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To: Lower Deck
ICBMs carry larger payloads. IIRC the old Soviet SS-25 could carry 3 25 megaton warheads.

That'll ruin pretty much anything.

16 posted on 10/10/2021 5:32:55 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
ICBMs carry larger payloads

With a much longer range.

Here's an interesting tidbit for you. It's been reported from a number of sources that Chinese ballistic missile subs don't deploy out of their home waters and they don't carry warheads on their missiles in peacetime. There's a lot of speculation as to why, whether it's because they don't have the kind of secure communications with their boats that the West does or whether they don't trust the reliability of the boats or they don't trust the reliability of the crews. But that's why the information on Chinese boomers is pretty scarce. They don't operate much so it's hard to keep track of them.

22 posted on 10/10/2021 5:42:59 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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