Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in first few hours (2019)

Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by chipsa on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:44PM (#31055938)

Three problems : while you're trying to stream missiles in slowly, the opposition is going to mass launch against your silos, cutting off your stream.

Nukes produce broadband noise. Improved radars let you get much better signal to noise and see through it anyway.

And the warheads you're streaming in need to actually detonate to give noise. Otherwise you just get a debris field.

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Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by schainks on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:30PM (#31057007)

A debris field of sufficient size is also noisy. MIRVs can have a couple decoy warheads whose job it is is to just release debris to create radar noise.

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Re:Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in fir... by chipsa on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:11PM (#31057843)

Theoretically, yes. But that is part of the point of improving the signal processing. And there's 4-5 different radars looking at stuff coming over the pole at Fylingdales, Thule, Clear, Cavalier, possibly at sea, depending.

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