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ET2SN · 09-20-19, 09:32 AM

One of the more dangerous questions I've wondered about (and Subsim seems like the perfect place to ask it) is that if you have a fleet of SSBN's in your Navy, how would you really use them?

Launch the missiles as part of your first strike, launch them as a follow-on strike, or don't launch them at all?

Think about it, a nuclear exchange will send both sides back to the stone age (or at least back to the frontier days) for several generations -assuming there are survivors. That means no more bombs or missiles for a hundred years or so.

So, would you really want your boomers to launch or would it be better to keep them at sea until the shooting stops and then bring back home so you still have some kind of a stockpile for the future?

09-20-19, 09:32 AM	#1
ET2SN Ocean Warrior Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,652 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	One of the more dangerous questions I've wondered about (and Subsim seems like the perfect place to ask it) is that if you have a fleet of SSBN's in your Navy, how would you really use them? Launch the missiles as part of your first strike, launch them as a follow-on strike, or don't launch them at all? Think about it, a nuclear exchange will send both sides back to the stone age (or at least back to the frontier days) for several generations -assuming there are survivors. That means no more bombs or missiles for a hundred years or so. So, would you really want your boomers to launch or would it be better to keep them at sea until the shooting stops and then bring back home so you still have some kind of a stockpile for the future?