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Is there any anti nuke missile interception tech we have?
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How would it be able to differentiate between a conventional missile and a nuke?
Any defence can be overwhelmed by enough targets.
And if one or two nukes go off its game over.
Infact if one or two nukes went off in western Europe it would be very bad for us all too.
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Irrelevant even if we did, impossible to intercept them all and it only takes a couple, once the nukes start flying it's game over for a large part of humanity.
It is highly unlikely to ever reach the point above even if NATO killed Russians on the battlefield, i guess an incursion into Russia itself would be one red line.
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I just wonder what's out there? I don't believe after all these years no one has come up with some kind of anti nuke interception system. I know if one or two get through it would be catastrophic but you get the rest and your in a hell of a better situation.
It's quite comical that Putin has emulated Hitler's "just lie to them, they won't know how to react" tactic so well. First he ran circles around Merkel over Crimea now he's doing the same to Macron, it's like they're so good at negotiating in good faith they have no way to respond to or deal with somebody who just lies to their face. Maybe this is why Putin waited for Trump to leave office before moving, he didn't want to have to negotiate with somebody who understood the concept of lying xD
There were persistent rumours that Putin had Cancer at the end of 2020 and even that he'd also got Parkinsons. Some said he underwent surgery for his Cancer around then too. It seems a stretch though, surely intelligence agencies would have got wind of it.
There are systems out there. The most obvious being the Patriot missile system, a US system, with various operators throughout the world.
The UK itself dosnt have any capability itself. We use more of a protection by deterrent than any active anti ballistic missile system. However if things were looking to hot up I'm sure the US would probably deploy some systems in country. That said I doubt it would really matter, its never going to stop every nuke.
We do now have Sky Sabre that has the capability to intercept cruise missiles, I'm not sure if it holds any capability to intercept ballistic missiles either intermediate or intercontinental.
I doubt we have enough systems to make any meaningful impact should an all out strike were to happen even if they did have that capability.
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Our type-45s with their Aster 15s and 30s are more than capable of taking down an incoming missile, be that a nuke or conventional. And the upgraded 30s are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles too.
Given an ICBM can carry a dozen or more individual warheads intercepting them all, especially if multiple missiles were launched would be next to impossible. Just one single warhead getting through would kill thousands.
Would be MI6/CIA jurisdiction rather than SAS or Navy SEALS, so my guess no.
As far as I'm aware the type that we have dont have that capability (Type 45's have Aster 30 Block 0), however we are looking at procuring the better versions with much improved range and anti ballistic missile capability (Aster 30 Block 1NT), and from what I've been able to find thats about 5 years off at least.
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Ok so he got the incorrect jurisdiction but his question is valid..and I reckon they must have a plan in place.
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What would taking out Putin solve exactly?
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Unlikely, but they will very likely be on the ground in Ukraine. Likely with some long range anti tank and anti air weapons, the motive would be to make an invasion costly for Russia.
Pretty sure they’d be embedded with SAS/SEAL or delta
Yeah agree absolutely zero.
Yes and no, they did make mincemeat of outdated Iraq's T-72M tanks but they were export spec models which had much weaker armour than the ones the Soviets used themselves. Most of the tanks that will be involved in a Russia v Ukraine conflict will be non-export high spec models in various states of upgrade (some of the tanks have been in production for 40-50 years and so as models are serviced/maintained they will have newer systems/improvements from the current production model retrofitted).
Ukraine actually produced the USSRs best tanks, Russia just handled the export/low tier models.
It's very difficult to compare their tanks as both use many different models in various states of upgrade/update. But a quick comparison guide is that if you're just comparing models that have received the latest available updates/upgrades then A Russian T-14 is better than a Ukrainian T-84, which is better than a Ukrainian/Russian T-80, which is better than a Russian T-90 built in the 1990s, which is better than a Ukrainian T-64, which is better than a Russian T-90 built in the 2000s, which is better than a Russian/Ukrainian T-72.
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