5 ICBMs That Could End the World

As the war in Ukraine keeps on raising tensions between two nuclear powers, it is a possibility that we can wake up to the world of Mad Max and start collecting soda caps for currency like in the Fall Out series.

These five bad boys could turn the world into a real-life version of 'Thanos' snap, so hold onto your seats!

The Trident D5, also known as the Trident II, is a ballistic missile launched from a submarine. The United States and the United Kingdom have deployed these missiles.

RS-24 YARS (SS-29 NATO name) was developed both as a road-mobile and silo-based system, that would use the same missile as RS-12M Topol-M. Yars is planned to become the mainstay of the ground-based component of Russian nuclear force.

The Minuteman III is a silo-based missile. With the removal of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, the Minuteman III has become the only US land-based ICBM in service. It was the first MIRV capable missile.

Being the most powerful ICBM in China’s inventory Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) carries up to 10 Multiple Independently-targetable reentry vehicles.

RS-28 SARMAT is a very capable missile, mainly because of its high speed and extremely high throw weight. Sarmat is capable of carrying hypersonic glide vehicles along with other types of warheads.

If you want to learn about the nuclear winter, please check out our “Imagine That” series video, where we draw a good picture of life after a planet-wide nuclear apocalypse.

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[preppertrucker]

Poseidon….. even though it’s considered a torpedo….. 100mt of nuclear tsunami terror….💀💀☢️☢️

[samuelmakhetha]

RS-28 Sarmat carries 12-15 nuclear warheads and can strike anywhere in the world.

[orbitoncena.vblinkmidzy]

You know what’s more scarier? It would be “leaders that could end the world”

[abbasnguma]

Damn crazy world, these ICBMs can crumble the world so many times before we even know they are coming.

[gambu]

I'm afraid of the Sarmat Satan 2 Armageddon weapon 🥺

[EpicThe]

Where are the North Korean and Indian ICBMs here. For the Chinese ICBMs these use a Beidou GPS Russians Glonass

[endcapitalism]

The warheads are ejected just after the boost phase, not after the midcourse phase. This is very important, as it makes the ICBM immune to antiballistic missile defense, which is a midcourse defense.

[calsonyap]

As a boomer generation, I love the Soviet SS20 ICBM with 10 independent reentry warheads

[kaboomabkari]

Love how your editor played with volumes 😍

[anonihme]

MT on the sarmat stands for mega ton, not metric ton

[garfield]

What about KH-17 from North Korea range 15.000km MERV capable 10 pcs 100-200Kt, or 1 warhead 10Mt or hypersonic glide vehicle 20mach + speed?!

[surojeetchatterjee]

U Forgot about Indian Agni 5 with MIRV When ur counting ICBM below 8000KM Range.

[charlesc.]

Great do it. The Earth experiment is si disfunctional might as well shut it down.

[bulgingbattery]

Russia has a heavy ICBM that can launch a single 50-100 megaton warhead.

[SJR_Media_Group]

*_Little Boy and Fat Man yielded 15-20 kt. Today's ICBM's have 10 at 300 kt - 1 mt._*

A single ICBM carrying up to 10 individual warheads with yields 20 - 100 times more powerful can be the start of a very bad nightmare. With the SALT limits, each side might have only 5, 000 city destroying nuclear bombs. That's sufficient to hit every major city several times. Next time you visit NYC - be sure to wear your white hazard suit.

*_If we are all going to die anyway, I'd rather be at ground zero and be vaporized._*

[vigoedwinpandika]

RS 28 Sarmat, DongFeng 41, and LGM 30G Minuteman are my favorite ICBMs

[markwilliams]

So Sarmat has a yield of one metric ton (according to narration) ? Give me a dinner of sprouts and a lighter and I'm sure I can beat that.

[Jncta]

u forgot to mention the US RS30 & 32 😅

[kingoftheworld]

all good things must come to an end. people in us have heard of this saying but really have no clue what it means 😂