Could Britain Be Defended From Russian Nuclear Ballistic Missiles? (WarGames 46) | DCS

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[MWSin]

Extra bonus: if the Patriot sites are crewed by Americans, it can retain full readiness during Eurovision and even the World Cup.

[slipperyeel]

It’s also very likely that a true attack would also consist of a large number of decoy warheads.

[martinpalmer]

1 SARMAT carries 10-15 Hypersonic Glide Re-entry Vehicles, nasty piece of work

[Alphasig]

Nukes don’t explode when hit. They have to go through nuclear reaction. Which doesn’t occur in an explosion

[billpeterson]

Another thing to remember is that Nukes are programmed to go off while way above ground, to cause the most damage. So the intercept needs to be above a certain altitude or its useless to even fire.

[wagonwheel]

I was a patriot missile operator for 10 years each patriot battalion has 4 battery's a, b, c, d battery's each battery has 8 launchers and each laucher has 4 missiles (pac 2) but the new system is a pac 3 launcher which has 4 canisters and each canister holds 4 missiles so that's 16 missiles per launcher 8 launchers per battery and 4 battery's per battalion and 4 to 5 battalions per brigade

[StudioMedia]

The real answer is no, no matter what a sim shows. Not even the US with its superior defenses and geographic location can defend a full scale attack.

[jameshisself]

Regarding the inadvertent nuke detonation during interception, due to the physical construction of nukes it would be nigh on impossible for it to occur. There will always be those who want to argue this point, but the way the components have to be combined in a highly precise symmetrical 'explosive lens' makes any destruction from the outside of the weapon render this impossible.

[gunner]

Rapier is a close air defence missile, certainly not designed to engage ballistic missiles.

[Joker]

I love this guys enthusiasm! He loves explosions.. my kind of guy

[darrendwyer]

Rapier does not alarm on anything flying over Mach 1. That is because when they were designed there was no aircraft that could drop ordnance above Mach 1. Rapier is an air defence system. If you are flying over Mach 1 then there is no need to engage. It could be effective against a sub sonic cruise missile. Also note there is only one launcher per optical tracker and tracker radar.

[AndrewTubbiolo]

Sarmat would be able to lob a war payload to Britain with its booster stage alone. Likely if the Russians wanted to use a Sarmat against the UK, they'd have to send it into a FROBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) trajectory just to use up the second stage and MIRV bus. Sarmat is made for attacking the US, the the launch vehicle is total overkill for attacking Western Europe.

[joel]

I love how the launch scene is from cold waters

[lordisback]

Actually a sarmat is a 200 ton missile which has 10 mirv and 40 decoys, means 1 missile 50 targets. US defence systems are set to have 27% kill probability against ballistic targets which is pretty good but still it will require 4 missiles for 100% kill probability of 1 target, hence 200 missiles for 50 targets/ 1 sarmat missile. These numbers could get worse as these are machines if some fail it would be too late. Now, UK is not capable of that at all because only 5 countries US, Russia, China, India and Israel have proven Anti satellite and ballistic missile defence. Uk, France, Italy and Iran claim but not proved as these systems are still in testing phase. Truth is no country is fully safe against ballistic missile with hypersonic re-entry vehicle and mirv. But when you have something it's better.

[hantykje]

The UK's best defence is it's four Vanguard submarines. I guess they are not in this game.

[fluff_ruff]

Great work Cap! My dad was Martin Marietta (Littleton, CO) and got to stand in for a laser demonstration that cut an orange in half. From that moment we stopped fearing the citrus 🍊 threat and ruled supreme. 'Merica!

[jollyjohnzz]

I served on rapier in the late 70s, early 80s . My old regiment are currently in Poland with their brand new Sky Sabre system.

[rolandlee]

Yeah, this is basically intercepting SCUDs. We see this in action in Ukraine quite frequently with Russians intercepting Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles. Its the best the game can do, but these are several times slower than actual reentry velocity of ICBM warheads. Also the Sarmat has a higher throw weight than the original Satan.. comes with 10-15 MIRVs and a buttload of countermeasure decoys. Any terminal intercept ABM site would effectively be overwhelmed with a single missile. There is good reason why the US ABM efforts, after leaving the ABM treaty, focus on mid-course interception, not terminal.
Another aspect is that an initial missile might be used to cause a disruptive EMP event with a high altitude detonation, further increasing the odds of the following warheads to penetrate defenses. Anyhow, as it stands - UK doesnt actually have any defense against an ICBM strike.

[EQINOX]

Defending against a nuke strike would be difficult but the thing people do not realize is that is that a nuke does not have to actually hit its target to cause damage or even be close, the US did testing with them long ago to find the optimal detonation height to cause maximum physical damage, but they also tested the optimal height for maximum EMP damage and they found that at the max physical damage height the EMP effects where minimal and blocked by hills and the curvature of the earth, however a single detonation in low earth orbit far above any interception capability would rain down an unimpeded EMP that would blanket cover most or all of a small country. This would effectively shut down a country by instantly tanking out country wide civilian infrastructure, peoples cars / trucks / phones / Computers ETC would also be rendered non functional shutting down communications and more importantly the distribution of food to shops

[mickharrison]

This island once had the biggest empire the world as ever seen 🇬🇧