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Originally Posted by Whale biologist
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missiles can't swim and our tridents carry MIRV ordinance
not a gamechanger unless we don't have a deadman's hand(inshallah)
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Launched from 30 meters underwater, the trident does sort of swim to the surface where it engages its rockets.
Everybody has MIRVs, problem is these days that ICBM payloads are just guided gravity bombs, they don't move fast, the initial ascent stages from launches anywhere on earth are picked up by dozens of satellites.
If MIRVs should be dropped (they come from orbit), air defenses from standoff ranges can destroy them with relative ease. You can launch several ICBMs with dozens of dummy MIRVs, and the chances of hitting a target in a modern nation are slim to none these days.
the time of ICBM is over.
Hypersonic missle development is basically taking the best ideas from all "destroy a whole country" doctrines and putting them into one package.
of course, this is Russia's statement, so taken with a big grain of salt, but any real world proof of concept will make global defense budgets go skyward.