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Initial Loadout of a Trident (Ohio class)
🕑 Added 2019-07-22 18:42:10 +0000 UTCShe is ready to receive. This is one of the only times you will see a Trident with it's hatches open. After commissioning ceremony is done, she gets loaded with ballast shapes for sea trials. Nuclear missiles (D-5) are next. Because of Nuclear Treaties, it was rare to have more than 4-5 missiles loaded at a time. A real waste of this ships capability.
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When the Ohio Class was designed no Treaty limits were in place, normal warhead count per missile was 7 but it could be up to 10. Treaty states that every missile will be counted it has the max mumber. So 24 missiles, 10 each. 240 per boat. With the treaty reducing total weapon count, Bombs, ICBM land base and SLBM so as too not put all the eggs in one basket and keep full count of hulls, missle load outs are reduced and with the design of the new SSBN they are only going to have 16 tubes.
I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think those tubes hold "just" nukes.
Andrew Charlton
If they can only carry a limited load, whats the point in designing the boat to carry more? Surely space could be dedicated to carrying more provisions etc?
