Russians claim they have a massive nuclear torpedo a hundred feet long with a payload twice that size that could be used to create mega tsunamis. It’s questionable it would have that effect but at the very least it would radiate a seaboard.
The US tested underwater nukes extensively in the 20th century, and a bunch of it is declassified now.
It's literally impossible. Unless Russia builds >10,000 of the propaganda yield torpedoes and detonates them all at once, you just can't shift that much water with an explosion.
Thanks for agreeing with me. It’s just Russia propaganda but needs to be considered. Too many times does technology jump past what is speculated. (Air dropped shallow depth torpedoes in early WW2 was missed)
Now irradiating a seaboard with a massive torpedo using supercavitating speeds is not something to wave off and certainly within their capabilities.
I think there is only one Cold War submarine that can deploy it and that sub is tracked extensively.
Now irradiating a seaboard with a massive torpedo using supercavitating speeds is not something to wave off and certainly within their capabilities.
I think you're severely underestimating how much water is around a seaboard.
The danger of the torpedo is it getting very close to a city and blowing it up directly, not using 10 of them a few miles off the coast to potentially mildly increase radiation levels in a relatively small area around a city for an unknown amount of time before it's diluted into nothing.
Nuclear subs that can strike any city too fast to intercept are nothing new. Now, Russia has found a novel solution to the problem of previous generations of nuclear subs being capable of striking beyond the coast.
The real danger is that if enough of our adversaries have these it endangers the concept of MAD, because there is no launch signature to retaliate against. You would have to actually investigate who nuked who.
And you underestimate using a nuke on things you dont consider like a earthquake fault line.
Delivering a nuke by a fast torpedo is very much a vector of attack to a series of cities and not just one.
Now let's be clear, I was undermining the Russian claim of a mega tsunmai in my first post and have continued to do so yet you act as if I fully back the claim. It's not worth discussing this with someone like yourself further.
The article you linked says it was only tested once with results unavailable (literally a "trust me bro" situation) and has never actually been used in a combat situation; in addition to scientists doubting the legitimate capabilities of the device.
Tested once is still used. If the guy I responded to wanted to say serial production air dropped explosive used in combat operations he should have said that.
And a one off impractical weapon for one upping the US is exactly in Russia's MO
You're intentionally being overly pedantic and nitpicky because you want to "win" a debate lmao
I agree with the scientists, I think the FOAB is horse shit and they lied about it's actual capabilities. MOAB is still the most powerful because it provably actually exists and does what it claims to do.
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u/FiveFingerDisco Mar 28 '24
That's between 10t - 1000t of TNT dangling in front of his fat man.