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Re: World War III?

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Post by ljadw » 21 Sep 2022, 21:28

wm wrote:
21 Sep 2022, 18:45
According to Soviet Strategic Bombers by Jason Moore and Russian Wikipedia:
Tu-4 entered service in 1949, 

Tu-16 (max. speed Mach 0.9) in 1954,
Tu-95 (the one that dropped Tsar Bomba) in 1956.

They had 847 Tu-4s in 1952 and 30 Tu-95s in 1957.
847 was the number of Tu-4 that was build between 1949 and 1952 , not the number that the Soviets had in 1952 .
The range of the Tu-4 was 5400 km and the standard Tu-4 could not carry nuclear weapons ,that was reserved to the Tu-4A.
A range of 5400 km means 2500 km going and 2500 km returning ( there was always a margin needed ) ;shortest distance Moscow NYC = 7500 km !
Thus the Tu4 was not a longrange bomber but could only be used over Europe .
The 100000 dollar question : if the Soviets had a strategic bomber that could nuke the US ,why did they not start a conventional war in Europe ? NATO would lose in a conventional war and US could not use their nuclear weapons .

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Re: World War III?

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Post by wm » 21 Sep 2022, 21:47

It's all irrelevant.
The problem at hand is your ignorant statement:
US had til the launch of the Sputnik a nuclear monopoly: they could destroy the USSR and Europe ,while the Soviets could not attack US cities because they had no ICBMs and no bombers who could attack DC,etc,
When in fact, in the middle of the fifties, they could have obliterated entire Europe with their fleet of Tu-4s.
And bombed all major American cities with their Tu-95s, Tu-4s + Tu-16s (with in-flight refueling using their Tu-4 tankers), and Tu-4s on one-way missions.


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Re: World War III?

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Post by Aida1 » 22 Sep 2022, 08:29

ljadw wrote:
21 Sep 2022, 21:28
wm wrote:
21 Sep 2022, 18:45
According to Soviet Strategic Bombers by Jason Moore and Russian Wikipedia:
Tu-4 entered service in 1949, 

Tu-16 (max. speed Mach 0.9) in 1954,
Tu-95 (the one that dropped Tsar Bomba) in 1956.

They had 847 Tu-4s in 1952 and 30 Tu-95s in 1957.
847 was the number of Tu-4 that was build between 1949 and 1952 , not the number that the Soviets had in 1952 .
The range of the Tu-4 was 5400 km and the standard Tu-4 could not carry nuclear weapons ,that was reserved to the Tu-4A.
A range of 5400 km means 2500 km going and 2500 km returning ( there was always a margin needed ) ;shortest distance Moscow NYC = 7500 km !
Thus the Tu4 was not a longrange bomber but could only be used over Europe .
The 100000 dollar question : if the Soviets had a strategic bomber that could nuke the US ,why did they not start a conventional war in Europe ? NATO would lose in a conventional war and US could not use their nuclear weapons .
You were given sources that contradict you. The US could certainly still use its nuclear weapons.

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Re: World War III?

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Post by wm » 22 Sep 2022, 21:48

The fact that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers should not come as a surprise; the first four-engined bomber ever built and used was built by the precursor to the Soviet state, Imperial Russia.
The development of large bombers continued after the First World War, and in the 1930s, included the first four-engined all-metal bomber in service anywhere, the TB-3.
Soviet Strategic Bombers by Nicholas Moore

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Re: World War III?

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Post by ljadw » 23 Sep 2022, 12:59

wm wrote:
21 Sep 2022, 21:47


When in fact, in the middle of the fifties, they could have obliterated entire Europe with their fleet of Tu-4s.
This is totally irrelevant . The Soviets would not use tactical bombers to destroy Europe, unless the US would do it first .

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Re: World War III?

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Post by ljadw » 23 Sep 2022, 13:12

wm wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 21:48
The fact that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers should not come as a surprise; the first four-engined bomber ever built and used was built by the precursor to the Soviet state, Imperial Russia.


The development of large bombers continued after the First World War, and in the 1930s, included the first four-engined all-metal bomber in service anywhere, the TB-3.
Soviet Strategic Bombers by Nicholas Moore
The first sentence had no relation at all with the second sentence .
And the second sentence has no relation at all with the claim that in 1955 the Soviets could destroy US cities .
Thus Moore tells nonsense .
Besides, if the Soviets could destroy US cities with bombers, they would not have started the missile race .
After 1957 the Soviets started to build a few number of missiles ( the declarations/estimations of the CIA are lies ) as a defensive weapon,because their bombers could not prevent a US attack .They hoped that their missiles could do this .
What Moore is hiding ( not that I am surprised by this ) is that the maximum range of the TB-3 was 2000 km = less than 1000 km going and coming .This means that the TB-3 was not a strategic bomber .
Besides the production of the TB-3 stopped in 1939 .

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Re: World War III?

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Post by Aida1 » 23 Sep 2022, 13:23

ljadw wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:12
wm wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 21:48
The fact that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers should not come as a surprise; the first four-engined bomber ever built and used was built by the precursor to the Soviet state, Imperial Russia.


The development of large bombers continued after the First World War, and in the 1930s, included the first four-engined all-metal bomber in service anywhere, the TB-3.
Soviet Strategic Bombers by Nicholas Moore
The first sentence had no relation at all with the second sentence .
And the second sentence has no relation at all with the claim that in 1955 the Soviets could destroy US cities .
Thus Moore tells nonsense .
Besides, if the Soviets could destroy US cities with bombers, they would not have started the missile race .
After 1957 the Soviets started to build a few number of missiles ( the declarations/estimations of the CIA are lies ) as a defensive weapon,because their bombers could not prevent a US attack .They hoped that their missiles could do this .
What Moore is hiding ( not that I am surprised by this ) is that the maximum range of the TB-3 was 2000 km = less than 1000 km going and coming .This means that the TB-3 was not a strategic bomber .
Besides the production of the TB-3 stopped in 1939 .
As usual contradicting anybody that actually know what they are talking about and caling anybody a liar that doesn't conform to whatever personal opinion you express for which never any source is given.

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Re: World War III?

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Post by wm » 23 Sep 2022, 14:35

ljadw wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:12
Thus Moore tells nonsense .


The point is:
that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers
because this is why they had so many nice long-range and intercontinental bombers in the fifties.

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Re: World War III?

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Post by ljadw » 23 Sep 2022, 17:06

Aida1 wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:23
ljadw wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:12
wm wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 21:48
The fact that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers should not come as a surprise; the first four-engined bomber ever built and used was built by the precursor to the Soviet state, Imperial Russia.


The development of large bombers continued after the First World War, and in the 1930s, included the first four-engined all-metal bomber in service anywhere, the TB-3.
Soviet Strategic Bombers by Nicholas Moore
The first sentence had no relation at all with the second sentence .
And the second sentence has no relation at all with the claim that in 1955 the Soviets could destroy US cities .
Thus Moore tells nonsense .
Besides, if the Soviets could destroy US cities with bombers, they would not have started the missile race .
After 1957 the Soviets started to build a few number of missiles ( the declarations/estimations of the CIA are lies ) as a defensive weapon,because their bombers could not prevent a US attack .They hoped that their missiles could do this .
What Moore is hiding ( not that I am surprised by this ) is that the maximum range of the TB-3 was 2000 km = less than 1000 km going and coming .This means that the TB-3 was not a strategic bomber .
Besides the production of the TB-3 stopped in 1939 .
As usual contradicting anybody that actually know what they are talking about and caling anybody a liar that doesn't conform to whatever personal opinion you express for which never any source is given.
NIE 11-5-58 said that the Soviets could have 500 ICBMs in 1961, Alsop said that they would have 1500 in 1963 .
These are LIES.
The missile gap was invented by the CIA to prevent Nixon to become president,and by the USAAF to obtain more money .

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Re: World War III?

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Post by ljadw » 23 Sep 2022, 17:08

wm wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 14:35
ljadw wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:12
Thus Moore tells nonsense .


The point is:
that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers
because this is why they had so many nice long-range and intercontinental bombers in the fifties.
What is : so many ?

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Re: World War III?

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Post by Aida1 » 23 Sep 2022, 18:17

ljadw wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 17:06
Aida1 wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:23
ljadw wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 13:12
wm wrote:
22 Sep 2022, 21:48
The fact that the Soviet Union was a major builder and user of strategic bombers should not come as a surprise; the first four-engined bomber ever built and used was built by the precursor to the Soviet state, Imperial Russia.


The development of large bombers continued after the First World War, and in the 1930s, included the first four-engined all-metal bomber in service anywhere, the TB-3.
Soviet Strategic Bombers by Nicholas Moore
The first sentence had no relation at all with the second sentence .
And the second sentence has no relation at all with the claim that in 1955 the Soviets could destroy US cities .
Thus Moore tells nonsense .
Besides, if the Soviets could destroy US cities with bombers, they would not have started the missile race .
After 1957 the Soviets started to build a few number of missiles ( the declarations/estimations of the CIA are lies ) as a defensive weapon,because their bombers could not prevent a US attack .They hoped that their missiles could do this .
What Moore is hiding ( not that I am surprised by this ) is that the maximum range of the TB-3 was 2000 km = less than 1000 km going and coming .This means that the TB-3 was not a strategic bomber .
Besides the production of the TB-3 stopped in 1939 .
As usual contradicting anybody that actually know what they are talking about and caling anybody a liar that doesn't conform to whatever personal opinion you express for which never any source is given.
NIE 11-5-58 said that the Soviets could have 500 ICBMs in 1961, Alsop said that they would have 1500 in 1963 .
These are LIES.
The missile gap was invented by the CIA to prevent Nixon to become president,and by the USAAF to obtain more money .
As usual, your personal conspirationist opinion based on nothing at all.

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Re: World War III?

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Post by wm » 23 Sep 2022, 20:11

The Myasishchev M-4 Molot strategic bomber.
The M-4 sparked fears of a "bomber gap" when 18 of the aircraft were flown publicly on May Day in 1954.
myasishchev-m4-bison.jpg
1954.png

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Re: World War III?

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Post by Helmut0815 » 23 Sep 2022, 20:17

Russia is about to start a new test on the nuclear propelled Burevestnik (=Petrel, NATO code name: Skyfall) cruise missile.

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The missile has an unlimited range and has an unknown payload of thermonuclear warheads. It's propelled a by a nuclear ram jet which spits out radionuclides during it's flight.
In the 50s the US worked on an similar missile: Vought SLAM/Project Pluto aka The Flying Crowbar, a real doomsday device.


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Re: World War III?

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Post by wm » 23 Sep 2022, 21:26

A pointless weapon, costly, slow, and easy to shoot down. ICBMs are less costly and, at Mach 25, unstoppable.
Its supposed advantage of attacking from unexpected directions can be cheaper provided by SLBMs.

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Re: World War III?

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Post by ljadw » 24 Sep 2022, 12:46

wm wrote:
23 Sep 2022, 20:11
The Myasishchev M-4 Molot strategic bomber.
The M-4 sparked fears of a "bomber gap" when 18 of the aircraft were flown publicly on May Day in 1954.
myasishchev-m4-bison.jpg

1954.png
The M4 could not bomb the US and return ,only a few of the produced aircraft were put in service and in 1955 the Soviets replaced the M4 with a new prototype the 3M (Bison B ) which was not better .Only 74 3Ms were build, the CIA lied that it was 800 .
As the Missile Gap the Bomber Gap was an invention with as aim to increase the budget of the USAAF.
Source : Bomber Gap .

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