Howdy folks, I couldn't find a good documentation of possible targets in West Europe in say, a 1975 nuclear war. I know of obvious ones (Paris, Bonn, etc.) but could you guys fill me in on more obscure ones? Thanks.
Nuclear targets in West Europe.
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Major ports, rail marshaling yards, airports, air bases, Reforger sites, communication hubs and infrastructure junctions, power plants, major industrial sites, oil refineries and major population centers. Wherever you see something like this, you can be certain that it will be targeted by one or multiple warheads.
Naval bases, barracks etc.
However, it's also worth remembering that the Soviets may have to use some ICBM's on European targets as their IRBM force is not of the best in accuracy at that time. They are reliant on SS-4 and SS-5 missiles, plus shorter ranged theatre stuff and bombers. There are rather more SS-4's than SS-5's (max deployments where 600+ SS-4 to 100- SS-5)
The Government bunker of the West German government near the town of Ahrweiler some 25 km south of Bonn. Using a 25 mt bunker busting device would also destroy several military facilities located in the area.
hammo1j
Donor
Theres this book by Sir John Hackett who was ex NATO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_World_War:_The_Untold_Story
Obviously someone in the Politburo had something against the home of Heavy Metal...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_World_War:_The_Untold_Story
Obviously someone in the Politburo had something against the home of Heavy Metal...
here target map
is form swedish magazin Ambio in year 1984
(also reprint in book "Futurewar" by Frank Barnaby)
is form swedish magazin Ambio in year 1984
(also reprint in book "Futurewar" by Frank Barnaby)
It appears even Switzerland is not immune from being targeted during a nuclear exchange.
Riain
Banned
I've been reading about the RAAF in Korea and how a pilot of a jet fighter made about 6 strafing passes to get a peasant on a bicycle with an A frame strapped to his back simply because he was moving behind the lines during the day. When the pilot finally got him he exploded, the A frame was full of mortar shells or something.
Now think to Europe in 1975 where both sides had nuclear artillery (and even mortar) shells, nuclear demolition mines, short range rockets (FROG, Lance) and bombs for tactical aircraft in the thousands. It would come to a point where a shopping centre will get a nuke shell so troops can't forage for food and tools and an intersection will get bombed so tanks have to go around it. Basically everything will cop a nuke in the worst case scenarios.
Now think to Europe in 1975 where both sides had nuclear artillery (and even mortar) shells, nuclear demolition mines, short range rockets (FROG, Lance) and bombs for tactical aircraft in the thousands. It would come to a point where a shopping centre will get a nuke shell so troops can't forage for food and tools and an intersection will get bombed so tanks have to go around it. Basically everything will cop a nuke in the worst case scenarios.
Clipper747
Banned
here target map
is form swedish magazin Ambio in year 1984
(also reprint in book "Futurewar" by Frank Barnaby)
Holy cow. Now try and fight in NBC gear through all of that.
It's not even a complete map; there are at least 2 USAF bases I have lived at that don't show as strike zones on the US part of the map--which shows less than half the area of the USA of course.
If the mapmakers only had the most impressionistic idea of where the American bases were, and were willing to let strikes at the Mobile/Pensacola area cover taking out Tyndall AFB (farther to the west, where the Florida panhandle has a bulge) and a couple random strikes in Maine symbolically cover the elimination of the major SAC base Loring, presumably one should something like double the number of nuclear smears on both continents to get a more thorough idea.
Of just where the primary, pre-planned targets would be, that is, let alone future targets of opportunity!
If the mapmakers only had the most impressionistic idea of where the American bases were, and were willing to let strikes at the Mobile/Pensacola area cover taking out Tyndall AFB (farther to the west, where the Florida panhandle has a bulge) and a couple random strikes in Maine symbolically cover the elimination of the major SAC base Loring, presumably one should something like double the number of nuclear smears on both continents to get a more thorough idea.
Of just where the primary, pre-planned targets would be, that is, let alone future targets of opportunity!
here target map
is form swedish magazin Ambio in year 1984
(also reprint in book "Futurewar" by Frank Barnaby)
Why is Sligo a target?
You might be interested in the 1979 Soviet wargame, Seven Days to the River Rhine. The British expected Soviet attack was Square Leg.
It's also of interest to note that American planning in the 1980s turned to a number of exercises that contemplated conventional war (the Global Wargame 1979-83 & 1984-89 series).
It's also of interest to note that American planning in the 1980s turned to a number of exercises that contemplated conventional war (the Global Wargame 1979-83 & 1984-89 series).
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