On 1/13/2020 2:15 PM, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> Recently one of the TV 'news-magazine's had a segment concerning a
> visit to an 'Ohio' class SSBN which had been converted to carry
> 'Tomahawk' cruise missiles.
> (I guess that actually makes it a SSGN)
> I had never realized how 'fat' an SLBM silo was until the camera was
> in front of one & the Capt mentioned that each silo now holds SEVEN
> 'Tomahawks'.

Yeah...they're pretty large.  A buddy was a reactor tech aboard an Ohio
during the late 80s/early 90s and mentioned that based on their warload,
they could drop one warhead every ten miles between New York and LA with
extra left over.

Kind of scary how much firepower one of them carries.

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Kurt Feltenberger
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