[BenLurkin]

It probably won’t last for ten minutes after the balloon goes up.

[Hootowl99]

I agree with you re. 10 minutes from the balloon popping to a boomer submarine kabooming from a torpedo. But caveats…. The attack sub launching the torpedo would have to be close, very close, to tail the boomer and be in a position to take such a shot.

Boomers by design are exceptionally quiet thus hard to track. When in hide mode, they are likely barely making steerage way, 2 or 3 knots. They hide in the arctic ocean, probably under the ice at times. When under the ice, a boomer is very difficult to locate or track unless an attack sub collides with it.

Once or twice I've read some claims about this Poseidon torpedo. IIRC it is claimed to have a nuclear propulsion system capable of several thousand miles going slow and quiet. No idea if this is accurate. If so, hard to detect.

Several years ago, the US replaced the P-3 turboprop sub hunter with the jet P-8 I believe it is. Lots of good reasons to do this. However, the P-8 omitted the magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) that detects ripples in the earth's magnetic field caused by a submerged metallic structure. This omission leaves the P-8 without one sharp arrow in its bag of tricks.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Nor shall we. The lucky ones will be near the epicenter, perhaps with the time to pour a stiff drink, say a prayer, and enjoy the light show for a few milliseconds, before their bodies are vaporized.

Cheers!
Chin, chin!
Salut!

Whatever anyone says in their native tongue as a toast.