Military ICBM/nuke question??
My Russian wife has been horribly upset by this Russian invasion. She has told me how poorly Russian soldiers are trained, how lazy the average Russian has became. How no one takes care of anything or does maintenance.
I have read that ICBMs and the nuke warheads need a great deal of maintaining. Is it possible Putin's nuke fleet wont fly?? Wouldn't that be a great outcome!
Is this even a remote possibility??
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News... if you can believe any media said they had 1400 operational nukes.
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At the breakup of the USSR, the US sent crews there to help them get an inventory of what they had. They did not have current records on all their nuke ordnance. In a few cases there were mobile ICBM launchers that had been abandoned- crew had not been paid in months- they had parked the launchers, taken their AK-74s, and gone hunting for food.
The missiles DO require maintenance- and so do the warheads. One component of a modern large nuke is tritium gas- which has a half-life of about 12 years. Has to be replaced or you get a low order nuke detonation. Electronics have to be serviced. Batteries need service. The conventional HE that starts the nuke detonation have to be serviced. The solid fuel rocket motors have to be serviced.
Would SOME of them fly? Probably. But not all of them. In the words of Dirty Harry- "You have to ask yourself- do you feel lucky/'
If they fly, would there be response? Very probably- and IMHO, the response has been much better kept.
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In my opinion, it would only take one ICBM to insure mutually assured destruction.
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Problem is, President Peanut head would dither and try to sidestep. "Did they really meeeeean to press the launch code? Did they intend to... Was it just miscommunicatio...oh look! Ice cream!"
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They have subs,we have subs.I work with some former senior enlisted and officers.They took their jobs on subs very seriously as they do with their civilian jobs.The ones I work with are very smart and good guys.I assumed the Russian submariners were the same and if they are not,we need to be concerned.
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The Russians have the largest nuclear stockpile of any nation.
They don’t need all of them to work in order to change the history of the world. Only one.
Right now, the world needs 2 things & unfortunately they can only come from within Russia.
1) an organized amd successful assassination of Putin
2) A successor to take power and reverse the current course of the Russian military who will also pay full and just concessions to the Nation of Ukraine.
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Warbirds
I suggest we add one more thing for us to vote out the current clows in Washington it would be a great help to us and the world.. well Ok not so much for China
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Warbirds, I completely agree with your two points. It is quite possible we only need your number one accomplished.
Ditch-Runner I agree with you also but where are we going to find honest, competant men to elect?? It seems the corrupting effects of the political world is almost impossible for most to reject. 😔
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The chance of a better leader to take Putin's place would probably be pretty slim. They don't claw their way to the top by being good guys.
Mikhail Gorbachev was one in a billion that tried to change the old ways but he eventually became an emperor without an empire as the Soviet states started demanding independence and then the old Soviet hardliners kidnapped him and evicted him from the Kremlin. I'm surprised they didn't kill him.
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Mutual Assured Destruction…. MAD
It’s a MAD, MAD WORLD!
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