Modern warfare has changed the impact of military strength on the trend of the war situation, and all countries still attach great importance to the building of their own troops. Compared with the strength of troops, modern and advanced equipment has a more significant impact on the outcome of the war. However, even with advanced equipment, its greatest role still needs to be matched with soldiers, which is one of the reasons why countries attach importance to the construction of their own teams.
The aircraft carrier is known as the "overlord of the sea", and the fifth-generation aircraft is the most advanced fighter in the world, but when it comes to the world's most lethal **, the nuclear bomb is undoubtedly among the best. Nuclear bombs use the huge amount of heat, light energy and shock waves released by the most important nuclear reactions to cause serious damage to the target, and atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and nuclear missiles all belong to the category of nuclear bombs.
To date, there have been only two wars in the world in which nuclear bombs have been used, namely the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan at the end of World War II. The two atomic bombs, named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man", respectively, caused unimaginable damage and ** to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
With the continuous development of science and technology in various countries, air defense and anti-missile systems capable of intercepting missiles and fighter jets have appeared in the world, which has triggered people to think about a question: Once a nuclear missile is launched, can it be successfully intercepted?However, it is desperate that if this happens, humanity will have to be tied to it.
The main reason why all countries are so admiring nuclear missiles and even joining the ranks of nuclear bomb possessors at all costs is that at present, there are no air defense and anti-missile systems capable of successfully intercepting nuclear missiles at the level of science and technology in all countries in the world. Although countries have anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons to intercept conventional missiles, they can only hold back nuclear bombs, especially intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles.
At present, the world's anti-aircraft missiles can only carry out mid-course anti-missile and terminal anti-missile, that is, when the target ballistic missile enters the mid-flight stage (outside the atmosphere), the air defense system launches the corresponding anti-aircraft missile to intercept it;The same is true for terminal anti-missiles. At present, there are very few countries that have mastered the mid-course anti-missile technology, and only three of them, China, the United States, and Russia, are able to realize this technology.
Despite the fact that the mid-course anti-missile technology is much more advanced than the terminal anti-missile technology, it is still not possible to completely intercept nuclear missiles. With the continuous improvement of the world's scientific and technological level, the number of intercepted targets is constantly increasing, and the success rate of interception with mid-course anti-missile technology is constantly decreasing. In contrast, the terminal anti-missile technology is more widely used, such as China's Hongqi-9 and other ** systems.
The terminal anti-missile technology is relatively effective in intercepting conventional missiles, but it is extremely difficult to intercept nuclear missiles, and some people even say that once a nuclear missile is launched, it is destined to wait for an attack. So why are nuclear missiles so difficult to intercept?
This is because the manufacturing cost and launch cost of nuclear missiles are very expensive, and countries pay special attention to improving their survivability on the battlefield when developing such **. Judging from the current several ways to launch nuclear bombs, sea and land drops are the least likely to be detected by various countries.
Once a nuclear missile is launched, it goes through a process of ascent, suborbital flight, entering the atmosphere to strike at the target, etc. When a nuclear bomb enters a suborbital flight, its speed can reach more than Mach 20, and at present, the air defense and anti-missile systems of various countries have not been able to successfully intercept the missiles of the nuclear bomb during its suborbital flight.
When the nuclear bomb enters the atmosphere again and is about to strike at the target, the countries will still not be able to intercept it, because the nuclear bomb will become faster under the action of gravity, and the countries will not have a suitable ** to intercept the nuclear bomb. Nowadays, there are nuclear warheads that carry multiple nuclear warheads at once, which makes it difficult to intercept all of them, even if they are intentionally intercepted.
Once a nuclear missile is launched, countries can only prepare to rebuild, because it is difficult to survive. Of course, the premise is that countries do not choose to attack each other, and if the two countries start dropping nuclear bombs on each other, humanity may face immediate destruction, and the idea of rebuilding the country will become a luxury.