No more MBT’s for Canada

[geoschmo]

Actually an electric/diesel sub running on batteries is quieter then a nuclear sub. The main noise producer at that point is cavitation from the blades. That varies depending on the blade design, but is better for all blades at slow speeds. One of the big spy scandels at one point was when they "accquired" some of our blade design tech.

The Soviets at their height had some very good subs. Some were quieter then our best subs, but we had much better detection tech so for the most part we were still able to keep track of them. They had a different doctrine though, prefering to keep their subs close to home. For that the diesel/electric sub's shorter range isn't as much of a weakness compared to nuclear powered.

[deccan]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
Although, there are plans to convert several boomers into dedicated tomahawk/special ops platforms but the rest would keep their Trident II missiles with MIRV warheads in case we have an urge to blow up the world a few times over... pick 192 of your least favorite cities and there you go... per sub.

If the different warheads share the same missile, what is the maximum range that each warhead can stray apart?

And I thought this thread was about MBTs?

[Cyrien]

Hrmm... I actually did abit of research on this awhile back (a year ago I think) and each Trident II missile has a range of 4000+ miles from the sub. Each warhead from the missile I think has a dispersal range of 500 or 800 miles. (not sure and too late to look it up, maybe in the morning)
So you can cover a nice bit of territory with a single sub.

Ahhh the wonderful power of off-topic.

[ November 01, 2003, 02:08: Message edited by: Cyrien ]

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
Hrmm... I actually did abit of research on this awhile back (a year ago I think) and each Trident II missile has a range of 4000+ miles from the sub. Each warhead from the missile I think has a dispersal range of 500 or 800 miles. (not sure and too late to look it up, maybe in the morning)
So you can cover a nice bit of territory with a single sub.

Ahhh the wonderful power of off-topic.

D5 range has never been stated. Only that it was greater than 4000 miles.