Rare submarine visit reminds North Korea of U.S. nuclear missiles out of sight, in range (www.reuters.com)

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[-] platysalty@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

An Ohio-class submarine carries 20 Trident II D5 missiles, each of which can deliver up to eight nuclear warheads to targets as far as 12,000 km (7,500 miles) away.

Let me get this straight. Do these missiles split into 8 individual warheads that can hit individual targets? Or do they just pack 8 warheads together for bigger boom? Or is it more of a cluster bomb kind of deal?

On one hand, cool. On the other, especially considering what's hot in the movies recently, bloody hell that's a bit too many bombs, isn't it?

[-] AWildMimicAppears@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Trident II missiles are MIRV-capable, so 8 warheads per missile, which can hit targets a few hundred kilometers apart (exact numbers are not available for the public)

[-] Lem453@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

They split up and can hit different targets. It also makes anti missile air defense harder

[-] fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Multiple independent warheads that can hit different targets. Also, they can actually carry up 12 warheads each , but the US limits the number deployed to meet treaty obligations. And each boat can has 20 missile tubes.

It's a lot of Armageddon in a small space.

[+] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -66 points 1 year ago

Wow. I know Reuters is state-affiliated media, but the barbarism and cultural fetishizing of brutal mass murder and environmental devastation is just disgusting. These people are sick. When will the European hordes learn that this sort of behavior is uncivilized and hurts them more than it hurts anyone else. I guess they'll just have to fuck around and find out.

[-] baru@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

I know Reuters is state-affiliated media

Jeez, even the first thing you say can easily be checked. Please check if what you think is true is actually true.

Reuters partly does their own research/reporting, partly it just redistributes reports from other media.

That's completely different than your first claim.

barbarism and cultural fetishizing of brutal mass murder

This doesn't make any sense. Are you from Russia? How does anything in your comment make sense? It feels like random words and sentences.

[+] appel@whiskers.bim.boats -12 points 1 year ago

I think the first line may have been in jest, regardless, the rest of the points are valid I believe. They are exclaiming in horror at the attitide conveyed by the article, that showing off with these subs and terrorizing NK with them is good and we should be proud of it. I also see this as pretty barbaric behaviour. That sub has enough nukes on it to probably turn to glass every population centre in NK. Isn't that terrifying?

NK poses no real harm, they are desperately trying to catch up with their military, probably because they are surrounded by American weapons. The only thing that NK has been taught by the international community is that you have to have nukes and be a bully to be successful. Following the example of the US. I'm not sure whether or not that poster is from Russia has much to do with what they wrote, and for the record, I found it perfectly legible.

[-] torphexi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

„NK poses no real harm“ the people suffering under a brutal militaristic dictatorship. Starving and possibly worked to their death if they disagree even slightly with the state or dare to question their leader might disagree.

[-] appel@whiskers.bim.boats -2 points 1 year ago

I did neglect to mention I meant external harm. But I wonder does surrounding them with guns and nukes make their state more likely to demilitarize? I feel like it does not.

[-] torphexi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I mean they are also increasingly posing a threat to external entities, didn’t a recent missile test fly over Japan? But in general I do not think NK is a positive influence on the world, much less once they can build and deploy nuclear weapons. In any case the original article really isn’t news as the us has the ability to strike basically anywhere on the planet with nuclear weapons. But I do agree that it won’t have a demilitarizing effect, however I doubt anything could have.

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Pyongyang is probably safe but port cities like Chongjin or Nampo will be the first to be smashed to bits if/when the west decides to go that route.

[+] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -12 points 1 year ago

The West already devastated the entire country completely unprovoked. 30,000 tons of napalm. 600,000 tons of bombs (more than the US dropped in the Pacific Theater during ALL of WW2). Destroyed every single city and town. Destroyed 85% of their buildings. North Korea is the third most bombed country in the history of the world.

The US is a bloodthirsty death cult.

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

unprovoked? North Korea invaded South Korea.

[-] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 year ago

And they were right to. I'd be damned if some foreign country tried to set up a fascist client state in my homeland, especially one that was made up predominantly of the imperial overlords that were just thrown out.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: got my threads mixed up. Yes, North Korea was in the right here.

[-] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wholeheartedly agree? I was referring to how the South Korean government was predominantly made up of Japanese imperial collaborators in its early years.