Is Russia a nuclear state?
On paper
>>64598204ook?
>>64598206According to /k/nowers nukes are very maintenance sensitive.
>>64598204Russia is a mental state.
>>64598268You really think vranyo doesn't magically apply to nukes?https://www.technology.org/2025/12/02/putins-doomsday-rs-28-sarmat-crashes/
Any math-abusers here? How does Russia, a corrupt inefficient country with the GDP of below Italy manage to maintain a nuclear triad (nukes are expensive to maintain) of which's size is about that of America (officially). All this while their main revenue is buggered (resource extraction economy) while letting people of workable age die en masse? It doesn't work out.
>>64598294>doomsday missile>nuclear tsunami torpedoes>dead man's hand>identifying with orcs>trying to name their planes cringe shit like 'felon', 'endgame'>call their tanks 'breakthrough'What is the russoid obsession with sounding like cartoon villains while half their country doesn't have paved roads
>>64598321>What is the russoid obsession with sounding like cartoon villains while half their country doesn't have paved roadsMoscow and Petersburg has paved roads. The rest of Russia doesn't matter. Moscow and Petersburg is real Russia, the rest is extraction colonies to fuel the capital. The rest of Russia could suddenly die and nobody in the capital would cry besides for lost profits and slave force.
>>64598314you can't really square that circle without access to Kremlin's internal documents. I've heard somewhere that the American nuke maintenance budget is larger than the entire Russian defense budget put together, and Poor People Points can only account for so much in human labor costs. I think it's very likely that most of russian nukes aren't thermonuclear anymore due to tritium decay, just basic bitch fission bombs like the ones dropped on Japan. Still destructive, but not city-killer level. The issue is that estimating exactly what fraction of them works versus doesn't is probably not possible even for the CIA and nobody's willing to call russia's bluff
>>64598385Exactly! Even with cheaper labour it just doesn't fit together in a sensible way. Something smells and it ain't polonium.
>>64598385Nukes are also a great place for corner cutting with the total test-ban in place. Imagine a russian in charge of a piece of equipment that:1) Cannot be tested2) Likely won't be used3) If it's used, it doesn't really matter if it works (since he's dead anyways)4) Is really expensive to take care ofDo you think the russian will actually do his job right?
>>64598321>identifying with orcszegroids get really pissy if you compare them to orcs
>>64598435they will do it for free if they have to for the pride of Mother Russia
>>64598444One has to wonder if they realize it, if they are aware.
>>64598206Most of Russian ICBM old silos must be a fucking mess, but im pretty sure that their submarine nuclear missiles work just fine.
>>64598364>paved roadsIs this some kind of provocation?
>>64598321>>trying to name their planes cringe shit like 'felon',That's a NATO reporting name.
>>64598475....is that real?
>>64598461baduns don't like being told to their faces that they are, in fact, the scum of the earth.
>>64598204I read a book about Western businessmen in Moscow from 1991-2022, and it sounds like a nice city. Any anglophone books about the European Russia experience outside Moscow?
>>64598314My uneducated guess is that they have a core deterrent of ~500 missiles that are kept fully operational (enough for a countervalue strike against the United States and Western Europe's largest population centers with some to spare) and the rest are being cannibalized for spare parts or simply left to rot. For example, I can imagine all of their aircraft-delivered weapons have long since been written off since there's basically no hope of a Tu-95 or Tu-160 getting within striking distance of the United States without being shot down by the US Air Force, but they keep them extant on paper to maintain the myth of a nuclear triad.>>64598435Strategic Rocket Forces are considered one of the more prestigious assignments in the Russian military so the men are better educated, better trained, and better paid than the average conscript
>>64598466don't look up bulava launch failures
>>64598562check out english translations of pic related, still just as relevant as the day it was written
>>64598829>Strategic Rocket Forces are considered one of the more prestigious assignments in the Russian military so the men are better educated, better trained, and better paid than the average conscriptthat's not how it works. prestigious positions means they are filled with upper class sugar boys of the bigwigs, twice as nepotistic and way less responsible that the rest.
>>64598829Good post, another knower anon on a previous thread estimated ~300
>>64598951And they need many of those as deterrent against China
>>64598268Nitrate explosive lenses sweat, tritium gas boosters have a hard limit on lifespan, detonators and other components need replacement, which is why we have thousands of people spread across a bunch of different facilities.https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/locationsThey are working hard to eliminate these issues and greatly extend service life.>Moderated solid hydrides for variable yield instead of gas booster/solid hydride combo>Better kinetically insensitive explosives using nano-thermite foams and other nanoparticulate halogen composites>Diode laser initiated reactive foils instead of slappersYou can read about it. They let some of slip indirectly when they were first considering cancelling the Reliable Warhead Replacement Program because of cost overruns. You can read about this shit, it's just not presented as "it's for nuclear weapons".>t. not a knower, just a reader
>>64598204They almost certainly have working nukes and working missiles. The problem is, they don't know which ones. If they were to launch a limited nuclear strike, there's very high odds that it would fail.Which on the one hand undermines Putin's NOOK-OOK diplomacy, but on the other hand means that if a Russian nuclear strike ever does happen, it will have to be a full scale countervalue launch which in turn means all of Russia gets glassed and everyone loses.
>>64598829>>64598951What about their nuclear SLBM fleet?
>>64598289In at least 3 senses of that phrase.
>>64598444>let's prove we're not violent savages by acting like violent savages!It hit too close to home, it seems.
>>64598829Where is the Russian equivalent of Pantex? Arazmus 16? Apparently most of their weapons and control systems are very similar to ours. Wonder if they actively attempt to recycle primaries like we do or just stick them in a bunker somewhere to rot. I highly doubt the Russians are as autistic as the DoE is about weapons storage. You would not believe the shit the DoE studies. I have a document from Pantex where they were trying to figure out why their wood fiber casement was rusting their stainless storage casks. Turns out that lots of wood fiber came from Louisiana sugar cane plantations. It attracted shitloads of flys, so they sprayed it with a chlorine compound to keep them away. This leached into the wood fiber which in turn leached into the stainless steel. I used it and a materials test for our engineer to generate a report to get an insurance company to pay for the corroded metal roof decking on a building. Even he was like "where did you find this shit?".>Energy.gov my nigga
>>64598914Seconding, also to clarify.Marquis de Custine was a huge russiaboo and went to Russia specifically to gather material on how based and trad their autocratic monarchy was compared to degenerate western faggotry. Then Russian reality hit him and he got disillusioned HARD.
>>64598385For fiscal year 2026, the NNSA wants 30 billion dollars doos. That's just the NNSA.
>>64599009https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/doe-fy-2026-vol-1-nnsa.pdf
>>64598914>>64598998Any particular translations I should buy?
>>64598504Yes. failing to cooperate in concealing unpaved roads with the state is not permitted. Really.
>>64598562Watch the Tetris docudrama on Amazon or Netflix
>>64598501no, but the same point is completely correct for shit like "checkmate"like what an embarrassing thing to name your plane, it just reeks of approval seeking and desperation, might as well call it the wecantotallybeatyou, it sounds like something a toddler came up with.
>>64598289Well done anon
>>64598466>Most of Russian ICBM old silos must be a fucking messThey are.>but im pretty sure that their submarine nuclear missiles work just fine.Bulava has like a 55% failure rate in testing. They have problems getting the second and third stages to ignite reliably, or without burning through their nozzles and shit. None of Russia's nukes are reliable, be it silo based ICBMs, TEL/MEL and rail based ICBMs and IRBMs, or their SLBMs.>>64598268Yeah, it's around $1 million USD annually to maintain each MMIII ICBM.
>>64598829here's a table totaling last declared russian nuke arsenal. it's likely gone down since then because the primary reason russia has dropped out of the START treaty was to conceal the shrinking size of its nuclear arsenal, same with the subs.>a core deterrent of ~500 missiles that are kept fully operationalyou're confusing missiles with warheads, their ground forces had only ~300 ICBMs deployed total that are armed, with the caveat that their R-36M2 fleet housing a full third of their warheads is now two decades past expiration date, was maintained by Ukraine who originally manufactured them and this maintenance stopped in 2015, a year after russians taking crimea and starting donbabwe insurrection with their troops. who knows what Ukrainians could've tempered with during that year but russian efforts to supplant their maintenance had no avail and there's been no tests of those missiles since.with this being the state of the officially deployed and armed ICBMs you can approximate the state of their remaining stocks that sit empty in storage.>>64598977https://ridl.io/russian-strategic-forces-after-the-start-treaty-the-problem-of-zombie-submarines/here's a good article talking about how a full half of russian SSBNs are basically permanently canned and not operational, just doing theatrics for the media juggling around captains between the subs because they were made in the 1980s. the only subs that can be considered in service are the ones built in the last two decades, carrying the bulava SLBM with a development tarnished by a quite long string of failures. the subs themselves are built out of cannibalized hulls and parts of the soviet-era unfinished and scrapped vessels, with a low speed electric drive taken from their diesel electric subs added to improve their quietness a little.
>>64599150>and there's been no test launches of those missiles since.edited for clarity
>>64598829>~500 missiles that are kept fully operationalThat would be $500 million USD per year to keep them in working order, and that doesn't account for all the corruption and skimming money from the funds at each level until you're left with $100 million to spilt between 500 missiles. Also, based on recent tests, I doubt that, as the SARRmat has like an 80% failure rate in testing and Bulava isn't much better, setting around 60% failure rates. Topol M failed, too, rather recently, and has been a failure for decades.https://jamestown.org/new-strategic-missile-fails-fifth-test/
>>64599141>None of Russia's nukes are reliable, be it silo based ICBMs, TEL/MEL and rail based ICBMs and IRBMs, or their SLBMs.Topol and its MIRV modded bus variant RS-24 have been decently reliable, with an asterisk that they use liquid fuel for their upper stage/bus to get the desired accuracy despite the rest of the missile being solid fueled.It's really the only good deterrent russia has.There are some glaring vulnerabilities in its deployment that cast doubt on its viability as a second strike weapon though, which commonly get ignored when talking about survivability of mobile launchers.
>>64598562>from 1991-2022>2022>not 2025Is something happened? hmmm weird
>>64598922Imagine sucking all that dick to get a cushy pog assignment at a nuke base only to get sent to the trenches anyways.https://istories.media/en/news/2024/08/18/space-infantry-thrown-on-the-defense-of-the-kursk-oblast/
>>64599187The prologue of the book was a series of anecdotes about how literally every Western businessman in Moscow in late Feb 2022 was cramming as much shit into their suitcases as possible and getting the quickest flights out that they could.
>>64598985They remind me of another demographic.
>>64598314>nukes are expensive to maintainNot if you don't pay the expensive part - people. They have all the resources, just coerce or brainwash population to serve the regime.
>>64599173>Topol and its MIRV modded bus variant RS-24 have been decently reliableProof?
>>64599268>just force the people to maintain the doomsday weapons that will never be used!
this is like the midwit version of nukes aren't real. the high IQ version is: if nukes are real, why does everyone act like they don't?
>>64598475The is such a great video. Putin has such contempt for ordinary Russians that he openly laughs and mocks them when they talk about their problems. And Russians are such buckbroken servile cowardly scum they laugh along with him at how stupid and backward they are.People truly get the leaders they deserve
>>64599287They don't have a very obvious and public history of failing test launches, including on camera. That's the best i've got.
>>64598829>Strategic Rocket Forces are considered one of the more prestigious assignments in the Russian military so the men are better educated, better trained, and better paid than the average conscriptAnd yet they were still being shook down by the mafia at one of their bases.
>>64599290>>just forceKGB is smarter than that. First step is putting the entire population at disadvantage.Then you can use any advantage to reward those you want to be loyal at minimal cost.E.g. if there's a shortage of apartments, cars or no private housing would getting a car and a house or having the opportunity for your children to study abroad sound like a forced work? It's a dream come true, the country is developing, everything's improving! Especially when you get bundled together with similarly blessed people in a closed city where everything's abundant.And to be fair while authoritarians take it to extremes it's the same basic formula used everywhere.
>>64599150>was maintained by Ukraine who originally manufactured them and this maintenance stopped in 2015Even funnier is TASS of all things saying that the Ukrainians terminated their maintenance contract in 2023, one year after 2022 invasion.https://tass.com/defense/1590541>Your ICBM maintenance plan and warranty is declared null and void>Reason: Invaded the country that services them
ICBM on rubber tires has all the strengths of all 3 members of "Triad" but none of the weaknesses.USA has none, yet this single weapon would defeat American nuclear triad.USA tried its own "shell game" version, which had all the weaknesses and none of the strengths.Seriously, did KGB "get to" top Pentagon and political figures to make them do dumb shit, like with Epstein/Kushner blackmail or something?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r4Iavxh9NU&t=5sImagine being some Jr Officer and having to "play along" with this shit. Kid is probably thinking "I'm I going to be Court Martialed as some fall guy patsy? WTF is going on???"
>>64598204>Is Russia a nuclear state?Yeah? In the sense that they could end the world as we know it via a dead hand system that nukes themselves and their neighbors to death like in that Dr. Strange love movie sure. I think most of their ICBM's are rusted out due to post Soviet neglect however.
>>64598989Another good post itt.
>>64600206You're Russian. This is a derogatory accusation.
>>64599074Russia historically mogs the US in chess.
>>64599201Jesus they ALL died...
>>64599321then you are the "new russian" not like the old russian lmao
>>64599291trvthwit: russia hasn't maintained them since december 1981
>>64602242>n PPP Russia's economy is about the size of Germany'slol, lmao even
>>64600206This is pre-DOS computing era shit you retard.Everyone in the film is dead of old age.
>>64600595They cannot strike geographical neighbors - cannot afford.
>>64602242>But they're also living off of what the Soviet union left them.The reason why defense costs are so low in Russia is that when Russia builds a "new" tank, they pull a hull from storage and put storaged parts on that. When Germany builds a new tank, they build a new tank.
>>64599150>a full half of russian SSBNs are basically permanently canned and not operationalNTA, but all of the Deltas can launch their missiles while moored at their piers, so it is actually possible that they are 'not operational' in the sense that they can't dive or even more under their own power but still function as floating silos.Which obviously limits their target choices, but they can reach Europe from the bases around Murmansk.
>>64602769>NTA, but all of the Deltas can launch their missiles while moored at their piersIf they can't maintain the subs they definitely can't maintain the liquid fuel missiles inside of them, seeing as they don't even have crews onboard.
>>64602242>But there's a reason why power ministries (defense, intelligence, etc) use it as their main country comparison metric.LolLmao
>>64602242>In PPP Russia's economy is about the size of GermanyNo it's not. It also completely ignores imports end exports.
>>64602400>>64602813>>64602836Wow. Shoulda put a trigger warning before that post.
>>64598204nukes and moon landings are an agreed upon lies because each actor involved benefits from it.
>>64602773They have five or so Deltas still in missile launching configuration and in service, the others are all being rebuilt as 'special purpose' (i.e. underwater sabotage) or completely out of service.And as insane as that sounds, the liquid fuelled SLBMs on the Delta IVs actually seem to be somewhat reliable.
>>64598444Don't forget about all these state sponsored Lord of The Ring retelling where orks and Sauron are good guys
Is OP a faggot?
>>64598204unknown. Only way to find out would be invasion directed at occupying both muscovia and pidorsburg. as those are the only two cities they would actually retaliate for. All other imperial provinces are fair game for conventional war. All of their weapon tests show though the the failure rate is definitely going to be in the high double digit percentage But there are other interesting dilemmas that have risen about realistic nuclear war with monkes big chimp out>nooks will almost never be used in nook vs nook state wars. Outside one side facing complete defeat. See chinks vs vatniks over Siberia>in non nook vs nook state the threat of getting bombed is real. As the post WW2 lethargy is gone now and US is permanently one election cycle away from bipolar disorder. So aggressors with nooks can use bombs against a non nook state with impunity. Only thing stopping zegroids now is changs ban on the idea. As they don't want Taiwan to go nuclear as soon as western big boys predictably cuck out>so the incentive is now for everybody and their dogs to get their hands on nooks. Not because it prevents wars but because it stops aggressive imperialists with nooks from bombing you in an effort to exterminate. In fear of getting bombed themselves. This does not exclude conventional war though>when weapons are used all horseshit about counter value and whatnot gets thrown out of the window as the academic thought exercises they were. Ziggers are bombing with conventional warheads deliberately targeting civilians. Simply to spread terror and try and depopulate areas. if they do use the big bombs it will be to kill as many civilians as possible, i.e. carpet bomb urban centers with the warheads>anybody facing these nook imperialists that will be capable of getting the bombs in the coming years, like poles and ukranians, will also deliberately target Moscow in particular for nuclear bombing if ziggers go that far. Hatred and contempt is a two way street
>>64598204Nigg-lear
>>64598829This approach would be in line with what we've seen elsewhere on navy and land units; lots of equipment on paper but only a portion gets maintained at full operational status. Hence Moskva not having fully operational systems as it wasn't expected to fight anyone.
who knows? (not putin lol)
>>64606633>US is permanently one election cycle away from bipolar disorderThe US is several terms deep INTO bipolar disorder, it's just a question which phase they're in at the moment.
>>64599150>the subs themselves are built out of cannibalized hulls and parts of the soviet-era unfinished and scrapped vessels, with a low speed electric drive taken from their diesel electric subs added to improve their quietness a little.Yup, you are right about that one>https://desuarchive.org/k/search/text/borey/Ironically, the soviet rusty shitbox with the humpback and liquid-fueled SLBM might actually function better than the cursed bulava, albeit probably only as a pier side floating silo.
>>64598289Good post.
>>64602969>Im only pretending to be retarded
>>64598204without a doubt, nuclear forces and submarine fleet are just about the only things they haven't neglected in the recent decades
>>64598829>Strategic Rocket Forces are considered one of the more prestigious assignments in the Russian military so the men are better educated, better trained, and better paid than the average conscriptKek, funny how year or two ago part of it was just redirected to the war as regular soldiers.
>>64598289F(ourth)pbp
>>64598444AFAIK certain zigger groups tried to reclaim it by larping as wH40k orcs on telegram
>>64598501we need to make NATO callsigns based again
>>64598321Simple, the Russians are desperate to be taken seriously. They want to go back to what they see as their 'rightful place' as the de-facto and unchallenged 'second power' in the world when compared to the USA. The fact that the USSR's strength was heavily reliant on propaganda and Potemkin displays doesn't bother them - they just want people to be afraid of them, because that's all they can hang on to considering that (outside of their criminal elite) their country is basically a third world shitpit for the average Russian. Honestly I think they should just lean into it at this point, and try to have a team of KGB men steal the Statue of Liberty while dressed as pic related.
>>64598204An old and stinky, I'd say.
What would happen in case of nuclear war? How many Russian missiles would fail?
>>64598321>>nuclear tsunami torpedoes>sounding like cartoon villainsThis is always the goto for the ridiculous russian mindset, its so over the top
>>64598204They have at least 100~ working nookz, the rest are just decorations.However politicians are still afraid of one working nook.It's like having 20,000 T-72s but more than 75% of them are in storage and only 1000 are active with most getting whacked in Ukraine.China meanwhile is underreporting their nook numbers, no way those perfidious slanty eyed fucks only have 300-500 nookz. They probably breached 1000 a decade ago.
>>64598204Saw this video the other day about nuclear fracking. Yes for oil and gas extraction. US did some trials with it but decided irradiating the gas wasnt worth it. Basically they set off nukes underground to shatter gas holding layers of rock. The 60s were a hell of a time.The USSR being who they were also did this. The death toll was several hundred, and the heavily irradiated gas was simply used. We dont have good figures as little research was done on the soviet archives after the fall of the USSR and Russia doesnt allow the west access anymore.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsu0lHkOIFg&t=349s&pp=ygUQTnVjbGVhciBmcmFja2luZw%3D%3D
>>64598435Russia does do nucear testing though. Famously their nuclear powered missiles, one of which accidentally exploded near murmansk in 2017. By the radiation wave we could tell it was nuclear.
>>64598998Sounds like the marxists like Orwell and Camu getting disillusioned after seeing the reality of Stalinism. Its like every generation has a few authors who have the scales fall of their eyes with Russia.
>>64598314That's the neat trick, they don't and just say they do. Then bribe or threaten anyone who can expose it.
>>64611911>slanty eyed fucksthat an interesting insult that coming from one of them
>>64611981That's also why the worst enemy of the communist is not the landowner, banker or priest, but the moderate socialist, one who is in it for the good of the people and is open to improving his opinions.
>>64599291Because they're expensive and a great sink for black budget money.
>>64611873>What would happen in case of nuclear war? How many Russian missiles would fail?It was said just above that we do not know.Depends on which missile and how lucky/unlucky they were when picking which units to test.Here :>>64599141 55% fail for RSM-56Here :>>64599166 60% fail for RSM-56RS-28 has barely been tested but failed hard.Topol-M failed and succeeded some tests.If we want to be generous, let's say 50% failure rate.
>>64598204>Is Russia a nuclear state?My beloved Fatherland, the Russian Federation, surely has nuclear weapons, but our blological weapons have been much more important, because people of our country (and other countries) matter, we are natural biological weapons.>>64598206Oh come on! It would be stupid to hit a part of our beloved Solar System of the Milky Way Galaxy with a nuclear strike and infect a part of the Earth's planet with radiation just to convince you!
Best comparison Ive seen is with France. Prewar, Frances military budget was ~60 billion USD, AND russias was ~80ish billion, so they are comparable. France maintains about 290 nuclear weapons, either air launched cruise missle or submarine launched ICBMs. It costs France between 15-20 percent of their military budget to maintain those weapons. russia claims anywhere from 4500-7000 weapons, either on active standby or reserve, with delivery systems filling the nuclear triad. Budgets for maintenance of them are far harder to come by, but reported values range from 1-5 percent of their budget, so they spend 10% of what France does to maintain 20 times the number of nukes, and this doesnt account for corruption and embezzlement. Now, how much maintenance do the weapons actually need? Hard question, a lower armed country like France would want every nuke to fire and work, but russia might only care for 1 in 5 to actually work properly, launch to detonate.Factor in the attitudes being brought up earlier in this thread of "why not pocket the maintenance money since they wont be used, or Ill die if they are anyway"Id estimate high end 80-150 actual working, more likely about 20 (some of each delivery system) as effective showpieces to write reports on and show off to the superiors/politicians they report to
>>64598210>ook?Nook-nook-nook NOOOOK
>>64598204Unfortunately, "just enough" of one. Maybe "more than enough." If they have 100 functioning warheads on functioning delivery systems, it's more than enough. That would be about 1/3% to 1/2% of the known devices in inventory ... so do you feel lucky enough to bet against worse than 99% odds? Even if it's literally russian roulette where 1000 or 2000 missiles are launched and "only" 10 or 20 of them land within 3 km of their intended target?Didn't think so.Also, as bad as their functioning inventory might be in, as far as maintenance & such, it's a pretty reasonable assumption that if they launch 100, it will be their "best" 100 and then you might be looking at at least a 50% success rate. And you know these krokodil niggers are going to drop them in the middle of cities just because war crimes are funny as all fuck.Yeah. So, unfortunately, "just enough."
>>64611892The funniest thing about poseidon is its heritage>copy of a soviet project that got shitcanned in the 60s >which in turn was a response to earlier us nuclear tests>which concluded that nuking the sea to get big waves is a fucking dumb ideaBut putler gotta have his wunderwaffe.
>>64616265Sauce ?
>>64618140Physics. Bog standard, basic, high school physics. Try google &/or wikipedia.
>>64618193>Physics. Bog standard,Check your phone, someone's calling.
>>64598364>Moscow and Petersburg has paved roads.Only downtown, you don't have to drive far to find dirt roads. Whole country is a Potemkin village.
>>64611892>500 meters high tsunami>All over the british islands>100 megatonsWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale applies here.You would need an explosion of at a very minimum 2500 times that to displace that much water barely a few kilometers inside the land.
>>64618193What is the name of the Soviet project that supposedly got shitcanned?
>>64610269Only proper answer that isn't delusionmaxxing
>>64598321That’s enough to humiliate Ukraine
>>64598204Allegedly.
>>64598314Its probably due to the fact than a nuclear engineer in russia makes about as much as a janitor in a flyover state This is why people who understimate China are retarded
>>64602996You could just read the article instead of making shit up to cope about the situation russian subs are in, you know.
let's find out
>>64611873Nothing, because the ayys turned off all the nukes.
>>64611943Project Plowshare put forth some pretty wacky ideas.
>>64619644nta, but wdym ?
>>64622403if you follow the reply chain up the original post talking about russian ssbns links an article observing their activities in detail
>>64620244i dont get it
>>64598204obviously. if they weren't, we'd be parading in red square right now.
>>64618993apparently it's this one>https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2-15_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82)This remark line up with what's being discussed>Идeя вызвaть иcкyccтвeннoe цyнaми мoщным (дo 100 мeгaтoнн т. э.) взpывoм y бepeгa CШA пpинaдлeжит aкaдeмикy Лaвpeнтьeвy. B 1962 гoдy oн нaпиcaл дoклaднyю зaпиcкy Хpyщёвy, пo инициaтивe кoтopoгo для пpoвepки эффeктoв мoщнoгo пpибpeжнoгo пoдвoднoгo взpывa в ЦHИИ-12 Mиниcтepcтвa oбopoны были пpoвeдeны экcпepимeнты. Их peзyльтaты пoкaзaли, чтo внe зaвиcимocти oт мoщнocти пoдвoднoгo взpывa peaльный yщepб мoг бы быть нaнecён пpибpeжным oбъeктaм CШA нa paccтoянии 2, мaкcимyм 5 км oт ypeзa вoдыTranslation: The idea of causing an artificial tsunami with a powerful explosion (up to 100 megatons of TNT) off the coast of the United States belongs to Academician Lavrentiev. In 1962, he wrote a memorandum to Khrushchev, on whose initiative experiments were conducted at the Central Research Institute No. 12 of the Ministry of Defence to test the effects of a powerful coastal underwater explosion. The results showed that regardless of the power of the underwater explosion, real damage could be caused to coastal facilities in the United States at a distance of 2 to 5 km from the coastline.I mean, something like this can easily be done by a w76 warhead on a TLAM-N. An airburst 100kt w76 can easily vaporize anything within 3km radius. It's quite clear the triple megaton torpedo was always going to be a retarded and insanely inefficient.
>>64622774They wanted to use nuclear bombs to widen the panama canal, or excavate new ones. One of the proposals involved using 520 2MT devices to create an alternative to the Suez Canal.https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/453701.pdf
Using nuclear bombs for expanding a canal, that is a new one
>>64622990>that is a new one70 years old actually
>>64598321Propaganda anon, the soviet Union survived 70 years thanks to propaganda.
>>64598204I'm guessing 90% of their nuclear capability is inoperable, including the large multi-megaton warheads they used to had. They probably have only enough to nuke a few cities, assuming everything works. A smart leader would make sure the nukes would be in tip top shape even at the expense of everything else, top priority. But this is Russia, the empire of the absurd, so who knowsalso pic related is an interesting book on the absurdity of russia/the soviet union. its available free from the authors website.
>>64624612>also pic related is an interesting book on the absurdity of russia/the soviet union. its available free from the authors website.>Author is EstonianSounds tasty from the few parts I skimmed, thanks anon.
>>64624612https://laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-the-absurd/It's not even a pdf. It's just a webpage. Kek.
>>64598959>Reliable Warhead Replacement Programdamn another good Bush Era idea left to rot because Obama had to be "different"
