Sunday, September 25, 2022

TACTICAL

 I think we will start with air bursts. I don't think the fireball will touch the ground.

5 comments:

Matthew W said...

They will be "airbursts". They will do far more damage unless you need to wipeout a buried/hardened structure.
From day one I said nukes were off the table because there has to be several insiders around Putin that will "put one in his ear" before doing a nuke strike. I know Russians are crazy, but there has to be a few sane ones left.....

FeralFerret said...

One can certainly hope you are right, but sanity is becoming a rare commodity.

Dan said...

An air burst it typically at the 5000 foot above ground level. The actual fireball of the blast would probably touch the ground. But it won't matter. Virtually all the physical damage is done by the shock wave/overpressure and the sunlike temperatures that will incinerate anything within a few miles of epicenter. The only "upside" to an airburst....if you can call it that... is that less dirt and other material are tossed up in the air, made radioactive and then sent off to drift on the wind. Ground bursts limit damage to a smaller radius but produce a helluva lot more airborne fallout.

Matthew W said...

Yup.
I was tooling around the intertubes some time ago looking into as to what a nuke would do near me. I found this and it's interesting:
https://nukemap.org/nukemap/

HMS Defiant said...

Nukes are always on the table. That is why they still exist.
You know the scary thing? I don't know any democrats who would hesitate for one second to nuke a republican stronghold.