Russia has put its submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile into service, a significant step in modernizing its nuclear arsenal, in what could be used to escala

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So. Maybe they forgot to admit the old missiles couldn’t….anymore.

    That’s why this is a thing?

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    7 months ago

    Will they have the misfire rate that their missles in Ukraine are having? Which depending on a source that isn’t russian says 20-60%.

    This isn’t the type of weapon that you want to get out of the tube, 80% of the way to target and it go “Ooopsie! I forgot how to missle”, then fall out of the sky. (Not that firing a nuke wouldn’t be a bad time for everyone on the fucking planet in the first place)