#W88 #warhead of #Trident2 #SLBM in #OhioSubmarines gets new 'brain' !

A key component of the US nuclear deterrent has reached a major milestone.
Sandia National Laboratories and its nuclear security partners recently completed the first production unit of a weapon module responsible for key operations of the improved W88 Alteration 370 warhead, or W88 Alt 370.

The upgraded warhead gets an improved arming mechanism or “brain”.
This endeavor is part of the program to extend its service life.

Viewers may note that W88 is deployed in U.S Navy’s Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile system onboard Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.

As per reports, the first production unit of the W88 Alt 370 was assembled by Kansas City National Security Campus at the end of May. The first fully operable unit was then received the next day at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas.

This followed the completion of the first system-level production unit for the W88 Alt 370 at Pantex in early July.

In this video Defense Updates analyzes how the latest W88 Alt 370 warhead will make Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile more potent?

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[delopez]

The W88 was designed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NOT the "Los Angeles" National Laboratory.

[chuckhooks]

One of these, no doubt, is targeted on the Three Gorges dam.

[Profanus]

The amount of Trident 2 per SSBN has been reduced to 20 per boat due to START treaty. Each D5 carries up to 6 RV‘s. The START treaty is still in effect.

[tayzonday]

I’d like to learn more about how these warheads are validated in a post-test era. Have the physics simulations become more sophisticated since the 1990s?

[Soggy-In-Seattle]

They usually have 4-6 warheads per missile due to START treaty limitations…. per a google search.

[ThatCarGuy]

Best ICBM in the world by far, hope we never have to use it.

[iamnotpaulavery]

It's not called "The Doomsday Sub" for nothing!!

[tlgeorge]

The warhead image shown is a MK12A Reentry Vehicle used currently on the modernized minuteman missile system. That would be Airforce not Navy. It is designed to use the W87 nuclear assembly not the W88. The AF&F would function differently and the high explosives used to operate the primary of the NAS would be a different type compound. These warheads are sister devices that were designed to attack the same type targets though. The delivery missiles are different in range and capabilities. The Airforce ballistic missile program launches from ground based silos inside the United States whereas the Navy launches the Trident missiles from submarines at sea.

[jeffreyexposito]

The nuclear warhead on the D5 is designed to produce an extremely high radiation dosage to cause maximum death so it's truly a doomsday weapon. It's also very accurate and is the only SLBM that posseses first strike capabilities.

[TravelingPrik]

I think Trident II fits 10 W88 warheads and 14 W76 warheads

[hambone]

I believe the narrator meant to say Los ALAMOS National Laboratory, like the text said, not “Angeles.”

[ZevahPaws]

who knew a stupid cone could be capable of this much damage

[XantheFIN]

Hopefully they now upgraded to support proper OBDII so they can use general OBDII code readers.

[thunderkunt]

Waiting till the day one of these lands in Beijing ahaha 😂😂

And entire video without the mention of lethal volume. I am disappoint.

[realSethMeyers]

Dude is just reading Wikipedia pages out loud over a slideshow lol

[Davethreshold]

Fantasy question: Let's say the U.S. had a few of these subs near China, undetected. The U.S. decides to launch everything the subs have ASAP. Would China have time to respond, or would they be flattened? NO. I do not want to see this happen, just curious!😨

[mark-rc]

One submarine could finish one country

[NO-GAMES]

My personal submarine has a squid bladder silent propulsion drive. Beat that.

[ridethecurve]

Needed upgrades, for sure, but has anything been done to upgrade the 14-in floppy disc code-based systems at our static missile silos? Now THAT's scary!