Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 9/21/2024 8:01 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> writes:

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:00:55 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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Australia is buying several Virgina class attack submarines from the
USA.  One wonders what armament those subs will have.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine
>

Yup - but there's a huge difference between using a nuclear reactor to
boil steam to drive turbines which drive the sub (which is the usual
propulsion method in nuclear submarines) and submarines carrying
nuclear weapons (usually missiles). SSBNs are almost always nuclear
powered but carry nuclear missiles as opposed to SSNs which refers
only to the propulsion system.

 SSNs carry Tomahawks.  Look up TLAM-N.

Tomahawks have a much shorter range and smaller payload capacity than the strategic missiles carried by SSBNs.  The nukes on Tomahawks are "tactical" warheads, not city killers.
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