king of all bombs ?

qgbnorman · Post by **qgbnorman** » May 14 2008

the Tsar Bomba , with a blast yield of 50mt is the largest bomb ever tested , tested in 1961 by the USSR.
by contrast the Trident II (D5) UGM-133A can only cary 8 w88 warheads with a yield of 475kt each max yield of Trident II is 3.8mt .

50,000kt bomb : fireball 4.6km fire ball not blast radius
w88 warhead 475kt : fireball .7km est

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_missile

ainsworth74 · Post by **ainsworth74** » May 15 2008

Forgive me for sounding rude, but what is your point?

SGTscuba · Post by **SGTscuba** » May 15 2008

Yea i heard it was the biggest bomb but it was a prototype for a 100mt bomb. I know the flash and sound was the greatest every created by man and the flash could be seen in moscow. I wonder if it could make it into 2020? Na i doubt it - it was only a prototype and they found out just after it was dropped that a lot smaller bombs would do it better. This would lead to MIRV's that we know today.

Feltan · Post by **Feltan** » May 15 2008

The USSR was fond of big nukes. In large part, because their missles were thought to be somewhat inaccurate and the larger payload was to compensate.

From a modelling point of view -- little difference. A smaller (though big in it's own right) explosion on target, or a bigger explosion a few hundred/thousand meters off target has the same affect.

For the most part, you really only need to differentiate nukes by their delivery system for a game on SR2010/20 scale.

Regards,
Feltan

Post by **Balthagor** » May 15 2008

This has been discussed before;

http://www.bgforums.com/forums/viewtopi ... light=tsar

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orwell · Post by **orwell** » May 17 2008

Will 2020 have a MOAB or a Grand Slam equivalent, or for our massive bombing needs will we have nuclear options only?

Post by **Balthagor** » May 18 2008

At release I don't expect we'll have the MOAB in, there are some balance concerns we won't have time to look at for this sort of unit.

Either in an update or I expect someone will mod it in...

SGTscuba · Post by **SGTscuba** » May 19 2008

For those who dont know what MOAB is here is a good link:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... s/moab.htm

Mother Of All Bombs?