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.