What are the types of existing nuclear weapons ? What are the consequences when used in combat?
Recently, more and more politicians and military experts have mentioned the use of weapons of mass destruction. RT Russia Today will explain to you in this article what types of existing nuclear weapons are and the consequences of their use in combat.
Fuji-МBatriot missile combat training launch.
nuclear weapons are weapons that use penetrating radiation, explosion waves, and optical radiation as destructive power, and the sequelae is nuclear radiation disease. nuclear strike against will trigger devastating shock waves and thermal radiation from ashes.
Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
But there is still a conceptual problem. When nuclear weapons appear, humans only regard them as extremely powerful weapons, and many people still hold this view. However, as time goes by, both civilians and military gradually understand that it is very dangerous and difficult to use nuclear weapons on the battlefield. Therefore, today's nuclear weapons still exist only as a deterrent.
Brava intercontinental ballistic missile test.
nuclear weapons can be divided into two types according to their power and purpose: strategic nuclear weapons and tactical nuclear weapons .
"Peony Flower" self-propelled cannon.
tactical nuclear weapons are used in the front line and near the rear, as well as destroying live forces and military equipment in the air or at sea. This type of nuclear weapons has a small range of killing, mainly for shells, land-based and carrier-based missile systems, and anti-missile systems, or in the form of Navy mines and submarine torpedoes.
"Hydney" self-propelled howitzer fired at the Ukrainian positions.
Tactical nuclear weapons are not powerful enough to destroy a city. Its main task is to achieve maximum combat effectiveness with small ammunition. However, a tactical nuclear bomb explodes equal to the power of hundreds of conventional missiles .
Msta self-propelled howitzer.
For example, Russian launch systems that can carry small tactical nuclear warheads include: the "Iskander-M" tactical missile system and the "caliber" cruise missile, Su-34, Il-38 and Tu-142 fighters, Tu-22M3, Tu-160, Tu-95 supersonic bombers, and the "Msta" and "Hydrange" self-propelled howitzers, 2S7 "Peony" self-propelled artillery and their improved 2S7M "Peony" and 2S4 "Tulip" self-propelled mortars.
Text-22M3 supersonic bomber.
As the name suggests, compared with strategic missiles with a power of one million tons and can burn all lives in the area as big as New York, the explosion range of tactical nuclear weapons is about 1-1.5 square kilometers, and it will not cause long-term radioactive pollution of . Therefore, one week after the explosion, the territory can resume operation.
Figure-142 Anti-submarine fighter.
Strategic nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons used to fight enemy strategic targets including large and medium-sized cities, transportation hubs, railway and highway networks, etc.
Il-38 medium-range anti-submarine fighter.
Strategic nuclear weapons are used to cause large-scale strikes on enemy military, administrative, industrial and scientific centers. This type of nuclear weapons warhead equipment is intercontinental ballistic missile and medium-range missile respectively.
Iskander-M missile system.
Russia's strategic nuclear weapons are mainly composed of land-based intercontinental ballistic missile "troop commander" (called "Satan" by the West), "pioneer", "Popular-М", "Yars", "Sarmat" and submarine-launched ballistic missile "blue", " Brava ". Tu-160 (called "White Swan" by the Russians) and Tu-95 "Bear" strategic bombers can load strategic nuclear warheads.
According to the delivery method of ammunition, the range of tactical nuclear weapons is between 500 kilometers and 8,000 kilometers, while the maximum range of strategic nuclear weapons can reach 18,000 kilometers. There are also battle tactical nuclear weapons between
and strategic weapons , which are used to strike important targets such as control centers and missile range.
(all pictures are from Russian News Agency)
