By the way - you left out Acid Rain. That was another nutty leftist thing around the time as the hole in the ozone layer.
Seriously though - there was video from this launch showing the (non-nuclear) warheads hitting. Now I don't know how many nuclear warheads can be in one of these IRBMs because they are smaller than ICBMs I've heard this one can carry 16 with MIRVs but who knows. Maybe only a couple or a few with higher yields can be placed in IRBMs, although this missile contained MIRVs so it likely had more. Judging by the videos there were at least 12.
The warheads are just small nuclear missiles that have targets programmed into them and are released from the main missile at altitude. Kind of like SpaceX releasing dozens of their satellites for StarLink.
These are real and it isn't even hard to believe. They are basically tactical nuclear missiles loaded on top of a rocket. I think they are much better than a high-yield warhead that just wipes out everything around. These things can have much smaller yields (down to .01 megatons) so the radiation would be contained to a small area. They can also have higher yields, though not as high as a single high-yield warhead.
Here is a good writeup on MIRVs from GWU. Wikipedia has one as well. The one on Wikipedia shows a US Peacekeeper ICBM with MIRVs. To me it reminds me of those square fireworks that have rows of whistling bottle rockets.
I overlooked your tone of condescension, and the comedy of using social media and Wikipedia links to back up that condescension.
Any source with .edu, .gov or .mil in a URL is even more suspect. This is not a popular position, since it requires a lifetime of learned and lived exposure to, observation of and acceptance of such vastly, systemically corrupt, conspiratorial and clandestine institutional assaults against the world that most well meaning people are simply incapable or unwilling to acknowledge let alone escape their programming.
As luck would have it, a substacker wrote today about Hiroshima Revisited and I was reminded of our exchange.
As we Texans say - Bless your heart.
By the way - you left out Acid Rain. That was another nutty leftist thing around the time as the hole in the ozone layer.
Seriously though - there was video from this launch showing the (non-nuclear) warheads hitting. Now I don't know how many nuclear warheads can be in one of these IRBMs because they are smaller than ICBMs I've heard this one can carry 16 with MIRVs but who knows. Maybe only a couple or a few with higher yields can be placed in IRBMs, although this missile contained MIRVs so it likely had more. Judging by the videos there were at least 12.
https://x.com/search?q=russian%20irbm&src=typed_query
The warheads are just small nuclear missiles that have targets programmed into them and are released from the main missile at altitude. Kind of like SpaceX releasing dozens of their satellites for StarLink.
These are real and it isn't even hard to believe. They are basically tactical nuclear missiles loaded on top of a rocket. I think they are much better than a high-yield warhead that just wipes out everything around. These things can have much smaller yields (down to .01 megatons) so the radiation would be contained to a small area. They can also have higher yields, though not as high as a single high-yield warhead.
Here is a good writeup on MIRVs from GWU. Wikipedia has one as well. The one on Wikipedia shows a US Peacekeeper ICBM with MIRVs. To me it reminds me of those square fireworks that have rows of whistling bottle rockets.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/NC/mirv/mirv.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle
I overlooked your tone of condescension, and the comedy of using social media and Wikipedia links to back up that condescension.
Any source with .edu, .gov or .mil in a URL is even more suspect. This is not a popular position, since it requires a lifetime of learned and lived exposure to, observation of and acceptance of such vastly, systemically corrupt, conspiratorial and clandestine institutional assaults against the world that most well meaning people are simply incapable or unwilling to acknowledge let alone escape their programming.
As luck would have it, a substacker wrote today about Hiroshima Revisited and I was reminded of our exchange.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thedukereport/p/exposing-the-real-story-of-hiroshima?r=pezuu&utm_medium=ios