Tricky comments. And who did you want to frighten a nuclear warhead?
For the money we will return a little lower. First things first.
It all started with the announcement of the dogma that there is in the world a beautiful, proven on Japanese cities means of destruction - nuclear weapons!
Post on "Lente Ru", which was published quite recently, shook the minds of some" military experts "and" representatives of the military industrial complex ". But, probably, it is more correct to write," shaken. "From a word hesitate. If the jelly slightly push, then the oscillation will begin throughout the system. Well, the structure is so unstable.
What did the colleagues from Lenta.Ru find?
"About this in the article" How the modernization of the US nuclear forces undermines strategic stability, "published in the journal Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, writes a group of leading US military experts: Director of the Nuclear Information Center of the Federation of American Scientists Hans Christensen, well-known expert in rocket technology, Theodore Postol, and Matthew McKinsey, director of nuclear programs at the National Council for the Protection of Natural Resources. "
"... the observers missed the real revolution in strategic armaments, which the United States conducted since 2009. It is about equipping nuclear warheads W76-1 / Mk.4 (power 100 kilotons, installed on Trident II naval missiles) with a new super-explosive system (super-fuze) MC4700. If previously no more than 20 percent of naval missile blocks could be used against protected targets, now their share approaches 100 percent. "
A small retreat. Many servicemen mistakenly believe that hitting the target must necessarily be direct. Primitive and outdated view of things. I saw the target, took aim and fired. A bullet or projectile hits the target and hits it.
We emphasize the bullet or projectile. Well, let's leave the bullets alone, let's look at the example of a projectile.
It happens that the projectile for a bunch of reasons flies past the target? It happens. And then you need to use the latest American design. Namely new fuses.
Is the projectile flying higher? Supercomputer on your gun calculated. He gave the command and, before reaching some meters there, the fuse works, and ... It is difficult to assume, but if it is high-explosive, then there will be some sense. Hit Naturally. Defeat? Hmm ...
Here is a modern approach to the latest weapons design. The main thing is not a defeat, but a hit!
After reading what is written above, many former military personnel and those who work with weapons today, probably smiled. "Incompetent dedication"? Perhaps, but then what thoughts arose while reading, and so we use. A lot of fun, the American experts decided to "dissolve the administration and the US Congress." Yes, and we "frighten."
But, on the other hand, there is a weapon of this type of action. Already not one century exists. Artillery can not boast of such a fuse, but shrapnel "covers infantry" for centuries. There is no centimeter accuracy, but there is an amount turning into quality.
But back to what the American nuclear weapons experts are talking about.
"The peculiarity of the MC4700 system is that it is able to compensate for part of the“ fly-overs ”by early undermining the unit at a small height above the target."
Simply put, a high-power missile with a nuclear weapon does not always hit the target accurately. The probability of such a hit is estimated by experts about 1 to 2. Approximately 50%. You have to agree that when destroying underground objects, naturally, seriously protected from such strikes, this launch may not be possible to achieve.
And if so, then the enemy launcher, and in this case it is directly referred to the Russian or Chinese PU, will work normally. And the answer will follow with high probability.
What “compensates for the blunders” of the new fuze? It is what is written about at the beginning of the article.
A smart computer for 80-60 kilometers counts the magnitude of a miss and issues a command to self-detonate the ammunition over the target. That’s all. And the power of this ammunition allows you to hit the target, even without direct exposure. Simply put, now the probability of hitting is nearing optimal. To be precise, the Americans give the probability of hitting 83% for highly protected objects (capable of withstanding pressure in 10000 psi), and 99% for well-protected objects (2000 pounds).
But there are doubts. Ground or submerged object, he, of course, a nuclear explosion that is one kilometer away, which is five. The result will be quite good, because everyone knows about the multi-stage impact of a nuclear explosion.
But with objects that are safely hidden not just underground, but protected by mountains as?
By the way, there is another simple but logical question. And what means the enemy's air defense? They are kind of like no? Not at all? After all, to defeat serious objects, the power of the ammunition is no less than 100 kilotons, which is what was mentioned above. And such power in an inconspicuous rocket can not be built. We need a serious carrier.
American experts have the answer. The ammunition is located on Trident II sea-based missiles (UGM-133A Trident II (D5) - "trident"). It is such missiles from 1990 that constitute the main (up to 52%) strike force of the American strategic nuclear forces. And besides the United States, there are such missiles in the UK. In a small, true amount.
US strategic missile submarine capable of launching this three-stage monster, just a little. Ohio-class missile carriers, namely, they are armed with 24-me "Tridents" each, are always under the supervision of the enemy. Therefore, they will not be able to come close to the coast; here it is clear that our naval fleets will watch out. And what remains?
It remains for what they were once created. And missile carriers, and missiles. Shooting from a decent distance (5-12 000 km). What makes all the other "innovations" and "achievements" of the US military-industrial complex questionable. Including the "revolutionary" fuse.
Just because the three-stage ballistic Trident II, which is quite fast in terms of speed and well visible from everywhere, is removed by modern means of video conferencing and missile defense systems of Russia with a high degree of probability.
506 of such units is deployed in the USA today. According to Pentagon experts, 272 is enough for complete suppression of Russian silo-based PUs. From this "arithmetic" it becomes clear the purpose of this study. Amphibious Target. Lung cancer.
First, the money of American taxpayers did not go into the sand. The Pentagon has weapons and the ability to destroy the enemy, whoever he is, a preemptive strike of modern weapons. The security of the country is guaranteed!
Secondly, the new US President Trump is simply obliged to allocate funds for research and development of new strategic missiles! Almost 30-year-old "Trident" will soon not be able (or rather, no longer can) be used effectively.
Only one thing is strange. Trident II is not only equipped with 100 kiloton warheads. Some missiles are equipped with a more destructive 455-kiloton "head." And for these missiles, too, blocks (W88) have been created. And in terms of quantity, this component is not much less than the 100-kiloton (384 block). Probably, the Pentagon "saved" these data for the "appropriate case" when it will be necessary to show something else to the president.
In general, it is clear that the Americans are well aware of the lag of their Armed Forces in terms of equipment not only from the Russian Armed Forces, but also from the Chinese. And such statements, which today appear periodically in the media, are designed primarily for the "very nervous system" of military departments of likely adversaries. Make the scare and start another "arms race." Even the numbers and performance characteristics of weapons, which have always been a taboo for the press, are openly walking in the media today.
Strange approach. On the one hand, even somehow it is not accepted, perhaps, to tell the whole world about such achievements like that. Especially those who seem to be the undisputed leader and all that. There is no need. First - he is the first in Africa.
We once very nicely talked about "Bulava", "Sinev", "Leiner", "Iskander", "Caliber". We really needed to “partners” to make sure that we have the latest weapon systems. Effective and deadly.
After last year’s start-ups, the Calibrov seems to be everything. Silence. Whoever did not believe, also does not believe, and it was clearly reached who it was supposed to reach. And here's the result: now the United States clearly puts itself in the role of a catch-up.
But this is "and we have ... and we have ..." The Trident "with superpribluda"! You do not see there that he is as old as ... well, everyone understood how, he is still very good! And with a super fuse - and in general! And you in Russia and China will still have a cap!
No, no doubt, Ohio is a good combat complex, reliable, proven for decades of service. And the Trident, too, as a combat system, does not cause any particular doubts in its ability to deliver 100 kilotons to a specific point on the globe. The question of the quality and effectiveness of the application today.
Here, as if we have something to argue, but the point is not that. The bottom line is that it is not by chance that the Americans began to talk so actively about the fact that they would still win everybody. Here the only question is who they want to convince more: the new president, to give more money or Russia and China, so that they are still afraid.
We think that after all the first option. Money. For what frighten us? We are scared ...
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