How far off the US Coast for a Russian sub to achive totoal surprise?

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by miker42

Greetings all. I'm new to the subsim community. I've been doing reserach for an "analog" game I'm designing and I have a couple of questions:

1. By today's standards, how close the US coast would a Russian Sub driver try to get to launch nukes and achive maximum surprise with as little reaction time as possible from the US. In other words, total surprise.

2. How would the US react and deal with such a threat?

3. What kinds of systems does the US have in place to fight off such an attack?

4. How would it be dealt with if the US had, say 30-60 minutes before any kind of MIRV seperation or impact?

Thanks,
Mike

1) SS-N-20 SS-N-23 SS-N-X (buluva) can be fired from russian ports and still hit mainland america so the russian subs dont need to even leave port.

2) not alot they can do once they have hit apart from posibly retaliate which is known as MAD mutually assured distruction.

3) they have a few systems in testing such as the star wars programes, i do believe that standard SAM missiles may be able to destroy a warhead thats in bound but the likely hood is slim as most russian warheads will detonate in mid air.

4) seperation takes only a minuet or two and from space to ground less than 10 minuets so to engauge those missiles before they come well into range you would have to attack the launcher before they can get off the first missile.