Strategic nuclear power is one of the symbols of the strength of a big country. With a strong strategic nuclear arsenal, it can basically ensure that no country dares to launch a full-scale invasion on itself, because a sufficient number of nuclear weapons can smooth out all military power gaps, and can also instantly erase the enemy's main cities and directly change the world map. intercontinental ballistic missile is the pillar of defending national peace. Although Russia is currently in financial difficulties and its military expenditure has shrunk to less than 50 billion US dollars, Russia still insists on arranging a sufficient budget for intercontinental ballistic missiles, saving money, tightening its belt, and also building missile .
According to Global Network , the latest number of U.S. and Russia nuclear warhead has been exposed. On May 24, Russia released the latest nuclear arsenal data from Russia and the United States. These data are real and reliable and are confirmed by Russia and the United States under the framework of the " Strategic Weapon Reduction Treaty ". As of March 1, 2021, the total number of strategic nuclear warheads in the United States was deployed was 1,357, while Russia had 1,456.
Many people will have questions when they see this news. In the past, domestic media often saw how powerful Russia’s strategic nuclear power is. The nuclear warhead can destroy the United States 20 times and the world 10 times. There are many statements about the number of Russian nuclear warheads, some say more than 10,000, and some say six or seven thousand. Why is the number of nuclear warheads announced this time so small? In fact, the statement that Russia has more than 10,000 nuclear bombs is nonsense, and Russia does not have so many nuclear warheads at all.
The nuclear arsenal in the Soviet Union was extremely large. At its peak, the number of nuclear warheads could reach more than 27,000, and by the time of its disintegration there were about 16,000. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Russia inherited about 70% of the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. However, due to the tight economic and fiscal constraints, Russia has successively dismantled more than 10,000 nuclear warheads and sold nuclear fuel to the outside world, which has caused a plummeting price in the international market of enriched uranium .
In the early 1990s, Russia's nuclear arsenal was still very large. For example, 459 launch silos of land-based intercontinental missiles were deployed, with a total of 3,530 nuclear warheads. Due to unfavorable economic development and financial difficulties, Russia has gradually cut many nuclear warheads, and the scale of its nuclear arsenal has been shrinking again and again. Around 2000, the size of Russia's nuclear arsenal was once smaller than that of the United States.
However, Russia has greatly strengthened the construction of its nuclear arsenal in the past decade. By 2014, Russia's number of nuclear warheads exceeded that of the United States for the first time, and a total of 1,643 nuclear warheads were deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and heavy bombers.
In fact, the number of nuclear bombs in the United States is not large, and it is showing a slow decline. The number of nuclear warheads deployed by the United States in 2014 was 1,642. By February 2018, when the " New Strategic Weapon Reduction Treaty" (START) was completed, the number of nuclear warheads in the United States had been reduced to 1,550.
Russia announced the latest number of nuclear warheads between Russia and the United States on May 24th. It is the first time that the scale of nuclear warheads between the two countries has been made public after the United States and Russia announced in February this year that it would extend the "New Strategic Weapons Treaty on Reduction of Offensive Strategic Weapons" by five years. Russian experts pointed out that more than half of Russia and the United States’ strategic nuclear warheads are carried by submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles carried by the strategic nuclear submarine .
According to the latest data released by the Russian side, Russia added 9 nuclear warheads in half a year, while the United States reduced 100. Russia and the United States also have some nuclear warheads in a sealed state. Since these nuclear warheads are not combat-deployed and do not have nuclear triggers and fuses, they are actually no different from nuclear raw materials and cannot be regarded as weapons. You need to enter a nuclear factory and restore it to use before you can become a nuclear weapon.
According to the latest statistics, in terms of strategic nuclear missiles and nuclear weapons launch platforms, Russia has deployed 517 land-based, sea-based and air-based long-range intercontinental missiles, while the United States has 651. Russia has 767 long-range intercontinental missile launch vehicles deployed and undeployed, while the United States has 800.
According to the provisions of the New Strategic Weapon Reduction Treaty (START), the calculation method of bomber of Russia and the United States is that a strategic bomber is calculated to carry a nuclear warhead.For example, the United States currently has 440 Militia III land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, 240 Trident D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and 85 strategic nuclear bombers.
Since Russia has only 1,456 nuclear warheads in active deployment, the theoretical number of nuclear warheads on vehicles and launch platforms is far greater than the number of existing deployed nuclear warheads. Therefore, all strategic nuclear missiles on duty in Russia do not load the nuclear warheads, but adopt a very flexible warhead setup, which can use different warhead types and payloads for different targets in the United States, Europe and other countries. In fact, the United States, Britain and France and other countries do this. For example, the submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles on strategic nuclear submarines are not loaded with nuclear warheads. The remaining warhead space of the nuclear missile that is not fully loaded can carry dozens or even hundreds of bait warheads. This is a metal-coated balloon bait. A nuclear missile can carry a large number of bait balloon fake warheads. When the missile takes off outside the atmosphere, it is released and inflatrated, and follows the real warhead to fly along the ballistic to the reentry point, and burns when it reenteres the atmosphere. These fake target baits can greatly increase the pressure of the opponent's anti-missile system radar multi-target detection, thereby causing chaos and blockage of fire channels.
Although the number of nuclear warheads in the United States is showing a slow downward trend, this does not mean that the United States has reduced its nuclear deterrence, and on the contrary, the United States is actively promoting the expansion of its nuclear arsenal. In September last year, the United States approved a plan to invest about $190 billion in the world's largest new generation nuclear weapon system, including a new generation of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and a new generation of submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile systems, and also upgrades the old and stronger militia III intercontinental missiles.
Nuclear weapons and maintaining nuclear arsenal are really expensive, so expensive that they have no friends, beyond your imagination. An intercontinental ballistic missile with 10 sub-guided nuclear warheads costs about 20 to 30 billion yuan, and the nuclear warhead of this missile needs regular maintenance, which is also a sky-high price. As the direct military competitor of the United States, Russia is most threatened by the US anti-missile system, fearing that its nuclear strike force will be weakened to the extent that the United States can disintegrate. Therefore, Russia has continuously developed powerful penetration weapons over the years, including the new strategic missile nuclear submarine , Yars intercontinental ballistic missile , hypersonic weapons, and Poseidon nuclear torpedo and other strategic deterrent equipment. In addition, Russia's conventional military strength is insufficient and it has the mentality of using nuclear weapons to shock the West. Therefore, Russia is so poor that it cannot be exaggerated and must try its best to maintain a huge nuclear arsenal.
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