Why are ICBMs so expensive.

[AlecTrevylan00]

saying that the SU fell cuz they paid for nukes is a gross simplification

[asleepathewheel]

Re: Re: Re: Why are ICBMs so expensive.

Originally posted by Carver


A few weeks ago someone posted a way to make ICBMs mobile and even load them onto subs - thus giving the full SLBM effect of subs that can nuke any city on Earth. But I don't remember how .

Thats a cool idea

Here is what I wish were possible:

ICBMs would be vulnerable to nuclear attacks
Airbases could house ICBMs

Thus, you could have a limited nuclear war, just to take out the opponent's missles, but leave the cities. Would be fun for me in MP (if games lasted that long) or in scenarios.

alas....

[Iron Chancellor]

Originally posted by AlecTrevylan00
saying that the SU fell cuz they paid for nukes is a gross simplification

Of course it is. The USSR fell because it didn't have the economic power to back its military, and it couldn't tax the private sector because there was no private sector. The arms race was a huge drain on the USSR's resources, and basically kept the USSR from spending money on more intelligent projects like build infrastructure, investment, etc.

[Myrddin]

The USSR did not fail for economic reasons but for political reasons - the people stopped believing in it, and with less repression they stopped pretending that they believed in it

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Myrddin
The USSR did not fail for economic reasons but for political reasons - the people stopped believing in it, and with less repression they stopped pretending that they believed in it

But first the Administration had to change, to bring the political System of the USSR to fall. It was Michail Gorbatschow, who introduced Glasnost and Perestroika and opened the USSR to the West. Gorbatschow wanted to renew the Communism and make it more human, thus preventing the collapse of the USSR.
But de facto his Reforms gave the People the freedom to express their displeasure about the Communism and demonstrate freely and at last made the USSR a Democracy.

[HazieDaVampire]

And a nuke in civ3 can blow up more % of the whole world than a one in real life!

[AlecTrevylan00]

in civ2, on a real world map, i filled the inside of the US up with airfields and put my nukes in them, cuz the bad guys, when they attacked, always ignored airfields. I'd leave 1 or 2 nukes in cities so that they would nuke them and airattack them and during a war they would ignore the airfield and just do cities, becuz they thought it would slow their conquest once they had used nukes

[Panag]

Re: Re: Why are ICBMs so expensive.

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior


No, they had thousands of warheads, not thousands of ICBMs.

hi ,

found an old report on the army site , .......at one time the us had more then 8500 icbms , ..........
with a total of more then 70 000 warheads , .....

have a nice day

[Panag]

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
And a nuke in civ3 can blow up more % of the whole world than a one in real life!

hi ,

if you look at some of the modern ones , like the french ones today , ....... well thats 50 times hiro and naga together , .....

have a nice day