Forget Tom Cruise and Top Gun 3. After the amazing comments from President Donald Trump about repositioning nuclear submarines in Ohio-class, Hollywood might have to be hunting for Red October. The classic undersea thriller from 1990 played former 007 actor Sean Connery as a Russian navy captain trying to prevent a nuclear war by defecting to the United States with the murderous nuclear armed submarine of the Soviet Union, the red October.
The SSBN Ohio-class Trident Ballistic Missile submarines or “Boomers” wear 20 intercontinental missiles with multiple nuclear nuclear heads each. They patrol under water for weeks without tracing again. American presidents never really talk about their tactical locations. But last Friday, Trump broke that rule for a good reason: Russia reminds us that the deadly Trident Submarine Fleet ensures that Russia will never win a nuclear war. “I ordered that two nuclear submarines are placed in the right regions, in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than alone,” Trump wrote on August 1.
Trump’s movement to put the submarines in position is nuclear signaling that goes much further than Ukraine. The reach of the Trident missiles is around 4000 miles. For maximum deterrence, the submarines patrol in an area where they are in the optimum range to jeopardize Russian goals. On Sunday, to be sure, Trump announced that the nuclear submarines were ‘in the region’.
Trump lifts veil on the American submarines in warning shot to Kremlin in ‘smart’ repositioning movement
This is why Trump’s Armageddon chess movement with the submarines in Ohio-class should send cold shivers over your spine.
Not detectable. Trump was provoked by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s comments on the so-called “dead hand” or perimeter system, where allegedly Russian nuclear weapons are automatically launched, even when leadership is switched off. Trident -submarines are a guarantee for deterrence because they cannot be directed. Russian nuclear core heads on intercontinental ballistic rockets can reach the US within about 30 minutes. The Trident System, however, is the most safe part of America’s strategic triad because they “are hardly detectable in the opaque oceans of the world,” says submarine force Pacific, which operates eight tridents. That means that the nuclear weapons on submarines would survive any Russian (or Chinese) strike. For that reason, the submarines are considered the heart of nuclear deterrence.
Multiple nuclear heads. These submarines are huge. On more than 550 feet, they are almost twice the length of a football field. Their 18,000 pounds. Relocation is twice as heavy as an American navy destroyer and more in line with an aircraft carrier from the Second World War. The Ohio class must be large, because they wear 20 Trident II D5 rockets that are 44 feet long. Each rocket contains several, independently oriented re-entry vehicles or MIRV for short. Kuper options include 100 kilotones, 400 kilotones and the new 5 kiloton core head with a low yield, deployed in 2020 in the case “potential opponents, such as Russia, are of the opinion that the employment of nuclear weapons with a low efficiency will give them an advantage over the United States and his allies and its allies.
They are surviving. No GPS? No problem. The submarines also navigate through bathmetric maps in the ocean and the rockets fly with old-school slowness conductor systems. Because the Boomers are mobile and almost non -detectable at sea, they cannot be targeted. Their mission is to be lurking to ensure that no Russian preventive strike can eliminate all the nuclear arsenal of America. The Ultra-Quiet OHIO class uses the longer Trident II D5 rocket ranges to work in literally tens of millions of square miles ocean.
China builds their nuclear weapons. This week, China has taken a “nothing to see here” in attitude, but you know they keep an eye on Trump’s word. A Chinese navy “Great Wall” submarine joined Russian navy wargames in the sea of Japan this week. The nuclear arsenal of China surpassed 600 nuclear core head on its way to an arsenal of 1500 by 2035 last year, reported the Pentagon.
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Eighty years have passed since B-29 bombers of the Air Force of the US Army atomic weapons on Hiroshima dropped on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9. This generation of Americans is not familiar with a nuclear attitude. From Kennedy to Reagan, American presidents trusted nuclear arming submarines at sea to retain peace. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 considerably relaxed the nuclear attitude. Then Putin and his delusions of Russian grandeur came at the expense of nearly a million victims in Ukraine.
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Fortunately, the American nuclear triad has been built, so that Putin knows that the submarines will always have the last word. The replacement Columbia class is already under construction and a high priority for secretary of the Navy John Phelan.
These boomers can really go anywhere without a track. It is the ultimate deterrent, as the Russians know very well.
