Nuclear Future: Underwater and in the Skies

... and creating new weapons; it would produce fundamentally new capabilities for the aviation’s function as a component of the nuclear triad as well. That, however, will also demand fundamentally, almost radically new solutions. As mentioned above, the ... ... heightened missile carrier vulnerability both during strikes and while on airborne alert. The first problem was partially resolved by LRCMs: back at the turn of the 1980s–1990s, their range was about 3,000–3,500 kilometers (we should always keep in mind that ...