[Kevmo]

Sinking all our Aircraft Carriers with thermal-targetted ICBMs is more than a strongly worded letter.

It would save face.

Arming thise missiles with conventional warheads keeps it conventional.

A 12 year old could target a 60kt thermal target in a cold ocean especially since the missile is travelling 100x faster.

[PIF]

Sinking all our Aircraft Carriers with thermal-targetted ICBMs ... A 12 year old could target a 60kt thermal target in a cold ocean especially since the missile is travelling 100x faster.

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Except the missiles would have to be redesigned to carry conventional explosives yielding 60kT - and the DF-41 does not have that sort of lift weight. A 11 ton MOAB only yields 11kT. And would be a huge waste of very expensive missiles and then what would they do when the US nukes them - now without any nuclear response capability?

Don’t be silly carriers are very hard to kill, and there is no such thing as a thermally targeted conventional war headed ICBM.

You must be raising mega genius 12 year olds over there to get the DF 41 to lift more than 5600lbs.

[BroJoeK]

Kevmo: "A 12 year old could target a 60kt thermal target in a cold ocean especially since the missile is travelling 100x faster."

But it's not, it's travelling slow enough (Mach 2) to be shot down by US Aegis missiles.

Sorry about that.