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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Not that we want to try to find out, but is it a given that the Russians still have the ability to blow up the world? How much maintenance has been done on their nuclear arsenal over the decades and are their modern missiles really capable of crossing the world successfully and able to evade modern countermeasures?
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The Russian's are reportedly sitting on 4500 weapons of various size with about a 3rd of those strategic and not tactical weapons of various size with about 900 on ballistic missiles.
The Russians have spent a ton of money over the last few years on a modernization of their Nuclear Arsenal,
They've also been working on super heavy ICBM's like the Sarmat, supposedly they've gone into production.
The Russians have also deployed the RSM-56 Sub launched missile on their modern Borei Ballistic Missile Submarines which I think there are 5 on active duty with each carrying 16 missiles with 6 warheads each.
The Soviets first and the Russians have always been very aware of the use of deterrence weapons in the defense of their country, so expect that their modernization has been effective.
Also there's no ABM that's going to stop a launch of several hundred missiles. The question if that happens is not if the weapons hit, because a large number of them will its how much over kill will happen.