I was curious as to the different meaning of trident and discovered-Britain owns and operates 58 of these missiles, each of which can carry I believe up to 12 warheads, although how this actually operates in British service is some information. to which I am not a party. In US Service, due to SORT (Full Name: The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions), the Trident II carries just 4-5 warheads of either 475 kilotons or 100 kilotons. For reference purposes, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) had an explosive force of somewhere between 13 and 18 kilotons (FYI a kiloton is equivalent to 1000 tons of TNT) and the bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Fat Man) carried a yield of 22 kilotons. So theoretically a single Trident delivery system can carry 12 475kt warheads for a total tonnage of 5,700kt, or 271 “Fat Man” bombs.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:38:06 +0000
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