorb massive losses and damage. It might be worth it though, with the whole world as your oyster afterwards... (BTW, an interesting and frightening scenario is China provoking a war between Russia and the US, then attacking the victor.)
I wonder how well the Russians actually know the patrol routes for our ballistic missile subs at this point.
At any rate, I’ll have to check out “Aftermath”, thanks for the tip!
(BTW for those interested in nuclear weapons and their effects, the NukeMap site is interesting: http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/)
‘That is more than 400 times as strong as either bomb the US dropped on Japan in the final days of World War Two. This means they are capable of pulverising an area the size of England and Wales or Texas’
Not to play down the punch of these bigger bombs, but no, nothing has been built that can pulverize all of Texas, not even close. The difference actually is more like Central Houston [5 mile radius] versus Houston metro [25 mile radius], but nothing close to all of Texas.
Of course,but in this case our garage was robbed,thank Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Skolkovo,that from our own military
“This means they are capable of pulverising an area the size of England and Wales or Texas...
8 megatons can’t even come close to doing that. Maybe these tabloid Brits should open a science book sometime.”
Well...the tabloid did get something wrong. The total for all warheads on one missile is more like 50 MT than 8 MT. It looks like one configuration would be something like nine 5 MT warheads. You’re still right, though, 50 MT won’t “pulverize” England. It wouldn’t be good though...
Here’s the “England” version of a representative strategic attack:
http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?t=e410ef55b31441926f93d5ba088e7993
That’s nine 5 MT warheads, all ground bursts with heavy fallout. The largest circles on the map represent the range at which third degree burns would be sustained in the open.
The ovals represent fallout contours. The inner orange contour is 100 rem per hour. At that rate, four hours will cause severe radiation sickness, eight will result in a high death rate (90%+) after hours to weeks.
I chose that targeting pattern largely to maximize fallout coverage, but still managed to directly hit several high population concentrations. I’ll post a followup with estimated casualties, it takes NukeMap a while to calculate those...
One Satan-2 missile can cause a whole lot of heartache.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat
Texas is a lot bigger than England and Wales, which can easily fit into Oregon with room to spare.
“Satan” is NATO’s name for the missile. NATO’s names for Soviet and Russian surface-to-surface missiles begin with “s.”
The Satan I was the SS-18, the largest Soviet ICBM, which was deployed beginning in 1974 and figured prominently in debates in the US over the proposed SALT II arms control treaty. The SS-18 was the follow-on to the SS-9, dubbed “Scarp” by NATO, a huge missile that sparked vigorous debates over arms control and missile defense in the US during Richard Nixon’s first term as president.
“We have stealthy nuclear submarines deployed 24/7/365. “
A single Trident boat can deliver 288 100kt warheads with a 50m CEP.
With no warning and a 10min or less flight time.
True nuclear counter force in a sub.
Imagine what 4 of them could do.
It ain’t the size of the missile but the megatons in the warhead.
Tsar Bomba. Atmospheric reflection blew out windows 400 miles away.
“No one wants a nuclear war. Its just that they all want nuclear weapons so they can have a means of negotiation.”
So Right! Nuke or Biological will only destroy land that could be used by the winner of any war. Chemical? Well that’s another game entirely. And the “Soviets” are extremely good at that game. The Ruskies first came up with the tactic of first attacking with blood agents which would disable gas masks due to violent throwing up, then followed up with the nastiest of nerve agents which creates the highest death yield and leaves the land and factories safe for takeover.
No... our biggest problem is anyone messing with nukes that could put them in the wrong hands. The Islam mind really doesn’t think things through to the conclusion. That IS our largest threat. God Help Us!
amazon prime.
very realistic very depressing very well done, I thought.
MUCH better than the day after, that piece of sh.t from the 80s.
the war starts in pakistan after radicals take over govt.
spins out of control from there
AWESOME SITE!!
Staten Island survives many attacks on manhattan.
but not Titan II class.
Agreed.
How hard is it to us nukes if one takes over a govt?
i assume many protocols are in place.
But my assumptions suck lately.
And if they are mounted on jets, is ANY code needed?
I believe they are mounted on trucks in Pakistan and India.
Any code needed there?
Too late the occupiers already destroyed that part of Britain
Thanks for the info. Quite informative.
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