Are modern nuclear missiles built to be stealthy? Are they easily

>>33184687

ICBM's have three main parts: the rocket, the warhead bus, and the warheads.

You can't make a rocket stealthy. It's a giant metal tube with a fireball shooting out of one end. Tracking them and shooting them down is easy, if you have the radar and missiles set up close enough to reach the rocket in time.

The bus can't really be made stealthy either, for the same reason the rocket can't, and you can tell where the bus is pretty easily because it is carried to its terminal location by the unstealthy rocket.

The warheads can be made stealthy, and modern ones are. They are also accompanied by countermeasures and decoys that make it hard to shoot them down. The reason why the warheads are stealthy is because they're literally thrown from the bus at high speed and then fall to their targets, rather than being propelled there by a rocket. Their shape and the materials they're made of also make them stealthier, in the same way that stealth aircraft are made stealthier.

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>>33184763
>You can't make a rocket stealthy

>>33184798

Firstly, videogames are not reality.

Secondly, the nukes that Rex fired were not rockets, but railgun rounds.

So you're not just wrong in reality, but you're even wrong in the fictional videogame world that you've confused with reality.

>>33184687
>intercepting them with tinier nuclear missiles sounds easy.

Your mom is easier.

>>33184798

How do you even breath

>>33184687
by the time you are doing a terminal or even a midcourse intercept your target is going at such a crazy relative speed to you that even the tiniest error or inexactness means you will miss

also they fly in with penetration aids and decoys that are indistinguishable from the real thing

>>33184687
>evil russian BUK being intercepted by western ICBM

poetry
this machine kills human beings

>>33184798
A weapon to surpass metal gear?

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What protects the warheads though?

Why not just launch a nuke up to intercept the MIRV during or before separation? At worst, you have a couple balls of weapons grade element falling while their housing was atomized.

Pic related MIRV. Scary shit.

>>33184798
Patriots btfo

>>33185774
Breathing tube

>>33186991
You bring a good question...

Is there less fall out from an unexploded or exploded nuke. Assuming that all the shielding was gone.

>>33184839

Kek

>>33186991
The Russian ABM systems have always been nuclear-armed.

When stuff that small is moving that fast in each direction, though, it's still hard to pull off an intercept. Pictures and .ppts don't do it justice.

>>33184687

it's not difficult to intercept the rockets in early course as long as you have interceptors in range.

it's difficult, but within the realms of possibility to intercept an ICBM during mid course (when it's in space). once again, you need properly located interceptor bases to do it.

it's pretty much impossible to intercept individual warheads once they've seperated, even if the missile hasn't included decoys and other trickeration. the terminal velocity of a warhead on reentry is ridiculous; like 10+ Kms per second

>>33184798
Metal Gear launches nukes?