The USA produced the first modernized nuclear warhead W88 Alteration 370 for the Trident II D5 SLBM

The US Navy will soon receive Trident II D5 ballistic missiles with a new nuclear warhead. The first production warhead, the W88 Alteration 370, has already been released, according to the US National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA).

According to the NNSA, the first prototype of the improved warhead, the W88 Alteration 370, or W88 Alt 370, rolled off the assembly line on July 1 this year. Some media outlets report a "batch of warheads" without specifying the exact number, but according to the US National Nuclear Security Administration, only one prototype of the warhead has been released at a nuclear plant. weapons Pantex near Amarillo, Texas, and that sounds more like the truth.

It is reported that in the future, the W88 Alt 370, which is an upgraded version of the W88 warhead, will be re-equipped with Trident II D5 SLBMs, which are in service with Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines.

The technical details of the new warhead are highly classified, and the W88 Alteration 370 is said to have taken 11 years to develop. A total of $ 2026 billion has been allocated for the warhead modernization program until 2,3.

Trident is a family of American submarine-based three-stage solid-propellant ballistic missiles. The missile can carry up to 14 W76 (100 kt) individual warheads or up to 8 W88 (475 kt) warheads. The upgraded missiles can carry W76-2 low-yield warheads (up to 8 kt). The maximum flight range is declared at 12 thousand kilometers.

Ohio-class strategic submarines carry 24 Trident II D5 ICBMs. The US Navy has 14 submarines of this class. Of these, eight are in the Pacific Ocean and six are in the Atlantic.

Comments

[faterdom]

So let them return to the good old arms race. Let them spend billions on what they will not fight, but without which the status of a superpower cannot be maintained.

[xorek]

They created for us, well, let them catch up and swallow the dust

[Maxxcc]

Quote: faterdom

So let them return to the good old arms race. Let them spend billions on what they will not fight, but without which the status of a superpower cannot be maintained.

Are you zircons and pasidons?

[Mountain shooter]

We do not advertise such works, but they are much cheaper.

[xorek]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

We do not advertise such works, but they are much cheaper.

Cheap and angry Eugene! Let them catch up if they have time ..

[NIKN]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

not advertised, but much cheaper

They advertise the cost as a report to taxpayers, the rest is a secret, so that the same taxpayer does not understand where the funds went.

[Tsoy]

Ohio-class strategic submarines carry 24 Trident II D5 ICBMs.

They do not carry 24 ICBMs. The ammunition has been cut for a long time due to strategic offensive arms.

[KCA]

What is there to upgrade? We cleaned the nuclear charge and that's it, a free-falling head, there is only an altimeter or a time sensor from the brain

[Vadim237]

Most likely, the new control systems installed and carried out work to improve the design of the thermonuclear charge.

[KCA]

What are the control systems on a free-falling head? Improving the design of the charge is how? There, the parts are lapped to a fraction of a micron, it will be more expensive to change something than to assemble 5 new ones.

[Maikcg]

They gave the captain a flash drive with codes instead of 5 "floppy disks.

[KCA]

Stronger, instead of 8 "floppy disks, I saw such, although there were no readers for them anymore, they were in the archive, although I found 5MB hard drives, ranging in size from 5,25 to 50, like, inches

[voyaka uh]

This is how it is: 0.5 m X 1.75 m

[KCA]

Well, this is a very conventional image, it is clear to the yozhik that there is an initiating charge and lithium for fusion, control is where, what and why? As he wrote, a freely falling head, there is nothing to control, there is either an altimeter or a time sensor

[Errr]

The picture below shows a new arming, initiation and disarming system (W88 ALT 370 MC5000 AF&F).

There is an altimeter in this thing.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: KCA

free-falling head, there is only an altimeter or a time sensor from the brain

Quote: KCA

What are the control systems on a free-falling head?

Colleague! And you are not ashamed to carry such ... nonsense !?
Firstly, these are all individual targeting units. And also DARPA mumbles maneuvering and gliding BBs, which do have a guidance system ... at the target of the strike ... (these are the carrots of the Trident-2 D-5 combat equipment)

Secondly, I will attach, perhaps, a picture of this product. Note that there is more electronics in the BB than in your PC 3-4 times. And you are talking about "cobblestones from the sky." It is a shame in our enlightened age of scientific and technological progress to be in captivity of "pre-cosmic illusions"!
(And this is an "informational occasion" for the article under discussion - W-88 ALT-370 in person!)
[Center]

[glk63]

It is somehow incomprehensible - what does the abundance of electronics have to do with it, after the separation of each head from the "bus"? Judging by the photo, these heads do not have any controls in the atmospheric section. Thus, the accuracy of delivery of these is determined by the moment the heads are separated from the "bus" and no more ... And no electronics will help after that)

[Wolf]

Logically, a warhead with low power will be used against small powers, against Russia or China, NO, because after the first one it will receive 1 MEGA tons of reversal.
If this is logically correct, then they told the world that they would be doing EVIL OVER STATES WHICH DO NOT HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
And for this it is normal that every state wants nuclear weapons, and why North Korea or ZPR needs nuclear weapons. Iran.
Is there another option that they are planning a massive strike against Russia or China, or with missiles with low power, so that you can be sure that a sudden strike will give the desired result?
In this version, it is already AGGRESSION IN RUSSIA AND CHINA, and the answer to the VOEVODE should be given to this.
And in one and the other case, the United States intends to do evil over the people and for this there is NO THREAD OF MERCY THREAD OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION, TO DESTROY AS A COCKROACH?
But I will repeat the answer to the VOIVODES!

[SovAr238A]

The warhead is experimental, not serial.
For it has not yet been determined which particular warhead will stand as on the new BR.
If they, the Air Force and the Navy agree on a single warhead, then it will be called W78-88 / 1.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: SovAr238A

The warhead is experimental, not serial.

No, this is a converted W-88 / Mk-5 and most likely already for Colombia ... and it looks, frankly, "futuristic"

But what is most "intriguing" is that for each such "beater" there is a personal container for storage and transportation .... I have not seen something like this before .... WHAT WOULD IT ALL be for ???

[Vadim237]

For the safety of transportation to the carrier - that's what.

[Boa kaa]

Brilliant!
And if you look more closely, you will see the switches ... maybe even remember something about the microclimate ... Anything can happen ... however.

[dzvero]

Perhaps to be stored anywhere and transported with anything?

[glk63]

Well ... apparently, the temperature regime ...