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Old 11-12-2003, 02:16 AM   #45 (permalink)
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just did some maths, each vanguard sub can cary 16 seperate missles, each missle can carry 12 MIRVS (mini-missles that break off main missle on re entry) each mirv can carry 120kt of nuclear payload. Thats 192 mirvs at 120kt each meaning 23,040kt of explosive force in each sub the bomb that dropped on hiroshima was 20kt that makes each sub 1152 times more powerfull than 1 hiroshima bomb. Scary stuff!

EDIT: By international law sub can only carry 48 MIRVS so thats 2760kt

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