Both sides can nuke each other in about 12 minutes. It's not that far from the arctic circle to Moscow or NY for an ICBM that's has a peak speed close to 18,000mph.

Russian nuke subs are the only serious threat to the US that Russia has, and they are effective weapon systems that have to be respected.

Ukraine pulled back the curtain on the Russian Expeditionary Force.

One thing the US and Russia both do is quietly fund the submarine services and not talk about it.

There are 7 Borei class, with 16 missiles each with 6 warheads, in addition to 8 more Delta class, operational and regularly deployed, with 16 missile each with 4 to 10 warheads each. That's a minimum of 1,200 warheads between 100kt to 500kt, mostly 125 kt warheads, for a guestimate of 150,000 kilotons they can throw at us with 15 minutes notice, just from submarines.

There's enough warheads on just the submarines to nuke every city in the US with a population above 100,000, 4 times.

and for getting the curtain pulled back, yeah in some ways, but does it matter? Russian momentum is continuing to build. They've entered Avdiivka and the fighting is now house to house. Ukraine doesn't have the reserves.

Ukraine has to generate another 500,00 troops, train them, resolve the trash logistics that NATO forced on them by sending them vehicles from 15 different countries with 15 different logistics trains and few spare parts, and get them to the field by Spring/Summer 2024 or they will lose in the long run.

That was the mainstream belief. All of the "mil bloggers", basing the knowledge on simulators showing gear working exactly like wikipedia says it should, where logistics, maintenance, and corruption don't matter, absolutely knew Russia would roll them up in a few days like the US forces did to the Iraqi military.

Anybody's that's ever done anything OPFOR related, foresaw a -------- of forests with a slav behind every tree with an RPG and a quagmire waiting to happen.

Assuming you're in a Hunter Killer sitting 1 mile away from the boomer, it takes 1.15 minutes to travel the distance, not including the time to it takes to load and shoot. Assuming you shoot when the first missile leaves its tubes, it will have fired at least 4 more ICBMs before the MK48 gets there. That's still 85+ missiles with enough warheads to hit every military target in the US and every population center about a quarter million people with an average 125kt.

It's still doomsday, even with a top tier performance from the US Navy.

It was a talking head on Russian state news, not Putin.