Posted by oldtanker on August 29, 2014 at 14:50:11 from (64.118.3.75):
In Reply to: Missile Silos posted by 320B on August 29, 2014 at 13:34:28:
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I think it's 3 warheads. Some of our targets were hard targets designed to withstand a nuke. For those they had a delayed fuse to make em go off underground. That at least was to my understanding. In the mid 80's they really started telling us line soldiers a lot about WMDs. Things were getting dicey with the former Soviet Union. For a while we had a lot of training on what to expect, who in the Soviet military had the authority to use tactical nukes and what to expect with chemical weapons. They also told us about ours I think to give us confidence in our ability to win. Could never figure that out. You have a nuke exchange between us and Russia or us and China the countries without nukes who are not targeted are going to be the clear winners. That's why the Soviets were so afraid of the neutron bomb. Designed to detonate really high. The radiation would kill every living creature in an area about 25 miles across. The radiation deteriorated rapidly and the area would be safe for humans in 5 years. Because of the height of the blast little they claimed that little if any damage would occur to buildings and such on the ground. That was when the Soviets got real serious about the SALT negotiations. Don't know how close we were to having it or if it was just propaganda, or if we honored our agreement not to build them. That was a time when we were openly talking about the "start wars" missile defense system and other things. Regan made speech's about all of it (doesn't make sense, all that stuff should have been highly classified). Don't know if any was real or if was something to push the Russians over the brink trying to keep up. What ever the true story is it did make the Russians spend money they didn't have and it wasn't long before things started to cool down with the Iron Curtain finally coming down. But don't thump your chest over that. The Russians pulled far more scams on us through the years. Just how much did we spend looking for "suitcase nukes" when all that was said was they scouted for locations to plant them?
As far as nukes, the cruise missile can carry a nuke payload. A nuke arty round is only about 110 pounds IIRC and we had 75 pound back pack devices for Spec Ops. Cruise missile has a much larger payload than that. The cruise missile scared the Russians bad too. Shortly after they were deployed a West German teen took off in a light plane and went nap of earth (NAP), undetected through East German airspace and landed in Red Square. Russia at that time had no defense against a cruise missile flying NAP maybe carrying a nuke warhead. Was an interesting time to be active duty.
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