Jimgoespewpew
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Enlighten me.
If Russia acts a fool. When to leave the DMV?
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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
~ Chief Tecumseh
Imagine, for a brief moment, the value per ruble you would get, if you convinced folk on the internet that you actually HAVE a "doomsday device", when you really DON'T. He doesn't have that, and you are a little foolish in thinking he does, honestly.
No point in using up a nuke, as well as increasing the nuclear winter.
Some researchers modeled what a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would look like. The assumption was Pakistan would use most of their nukes leaving only a couple dozen in reserve. India would use about half of theirs (they have about 2x as many as Pakistan anyway) to keep in reserve because of China.
The estimate is on the order of 700 million dead in that initial exchange (and within a couple of days). The amount of crap kicked up in to the atmosphere, and MOST of it would be from the massive fires caused (huge cities being incinerated and then burning, forest fires started, etc.) would likely result in global temperatures within months dropping between 8 and 10 degrees F. It would take approximately 4-6 years for temperatures to begin recovering and might take 10 years to fully recover. This would likely result in a billion people starving to death due to crop failures between reduced temperatures and the fact that global light levels would drop something like 10-20%, reducing the growth rate of plants further.
US/Russia with a similar "limited" nuclear exchange is thought to kill fewer people. Though more than likely if Russia were to strike the US, they would almost certainly hit major NATO bases and some of the NATO member capitols and C&C centers too. Anyway, US/Russia is estimated to only be around 150 million immediately because of the much lower population of both countries and that a lot of the strategic targets aren't too close to major cities (yes, SOME are, like Moscow and DC. But NYC has no major C&C centers or military bases near it). If all of NATO gets added in, it likely increases it to around 400 million because of targets in Europe and the much higher population densities near major targets there.
The nuclear winter effect would likely be of a similar scale.
This is JUST for the envisioned "gut each others nuclear forces, major C&C, sub bases, strategic air force bases).
A blanket approach of use up everything and just glass each other would like result in about 400 million dying between US and Russia, make it about 800-900 million if that included NATO (which it would). However, the nuclear winter resulting would probably reduce global light levels by 30-50% and drop surface temperatures by 20-25F over a couple of years and would likely take 10-15 years to recover fully. In that time probably 4-6 billion people would starve to death, on top of the nearly billion who died immediately.
Yeah, probably only a few hundred million would survive.
None of that includes the resulting secondary wars that might start when other countries realize most of their populaces are going to die, so that they try to get what resources they can from everyone else. Even in the limited nuclear war case, that might add tens to hundreds of millions dead.
On Russia, that is assuming it would work. As many subs as they have had sunk, and as many cruise missiles and ballistic missiles as they have that seem to be misfiring, going off target, etc....
I wouldn't put it past them to have a solid 50%+ failure rate on an automated nuclear torpedo. And their "around the world" range nuclear powered, nuclear torpedo appears to be as much myth as their nuclear powered hypersonic cruise missile that blew up on the test stand a year or two ago killing dozens.
Russia's current "hypersonic" cruise missiles, are their SRBM launched from an airplane. Possibly in theory it can evasively maneuver. However, there is no evidence that it does. So it makes it a somewhat hard target to hit because of its speed, but not particularly worse than the SRBM version...just that it has a somewhat long range and slightly higher speed because it is getting launched potentially at 30-40k ft and maybe ~mach 1 rather than 0ft and 0mph. (Kinzhal missile, which is just an air launched Iskander). The pinpoint precision of them appears...overbilled. As does the velocity (a claimed "up to Mach 12", but appears to only hit around Mach 10...if launched from a Foxbat already booking ~Mach 3 at the time of launch). It is difficult to intercept, and does carry decoys in some versions (PS Ukraine has captured several fairly Kinzhal missiles including their decoys and almost certainly shared with US/NATO intelligence).
Several Kinzhal missiles have been reported confirmed intercepted by Ukrainian air defense. In addition, they ALSO seem to have around a 50% failure rate, straight up. The ones that don't fail appear to only have a CEP of around 30 meters, not the claimed 3 meters.
Amen. Thanks for posting this joppaj
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
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Go up the bay through the C&D canal and out through Delaware bay.
DMV was derived from the gogo days to refer to the DC, MD, VA immediate area. It extends from Fredericksburg, VA in the South, to Columbia, MD in the North, and from the Chesapeake Bay to roughly Manassas.
Two completely different things, given that the DMV as defined from the gogo days, is a much larger area than the MDW.
It's actually old slang from the gogo days.
Boondock Saint
Ultimate Member
Outstanding. Thanks for posting that.
Like so many great quotes, I wish we knew for 100% certainty that it was actually the person we attribute it to. That said, even if it wasn't Tecumseh, it's a great "poem".
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
- 22,287
Now what if the strike turns out to be composed of all high altitude detonations to blanket the country in multiple EMP events that destroy the electrical grid and most of the electronics without doing much physical damage. Everything is still here but nothing works. The Russian and Chinese peasants who are sent to recolonize the territory after we all starve to death don't need nor will they miss what they never had.
Sigh. EMP will generally not destroy electronics. It will do a number on the grid. But electronics will, for the most part, be fine.
China only survives by modern farming. And many, even peasants, have a level of technology and “niceties” unheard of 59 years ago. They for sure don’t have an urban standard of living. But it isn’t some pack wars peasant living in a hut next to their rice pattie for 95% of peasants and hasn’t been in decades.
Alan3413
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- Mar 4, 2013
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I agree with you 100% old friend =)
Well, I do.
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