What exactly are Putin's nuclear weapons for World War III?

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These are the weapons that Russia plans to use against NATO in World War 3. Halfway through the Cold War, the Soviet Union came to the painful realization that it couldn't compete with NATO in the skies. S-400 Give this its own title slide and include a picture. Better planes were being designed by Western engineers, but more importantly, they had much better electronics than their Soviet counterparts. Due to this, NATO fighters and air-to-air missiles were significantly more lethal than those used by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union focused on projecting bubbles of protection for its ground forces with a combination of air and ground assets rather than competing with NATO for control of the skies.

This led to a significant increase in ground-based air defense spending, which allowed the Soviet Union to field some of the best air defense systems in the world, a legacy that Russia has continued. The S-400, which is the development of the S-300, was first made public in 1993. The S-400 had reached full operational capability by 2007 and was causing major trouble for NATO's war planners. The S-400, dubbed a "stealth-killer," was developed specifically to counter the threat posed by American stealth aircraft. It targets, tracks, and destroys stealth aircraft using three different radars that are networked together. Stealth aircraft are not invisible to enemy radar, contrary to a common misconception.

The goal of stealth is to delay detection significantly rather than completely avoid it. This enables a stealth aircraft to approach its target closely enough to service it without being shot down by air defense systems. With its S-400 radars, which have a range of up to 600 kilometers, Russia has infamously claimed to have tracked American stealth aircraft. Many people concluded as a result of this that America's stealth programs were ineffective and that the S-400 was a technological panacea that America could never match. This assumption, however, is based on a straightforward misunderstanding of how various radars operate and interact with stealth aircraft.

Any stealth aircraft can be easily tracked. Low frequency radar arrays have historically been challenging for stealth aircraft to avoid, and it is true that these radars have tracked American F-22 and F-35 aircraft at considerable distances—certainly well outside of their own engagement envelopes. Low frequency radars, on the other hand, only provide a very general location of a stealth aircraft and are unable to provide the weapons-quality lock necessary to actually shoot one down. High frequency radars are used in this situation, and American stealth is made to avoid them. Therefore, even though an enemy may be able to identify the general direction that American stealth planes are traveling in, it will not be able to engage those aircraft until they are much closer.

For this reason, the US military employs stand-off attack weapons with ranges that are greater than what is needed for an effective lock by air defense. Even low frequency radars reportedly have trouble tracking the grandfather of stealth, the B-2, according to rumor. To identify approaching stealth aircraft, the S-400 uses the low frequency radars Nebo SVU and Protivnik G. These radars are then networked with the high frequency Gamma S1 radar array. Although no S-400 has ever engaged a stealth aircraft or vice versa, it is highly unlikely given that the US is still fielding weapons like the AARGM-ER, a missile designed to destroy enemy radars with a significantly increased range. Working together, the networked radars can actually increase the range of the S-400's air defense missiles.

The S-400's advantage is that it is only a small portion of a larger air defense network that would need to be dismantled piece by piece in order to ensure the safety of NATO aircraft. Diesel submarines of the Kilo and Lada classes are well known for being much quieter than nuclear submarines. American nuclear submarines are some of the quietest in the world, which explains why the technology underlying their reactors is so closely guarded. The United States has fought a long battle to quiet the noisy pumps that cool the nuclear reactors that power its submarines, and today those efforts have been successful. But even a mid-class diesel submarine can compete with American underwater stealth at a much lower price.

The fleet of diesel-electric submarines operated by Russia is strong in this regard. Russia's diesel boats can run on batteries and be incredibly quiet for a fraction of the price of US submarines. The Lada class of Russian submarines, on the other hand, may prove to be the quietest conventional submarine ever built. The Lada class's engines are powered by chemical reactions and hydrogen-oxygen fuel, as opposed to the Kilo class's battery-and-diesel engine combination. The Lada class may be even quieter than a nuclear submarine despite having standard diesel generators on board for backup or long distance travel. However, the Kilo or Lada class vessels must surface in order to recharge their batteries, which is the biggest drawback of a traditional submarine.

Although the Lada class has a radar-absorbent hull to lessen the range at which it can be detected when at the surface, this is where the subs are most vulnerable. Russia would probably only use its submarines in defensive operations close to its own waters because of their estimated 45-day endurance, which is the second greatest weakness of conventional submarines. However, most observers concur that the US has superior sensors, weapons, and the advantage of extremely long duration because of nuclear power, despite the technological advances between the Kilo and Lada classes. We wouldn't be surprised to learn that Russia's submarine fleet lags behind the west significantly in terms of capabilities and survivability, given the performance of the Russian military in Ukraine and the realization that many of Russia's claims about its weapons have been completely overstated.

The most potent surface combatant in the world that is neither an aircraft carrier nor an amphibious assault ship is the Kirov-class battle cruiser. A US carrier battle group was specifically targeted by these enormous, nuclear-powered monsters in order to be rammed down its throat and sunk. The 20 Granit anti-ship missiles, which were built specifically to destroy American carriers, are the most potent of these armored behemoths' offensive and defensive arsenals.