Great article, but Minuteman ICBMs would not be used to attack North Korea because they'd have to fly over Russia and China to get there.https://twitter.com/danismcnally/status/906168990644539393 …
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then change the range to something huge, e.g. 30,000 km. You'll see that the line "doubles around" the Earth that way.
So you can see that it's around 31,000 km to hit Pyongyang from Minot via South pole route.pic.twitter.com/YIHfDzhr57
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Bingo. Which means the fearmongers' wet dream of a North Korean ICBM using the same route to avoid our early-warning radars is preposterous.
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Also, you can't attack southward w/out actually putting the nukes in orbit, which is illegal under Outer Space Treaty
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But hey, when you're starting WW3 that's only a misdemeanor.
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Yes, but b/c of that legal restriction current Americans/Russian ICBMs are not capable of putting warheads in orbit.
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"MISSILEMAP... giving you quick answers to questions that you wish you didn't want to ask!"
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and of course we never built the lifting-body MIRV bus to skip on atmosphere 3 times to extend range to long-path
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How far can we extend MM3 range by lowering a MIRV payload to single MaRV?
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Minuteman III currently carries a single warhead, either the 335kt W78 (Mk-12A) or the 300kt W87 (Mk-21 SERV).
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W78/Mk-12A mock up at Bradbury Museum, Los Alamos. Human for scale.
#LickTheBombpic.twitter.com/tO9X0t1McE
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FOBs makes a comeback.....
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Sounds like Elon Musk's BFR is FOBS for Space Marines
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