Cruising under your radar, watching from satellites...
September 30, 2018 3:17 PM Subscribe
"I tried to collect all these radars - past, current, and future - in one place, or, rather, one Google Earth file. Here it is - Russian Early-Warning Radars 2018.kmz." Via Russianforces.org: "The goal of the project is to provide Russian citizens and policy makers with information about nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament based on open scientific analysis" (previously on Metafilter, and h/t @sovietvisuals).
Very neat. I had no idea the Russians had gone through so many generations of systems. Although it does mesh with the post-Cold War reevaluation of the Russian mindset, which (at least to me) was much more focused on defense than the US was.
They built deep underground bunkers that you could ride out a war in, and built the Moscow subway to serve as a giant public bomb shelter. The US has "doomsday planes" designed to survive just long enough to give the final launch order, and we taught our kids to bend over and kiss their ass goodbye. They had multiple layers of terminal missile defense around Moscow with megaton-yield warheads. Given the same choice of one area to protect under treaty, we picked a slice of North Dakota, the better to make sure we could reach back from beyond the grave and drag them into it too.
In retrospect, we were the craziest motherfuckers in that particular room.
posted by Kadin2048 at 1:15 PM on October 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
They built deep underground bunkers that you could ride out a war in, and built the Moscow subway to serve as a giant public bomb shelter. The US has "doomsday planes" designed to survive just long enough to give the final launch order, and we taught our kids to bend over and kiss their ass goodbye. They had multiple layers of terminal missile defense around Moscow with megaton-yield warheads. Given the same choice of one area to protect under treaty, we picked a slice of North Dakota, the better to make sure we could reach back from beyond the grave and drag them into it too.
In retrospect, we were the craziest motherfuckers in that particular room.
posted by Kadin2048 at 1:15 PM on October 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
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