LGM-35A Sentinel - Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program

[Josh_TN]

Wow, I never knew USN did not do insensitive HE. It seems weird given their exclusion of hypergolics, but I suppose in an SSBN environment, if something reaches the warhead, you are dead anyway.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Wow, I never knew USN did not do insensitive HE. It seems weird given their exclusion of hypergolics, but I suppose in an SSBN environment, if something reaches the warhead, you are dead anyway.

It's a function of having the smallest possible RBAs.

And, as you noted, if something reaches the warhead the whole sub is fubared.

 

[NMaude]

if something reaches the warhead, you are dead anyway.

And, as you noted, if something reaches the warhead the whole sub is fubared.

Anything that causes even a minor hull-breach, unless the SSBN is surfaced or within periscope depth, is lethal.

 

[bobbymike]

Different angle help our sizing experts maybe?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2099704022294733308

View: https://x.com/defense_talks/status/2099704022294733308?s=46

 

[Josh_TN]

“Sizing Experts” kinda sounds like a link to a porn site or ‘male enhancement ‘…

 

[bobbymike]

“Sizing Experts” kinda sounds like a link to a porn site or ‘male enhancement ‘…

It was thinking the title of the gentleman working at John Lobb did my last pair of oxfords.

 

[Josh_TN]

It was thinking the title of the gentleman working at John Lobb did my last pair of oxfords.

Well you know what they say about guys with big shoes…

…they have big feet.

 

[Forest Green]

Sure, and I expect Mk7 to be at least as big as the Mk5, while only holding about as much boom as the Mk4.

I suspect the other way round - 250-350kt has been mooted.

 

[wtna7]

The Innovation Center provides support (as a production base) for the LGM-35 "Sentinel" intercontinental ballistic missile.

 

[Sferrin]

Clear.

 

[Sferrin]

They should roll this thing into the shop.

 

[Scott Kenny]

I suspect the other way round - 250-350kt has been mooted.

Which is a heck of a lot less than the 475kt of W88s, or whatever the W87 ended up at.

 

[bobbymike]

Which is a heck of a lot less than the 475kt of W88s, or whatever the W87 ended up at.

I can’t find the link thought I posted it under the Nuclear Weapons thread but the next ICBM warhead now known as the Future Strategic Land Based Warhead was supposed to revive the design of the 500-800kt /Calmendro/Munster MX alternative warheads.

 

[Scott Kenny]

I can’t find the link thought I posted it under the Nuclear Weapons thread but the next ICBM warhead now known as the Future Strategic Land Based Warhead was supposed to revive the design of the 500-800kt /Calmendro/Munster MX alternative warheads.

What on earth would demand that big a warhead, given Trident II admitted levels of accuracy?

 

[Sferrin]

What on earth would demand that big a warhead, given Trident II admitted levels of accuracy?

Tehran.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Tehran.

You get more coverage with dropping a large number of RVs in a snowflake-circle instead of a single large warhead.

 

[Sferrin]

You get more coverage with dropping a large number of RVs in a snowflake-circle instead of a single large warhead.

If I have a small number of RVs I'd rather use just one.

 

[jsport]

View: https://youtu.be/GRs1cqF9Qfk

 

[Forest Green]

Which is a heck of a lot less than the 475kt of W88s, or whatever the W87 ended up at.

But it may be near W76 mass.

You get more coverage with dropping a large number of RVs in a snowflake-circle instead of a single large warhead.

Munster was W87 size but 800kt though.