the ohio-class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the u.s navy which carry upwards of half of the united states nuclear arsenal on board if you do the math the ohio-class boats may be the most destructive weapon systems created by humankind each of the 170 meter long vessels can carry 24 trident 2 submarine-launched ballistic missiles slpms which can be fired from underwater to strike at targets more than
7 000 miles away depending on the load as a trident 2 re-enters the atmosphere at speeds of up to mach 24 it splits up
into 8 independent re-entry vehicles each with a 100 or 475 kiloton nuclear warhead in short a full salvo from an ohio-class
submarine which can be launched in less than one minute could unleash up to 192 nuclear warheads to wipe 24 cities off the map this is a nightmarish weapon of the apocalypse
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