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| targeted nukes are much smaller outer blast radius but VERY good at burrowing. one of these should go off at some point during the campaign and it should be a BIG fucking deal. pretty much all of these were thought to have been used in the initial war and nobody knows who fired it | targeted nukes are much smaller outer blast radius but VERY good at burrowing. one of these should go off at some point during the campaign and it should be a BIG fucking deal. pretty much all of these were thought to have been used in the initial war and nobody knows who fired it | ||
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| if accuracy is reasonably low even in aimed mode, that makes it even more like... what the fuck since there wasn't a very good chance of it hitting and nobody is claiming to be the nation who fired it, so why do it? | if accuracy is reasonably low even in aimed mode, that makes it even more like... what the fuck since there wasn't a very good chance of it hitting and nobody is claiming to be the nation who fired it, so why do it? | ||
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| + | maybe it's aimed at a SUPER juicy target and even the like 5% chance was worth at least trying if you pop off one nuke and take out a superpower | ||
| and maybe even in diffuse mode they get more and more accurate due to offloading calculations. like, firing and the list of coordinates it generates are seperated, so as you fire inaccurately the other shit's dialing in location | and maybe even in diffuse mode they get more and more accurate due to offloading calculations. like, firing and the list of coordinates it generates are seperated, so as you fire inaccurately the other shit's dialing in location | ||
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| main weapon used to create devastation, | main weapon used to create devastation, | ||
| - | how do you dial down circles without trigonometry? | + | missile itself sends out data and needs to to calibrate firing system, meaning local EMPing if you know a nuke is coming is a valid strategy |
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| + | when bombs initially went off, world was just kind of stuck at that point in arms race/ | ||