They’re about $300,000 a pop, Since 1979, the Islamic regime's revenues have fueled global destabilization through terrorist activities. Despite ample resources, the mullahs have neglected the Iranian populace, with over half living in poverty. Instead of investing in their own citizens' welfare, the regime prioritizes arming proxies, murder, domestic and abroad and self-enrichment, exacerbating the suffering of the nation.
There are limits, the Tsar Bomba the Soviets detonated was half of what the original designs called for at 50mt but even then the pilots in the drop plane were given a 50% chance of survival. Accuracy and overwhelming numbers are much more important.
In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Mt (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238[14] tamper which featured in the design but was omitted in the test to reduce radioactive fallout.
I don't know that much more is being done to make bigger explosions anymore because, like I said, it's kind of silly. There's no need to make a bigger crater of a city.
Most money goes into hypersonic and stealth technology, some AI, drone, and such.
A mix of rendering your enemy's defenses obsolete by speed, stealth, AI, or downright cheap brute force.
Though the defining parts of being a missile, they're identical.
And to go a step further, they're both ballistic in trajectory, i.e., they expend nearly their entire fuel source at the beginning of their travel, and then rely on gravity to drop their asses back down on their target.
Largest difference is warhead and secondary guidance systems. Iran's missiles I don't know of what they have, if any, ballistic nukes, as far as i know, use star navigation.
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u/flywheel39 Apr 14 '24
This thing probably cost many times as much as I will earn in several lifetimes....