Realistically, what would happen if a nuclear missile was launched

>>34098357
CLONK

>>34098357
It would eventually melt itself, igniting the rest of the fuel.

Nothing they have safety features for that stuff. I know cause I build submarines.

>>34098384

So the missile simply can't launch if the door isn't opened no matter how much you press the button?

>>34098412
Yep, you HAVE to open the silo door for ignition to occur.

>>34098384
NZ has submarines?

>>34098422
Yes, I build them.
>>34098412
Yes, I build them.

>>34098357
Is it done, Yuri?

>>34098357
Is it actually that red inside a submarine? Why don't they just use normal light bulbs so they don't hurt their eyes?

>>34098504
No, comrade Premier. It has only just begun.

>>34098509
1) That's not a sub, its a land-based silo. Play Red Alert 2.

2) Red is actually one of the easiest colors on the eyes. They use it as night lighting so as to not ruin your night vision.

>>34098509
That's supposed to be a silo, not a sub. But it's dramatic lighting not practical.

>>34098509
Red lights for combat/emergency use.
Red lights preserve night vision so faster adjustment to low light/night lighting levels
Used for dramatic effect in many movies to set mood in times real military environments would not use them

>>34098357
Like a bunch of systems would have to be bypassed to fire a missile while silo/launch tube still closed. It's enough energy in propellant to make a real good weapon. Still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion occured. This was not a engine ignition but a accident from a tool falling and hitting the missile.

Interesting enough I was living in the area at the time.

>>34098509
I don't know if they still do this in modern submarines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect

>>34098811
>Red lights for combat/emergency use.

I dunno about that, but on ships the red lighting gets turned on after 2200 in passageways and berthing areas. It's actually easy to sleep in those lighting conditions.

>>34098908
I have a digital clock on my nightstand that's red; its much easier to read in the middle of the night than the blue one I used to have.

>>34098357
It would explode you dumb idiot
Its just like a bullet fired at a concrete wall.
IT WOULD DETONATE
(source Navy Seal)
I cant believe you are even debating this

>>34098521
>>34098504
>>34098525

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOD8qeCBuc

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>>34098384
>>34098509
>I know cause I build submarines
>Is it actually that red inside a submarine?

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>>34098357
>billion dollar SSBN
>can't into PLC interlock?

you're right I'm sure it would incinerate the boat, simple PLC interlocks are clearly too high-tech for SLBMs

>>34098357
Well one would assume a number of basic safety interlocks would prevent anything from happening.

If the cardboard compactor at a retail store has triple interlock hard checks so some idiot doesn't crush his hand, then I am sure this has something just as good, if not a million times better.

Assuming all of those things fail the rocket motor would start and the flame would start melting everything. Eventually it would over pressurized the chamber and you would get explosive pressure equalization when a wall burst. Or in a less likely case it would melt the main booster fuel case and detonated it (just the fuel, not the warhead). While both explosions would be sizable, the second noticeable more given the amount of fuel. It would very likely taking out a chunk of a wall or ceiling. It would be very small compared to if the missile warhead actually detonated, which is very complex and hard to do given the designs, even for the early non-nuclear stages. Depending on missile interrogatory you may or may not get radiation leaks, but it would at very worse be a dirty bomb. Still something relativity easy to contain if anyone nearby knows what they are doing and not likely to kill anyone who wasn't standing next to it or decided to stay there to try and gain mutant powers.

Assuming all that goes perfectly wrong, and I mean PERFECTLY wrong, with insane astronomical odds. The fuel detonation could "theoretically" triggers the first stage of the warhead detonation and makes for a bigger convectional explosion. This oddly enough may lower the odds of radiation leaks as the normal fail safes include improperly detonating the charges throwing the radioactive part out whole to prevent such radiation issues.

If by some act of vengeful divine intervention the first charge implodes in such a manner to actully trgger a explosive neclaer reaction, then and only then would it go boom like nukes are steryotyped to do. But if you know anything, know that's not happenig.

>>34099105
fun fact when the moronic fag replaces the sensors with wrong on/off on error ones your entire carefully crafted security system crumbles to shits.

>>34099408
Also many ground based silos are actually reinforced so they don't blow ever if the all the fuel detonates at once.
I am not sure about a sub.

>>34099095
They don't have lights on them when I build them, they get put on afterwards.

>>34098357
It would be extremely painful.

>>34101616

You're a big guy

>>34103450
For you

>>34099414

Are you 8 years old?

>>34098357
This is suicide!

>>34098504
I fucking LOVE that game

>>34099460
Yes and no. Here in Burgerland we have a beached submarine called the Silversides, and if you do an overnight they demo what it's like with just the red lights on. It's just pure red since there's no other light.
>>34098357
If it blew up, it wouldn't be an nuclear explosion, it'd just be a dirty bomb. For implosion-type bombs, you need very specific timing in order to get the whole thing to collapse evenly. Otherwise, you never get critical mass.

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they weren't an icbm, but nuclear devices were dropped in nc a long as time ago and they didn't detonate. these things have triggers for a reason

>link related

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/

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>>34101616
>>34103450
>>34103474

>>34108317
>>34098509
so why red its not like they are being seen inside? I can understand an emergency light that is a danger signal or something. is it because there inside a sub for so long and don't want to hurt there eyes?

>>34108317
red light doesn't destroy your night vision