Re: warheads

["Gary Gore" <ggore@mail.transdata.ca>]

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> From: Bill Garmer <bgarmer@tsc.net>
> To: Mailinglist 'MP' <MP@nostromo.gate.net>
> Subject: Re: warheads
> Date: Monday, April 14, 1997 12:32 PM
> 
> At 07:47 PM 4/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >----------
> >> From: Walter M. Rauch <walt@digital.net>
> >> To: mp@nostromo.gate.net
> >> Subject: warheads
> >> Date: Sunday, April 13, 1997 2:28 PM
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 	The warhead distribution patterns used in the MP book seem to be
based
> >on
> >> the old fashioned multiple warhead technology, that put all the bombs
on
> >> the same general target.  Modern MIRVs are completly independent. 
Each
> >> warhead can find a different target, within a large footprint.  If the
> >> missile un-busses at burnout, which is only about two to four minutes
> >into
> >> flight, each fully steerable warhead can diverge, and hit multiple
> >targets
> >> separated by hundreds, even a thousand miles.  The Trident D-5 missile
> >can
> >> do this, 20 or so missiles per sub, ten warheads per missile, and we
have
> >a
> >> dozen of the Ohio class to throw them. This is why the Ohio/Trident
> >program
> >> worked as a deterrent. There was no way the soviets could stop a
massive
> >> counterattack.  Also, those same missiles could target very accuratly,
> >> killing unfired silos, headquarters, and other hardened targets. 
There
> >was
> >> no escape from retaliation.
> >> 	Now look at that MP book's target list.  Now have the majority of
those
> >> warheads come down independently.  Now have them airburst, for soft
> >> targets.  Wipeout.  Only hardened targets (silos, bunkers) ger surface
> >> bursts, and they could be sub-surface bursts.  
> >> 
> >> 	Comments?
> >
> >Good points raised, but I'm not sure to  how this might apply to CEP. 
> >Since the Russian MIRVs may only be Multiply Impact Reentry Vehicles.
> >
> >CEP Circular Error Probable.
> >
> >The delivery precision of a weapon system, normally measured in nautical
> >miles or kilometers.  It is the radius of a circule, centered upon the
mean
> >point of impact, within which 50 percent of the missiles aimed at the
> >target will fall.  The mean point of impact will almost always be offset
> >from the center of the target by the bias (qv).  The CEP is normally
> >assessed at the missile's maximum range; at less than the maximum range
the
> >CEP reduces in proportion, ie:
> >
> >CEP range x = CEP maximum range x   Range x
> >                                                          
> >-----------------
> >                                                           Maximum range
> >
> 
> Gary - where did you find this?
> 
> Bill

>From a book and the course's I've taken over the years.  I checked my data
before I sent it out over the list.  All that data is published in a few
books, so its not secret. :)

Why?

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