[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

OH NO correct away! I had considered MIRV's but couldn't get the count: The confusion thus arises: If the USS Madison even had the latest W-58 version in 1974 as of the collision date, and if that: 'three war heads' per silo-thus I assumed the "lesser of two weevils" (this being a Naval forum) and went with a dramatic Newspaper typo error on the assumption: 'Ya gotta sell papers'..assuming the W-58 makes it 48 warheads imho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris Transfer of a Polaris missile between USS Proteus and USS Patrick Henry at Holy Loch, Scotland, in 1961

You may well be right Aktung. It's really hard to know the exact count there. It still makes you think about the destructive power though.