We have less now. Due to nuclear reductions treaties. The targeting stuff is all improved but the warheads are really similar except for better safety features which are really only to prevent accidents.
@@sevenrats When I retired in 1981 after 19 years in the Minuteman system, we had reduced to 1 RV per missile and NO decoys as per treaty. I think that we 400 we still have on alert are probably the same still.
@@billn9910 Not since the US pulled out of START. The current fleet is being retrofitted with MIRVs and new weapons being developed are based on MIRV technology.
@@carolinasmedicalillustrati6760 This is incorrect for the Minuteman III weapon system. The US still abides by the New START Treaty and only have 1 RV per ICBM. MIRVs are only generated for test launches every few years or so.
Gary Watson exactly, it's rather foolish to use decoys when all reentry vehicles can be.....all warheads..After all during a nuclear war, all that arms treaty jargon won't mean anything...
This comment i think show you don't really know what you're talking about. Warheads are heavy, the US' smallest missile warhead for example, the W76, weighs in at about 300lb. For the same weight you could be looking at a dozen inflatable Mylar decoys, 300lb of aluminum plastic strips as chafe, electronic warfare equipment etc. As for treaties, if you violate them the Russians will find out, before a nuclear war has happened. Both sides do verify each other is in compliance. They don't blindly trust them to follow it you know.
When they hit the atmosphere, the comparatively light decoys start slowing way down compared to the heavy RVs. So the decoys have those motors to keep their deceleration equal to the RVs, prolonging the ruse. But now the enemy can tell which are real and which are decoys! So the real RVs have smaller motors that burn simply to make them look the same as the decoys. But they do not provide significant thrust; it's more like the tracer compound in a bullet. Anyway current RVs don't have any of that now, because we don't use any penaids at all.
@@dziban303 oh interesting. I am sure we do use these still but just not "officially". Have to wonder about all these pronounced MIRV rollbacks. Very difficult to verify. It's not like when we decommissioned silos due to non-proliferation treaties and left the visible signs so the Russians could see from space that we complied.
This is just a Pyro Flash concept, most likely never implemented, add more miniaturized RVs if anything, along with energy independence and now it's clear that we need a reinvention of our own manufacturing base to be independent of supply line shortages
The implication is that the deterrent umbrella is significantly different- or has systems which are distinct. Perhaps the SLBM is truly *the* determining object in any nation's deterrent. The UK and France only field these if I'm correct. The importance is keeping our subs quiet and undetected and ready to deliver upon a valid order. I couldn't imagine a job more important while simultaneously being frightening beyond comprehension. Is there some sort of "post-launch clarity"? What will their reactions be knowing what their job has accomplished? What can stop MIRVs at 20 times the speed of sound. It's many miles per second. Godspeed to those who are serving as our deterrent. Heres to hoping we will never find out what they can do
@@Chironex_Fleckeri " Perhaps the SLBM is truly the determining object in any nation's deterrent. " Oh.....there is no doubt about it. The enemy can attack our land based systems but they know.....for sure....that the SLBMs are going to get them.
@@Chironex_Fleckeri "The UK and France only field these if I'm correct. " SLBMs ? No, the U.S. and Russia also have them. From what I read 5 nations have SLBMs.
@@Chironex_Fleckeri "Is there some sort of "post-launch clarity"? What will their reactions be knowing what their job has accomplished?" That's a VERY good question. When I was in the Air Force we launched all of our aircraft off the base once during an exercise. I was young.....I turned to our supervisor and asked him, "Hey Sarge, what do we do now? All the planes are gone." His answer to me was to chuckle and say, "Airman, now we die. Because enemy missiles will be about 15 minutes away from impact on our base." That was very sobering. I guess the conventional answer would be that we would prepare the base to receive returning bombers should they or us survive.
@@rael5469 There are 7 nations so far that have SLBMs - the 5 UN Security Council powers as well as India and North Korea. Very recently, Japan and South Korea are developing non-nuclear SLBMs.
Is the purpose of the pyrotechnic motor to counter optical target discrimination or to compensate differences in atmospheric drag between decoys and warheads during reentry?
What could possibly go wrong? How about an I.C.B.B.? Intercontinental Ballistic Burrito? I know whenever I eat a burrito from the local convenience store I “drop the bomb” in less than 15 minutes!
" The only winning move is not to play" (Wargames)....Location location location if your in a large population area or near a military of some kind odds are not good for you..if you do survive the blast then there is fallout prevention and food and water,medical needs for survival ..,Just a few things...
So what if there is a major storm or weather event ? Does the mirv warhead still stay accurate? I know when shooting high power rifles , wind still has an impact. Also , re entry is not a perfect thing . The shuttle and satalights have had to use gas jets and fins/flaps to be on target. Maybe they have such things, just not telling us ?
One thing I do know is that they generally only use a single re-entry vehicle per missile now. I don't think this system would be required, but other methods like chaffs might be deployed
@@kevinmg3x355 Depends on the missile and warhead in question. The current US Minuteman III has three warheads plus chaff and other decoys. The US Trident II has four warheads (under New START limitations) and the remaining space for the other warheads is taken up by decoys. The British-version Trident II and French M51 are under no treaty limitations (and no one cares because there's not as many of them) and can carry 10+ warheads AND chaff and decoys. The Chinese, Russians, and North Koreans are never upfront about what they have anymore. And the Indians, well, who cares what the Indians have.
The way they depicted the "drop" seemed wrong. The entire bus is already dropping. Seems to me that one would launch the RV forward and sideways before the peak.
I assume it's because they can't make the inflatable shroud on the decoy out of the same heat shield material as the RV. So to make them look the same they gave the RV a shroud made of the inflatable material.
Why do the RVs have a such a small rocket motor? Just do have the same signature as the decoys? Also: why do the RVs have a outer shell that is ejected?!
the RV ejects a shroud to look more like the decoy. the decoys have a much lower weight so they need a larger rocket to go fast through the upper atmosphere, while the real RV has more weight and momentum
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Her creation is destruction. These creators of destruction will ever see the new creation? No, their home is hell, from there comes the idea and creation of destruction.
A few countries have ABM systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile All of these systems have very limited range due to the extremely high speed intercept, they amount more to denial of area systems for a bubble of a few hundred kilometers.
@@Haunt888 I don’t know where you got this stupid idea that Soviet is ruzzia. Soviet Union was a well developed self sustainable economy and the most powerful military in the world. To give you a perspective, the Soviet Union was a mighty red bear that everyone was afraid of, that bear is dead, ruzzia is a bear’s louse in comparison.
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@@thomasjaeger9811 My point: him capslocking like a mad man... and being american but still couldn't write the language :) Im not american so navy and army is the same for me, im not used to differ them, army in my country means overall in the armed forces :)
The heaviest Soviet ICBM, the R-36M, was capable of putting up to 8,800 kg of warheads and decoys into orbit. The heaviest US ICBM, the LGM-118 Peacekeeper pictured in this video, was capable of putting only 4000 kg into orbit. That's a pretty big difference.
That's true. 1st-generation ICBMs like the Soviet R7 and the American Atlas were highly inaccurate. As such, they needed larger warheads to effectively destroy their targets.
So you would use real warheads as decoys? Or needlessly fire multiple warheads at the same target? Seems wasteful if a simple decoy can get the job done.
Yes, the countermeasures or decoys if they work and very well, there have been many tests of countermeasures and if they work and if they deceive, I guess the enemy will have to launch the interceptors to try to destroy all the decoys and warheads which will be multiple (MIRV) And they will also be maneuvering, dodging and changing their trajectory (MARV) and also the modern medium and long range ballistic missiles can carry HGV (hypersonic Glide vehicle) which are nuclear warheads that go at speeds of Mach 15 to Mach 20 (15 or 20 times faster than sound) or simply warheads with the speed of ballistic missiles, which also maneuver and you can also add all the countermeasures that exist with these warheads.
SLBMs are much more useful than ICBMs in a... real exchange . These missiles are just so expensive. They do serve an important role but think. You can find these silos easily. They've been there many years..but where is the submarine with its Tridents. Then you have the B-2 and 5th gen strike aircraft that we mow know convincingly would get through ADS easily and drop B61-12 . The LGM-118 was the Missileers best tool but it was treatied out . Also, it was expensive beyond its usefulness when the submarines. Just one can do so much
I will prepare Three special missiles for the three main antichrist contain ten war heads the ones just mentioned plus the bottom level of Hell, the scorpions sting, the heart break of every person rejected at heavens gate, the pig, Ndaa hell l, hell dog and the coffin
They can. But the NEW START Treaty doesn’t allow it. On Average, we have 4 Nuclear Warheads on on Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles. A mix of W88, 475KT warheads, W76-1, 90KT warheads, and the new W76-2, 5KT, low yield nuclear warhead.
Balloon decoys are lighter than warheads so when they encounter the atmosphere they slow down faster and anti-missile systems can filter them out and concentrate on the warheads. This system uses a rocket in the decoys so that they keep up with the warheads and a dummy rocket in the warheads so they look the same as the decoys.
All a show. This is a 60s concept. Russia has lately scored a very visible point in the realm of penetration but suffered a net loss in parity. Both sides anticipated this and had plenty of time to react, so the question is whether this dynamic serves deproliferation or some third way outcome.
Let's talk some practical , recent terroristss hamass fired 5000 low quality missile on modern high tech iron dome. In which 10 to 20 percentage hit the grounds . Now 🇺🇸 with interceptors systems against ICBMs will never able to stop these deadly MIRV..it's not like 5000 MIRV will approach at short time but even 50 of them approaching will unlikely be intercepted ,becoz they're not so.e cheap missiles, they're are high tech manoeuvring small sized objects at 25 mach And even single neuclear hit will be deadline. Something can be done only before it reenter otherwise after re entry it's just blink of an eye before it strikes
It depends. Motors are used when the gravitational field of Earth cannot pull the RV into the atmosphere. Also, the motors could also be used to confused heat-seeking ICBM defenses.
Zechariah 14: “This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.”
