Current Nuclear Weapons Development

NMaude said:
Possibly replacements as the missiles rocket-motors do have a shelf-life.
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It is part of a fleet sustainment buy. Mostly to replace missile units that are fired for test or certification purposes. There is some age out, although that is only starting to be an issue. Judicious testing, along with replenishment, is keeping the population age within limits.
 
Calphor said:
There is some age out, although that is only starting to be an issue.
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I suspect those ageing out rocket-motors are going back to the US to be reused in missile targets for various ABM tests.
 
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bobbymike said:
Probably a very close relative of the W88.
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That's old news, the Wen Ho Lee scandal was way back in 1998.
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Somebody asked about modern Chinese warheads I speculated it probably resembles a W88. Probably took some time for them to reverse engineer and build.

My comment wasn’t related to when they stole the technology but rather it’s probably in their next generation of warheads.
 
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From the Wiki page - a thousand warheads of that single type produced in seven years 1984-90 at the same time hundreds of W87s W88s and other warhead types, incredible.
 
bobbymike said:
From the Wiki page - a thousand warheads of that single type produced in seven years 1984-90 at the same time hundreds of W87s W88s and other warhead types, incredible.
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Rookie numbers. 2,500+ W31s produced just for the Nike Hercules force at the same time they were kicking out 25 MT W41s and nukes for every other missile in the inventory. :D
 
If China was stupid enough to get into a nuclear exchange with the US it would get squashed like a stepped on bug.
 
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is the only thing keeping them at bay.
think of it like two men with howitzers pointed at each other point blank itching to fire at the twitch of a finger.
a political/physical standoff if you will.
(feel free to correct me)
At this current point in time its an unspoken arms race to have the largest Nuclear weapons arsenal. the real question is this.... who will make the fatal mistake of using one?
 
bobbymike said:
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/l...gsc-boss/?mc_cid=e20197e4da&mc_eid=307947a252
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sferrin said:
bobbymike said:
From the Wiki page - a thousand warheads of that single type produced in seven years 1984-90 at the same time hundreds of W87s W88s and other warhead types, incredible.
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Rookie numbers. 2,500+ W31s produced just for the Nike Hercules force at the same time they were kicking out 25 MT W41s and nukes for every other missile in the inventory. :D
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Sort of irrelevant. The U.S. has no capability to produce any new nuclear warheads, not entirely unlike Russia.

PRC and France have the most developed and complete nuclear industrial complexes nowadays.
 
Kat Tsun said:
sferrin said:
bobbymike said:
From the Wiki page - a thousand warheads of that single type produced in seven years 1984-90 at the same time hundreds of W87s W88s and other warhead types, incredible.
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Rookie numbers. 2,500+ W31s produced just for the Nike Hercules force at the same time they were kicking out 25 MT W41s and nukes for every other missile in the inventory. :D
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Sort of irrelevant. The U.S. has no capability to produce any new nuclear warheads, not entirely unlike Russia.

PRC and France have the most developed and complete nuclear industrial complexes nowadays.
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Don’t think those comments were trying to be relevant to today’s nuclear enterprise which we’re all aware isn’t even a shadow of itself more like a whisper in a wind storm (to wax poetic) but rather just a historical reminder of what once was…
 

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