It totally depends on who shoots first. If it's the Americans it is possible to receive no damage but probable that targets in Alaska get hit. If it's the USSR, minimum of high single digits to several dozen. A couple of years ago i went on a bit of a research binge about this out of pure...
The points have changed from burning out the radar from EMP to blackouts and degradation of signals from the detonations. OK. Which is why the Nike-X system, the research of which which you showed above, was cancelled, due to limited engagement capacity and radar blackouts. Further on down on...
Because with the ABM treaty, the Americans decided that the system wasn't worth the trouble to keep running or developing further for one site and shut the program down. And at that time, the technology was not ready for a hit to kill system for exo-atmospheric intercepts. We now have that...
Why would they re-invent the wheel? Safeguard is under development and in planning for deployment with Sprint and Spartan finishing up testing . If they're going for an ABM system, they would quite quickly go back to the beefier Sentinel with the same missiles and massively expand it.
I can't see an auxiliary cruiser giving up that easily before being under effective fire. Being straddled and at a shorter range yes but extreme range, off bearing and very short. No.
And the people in 84 remembered that or had parents or siblings who did and were affected by the results. You can not compare the way people thought back then compared to today. Hell even 9/11 is more academic for a lot of people on this site let alone the depths of the cold war. Resignation to...
That's why the Soviets had a couple dozen or so SS-18 Mod 3 with a 25 MT warhead. For all the large hard targets. NORAD in Colorado and North Bay, Ontario were a couple of the targets. If they knew of Greenbriar, then that would be another. The bomber would be a nice to have but the missiles...
True. Vietnam was a huge shock to the military in regards to reluctant draftees and overall professionalism. The military wanted a volunteer military to raise standards so the draft died. Without it you may have the draft continue due to the the limited casualties due to the reduction of forces...
The draft was happening since just before the Americans entered WW2. With no Vietnam you may see it last till the late 70s or early 80s but it will still end.
FYI For Canada tank companies are called armoured squadrons, tank battalions are called armoured regiments with engineers having the same squadron and regiment designations. Any new regiments would probably be based around an existing regiment for armoured, artillery or engineers or for any...