DASO 27 launching a Trident II UGM 133A on USS Maryland (SSBN 738). DASO 27 took place on August 31, 2016. DASO stands for Demonstration and Shakedown Operation.
Modern warfare is crazy, this behemoth of a rocket bursts out from deep water in a middle of nowhere and can hit any place on earth with laser precision with potentionally carrying a nuclear warhead in it. Scary and awe
Beautiful video. My understanding is the missile does that first little zag to get some distance from sub in case it goes Challenger - don’t want chunks of missile falling back on your boat. Notice the aerospike popping out at 0:12 or so? That is to…get better a.m. radio reception(?)…ok, I don’t actually know.
The spike is an aerodynamic feature. At those speeds, it lessens the drag on the missile. And the "zag" is entirely random....the guidance system rights itself once the engine ignites.
The missile wouldn’t be able to constructively guide itself underwater because the Thrust Vector Control requires an open atmosphere. The missile has enough momentum from the submarine’s pressurized tube to propel itself above the water surface. Once above water, the TVC can accurately guide the missile.
They dont need to. They can fire a missle from as deep as 200 feet. The exact depth is classified. Seeing one come out of the water is amazing. Imagine seeing 14 to 20 coming out within a few minutes.
well they used to be deployed carrying a combination of live MIRVs and decoys to confuse any enemy anti-ballistic missile defenses so they can increase the chances of some of our live warheads finding their targets
@@derekwall200 They should be able to meander (zig zag) upon reentry like the Russian versions, otherwise even at Mach 25 the trajectory is too predictable.
@@derekwall200 Hypersonics like Yu74 which are very fast and meander accordingly....if loaded with nuclear tipped fragmenting warheads, can render UGM133 or France's M51 impotent.
I'm pretty sure that the US and Russia bith have more warheads than the other has available interceptors to shoot them down with, so the whole hypersonics thing for delivering strategic nukes is kind of just a moot point. HGVs is just spending hujdreds of billions of dollars so that you get vaporized in 5 minutes instead of 30.
@@derekwall200 it would have been very Damaging if it was ever to be used... It also meant that the Soviets had to create something equally scary to balance the power which could have led to an escalation of nuclear armament.
