While an 800kT warhead is more powerful than a 550kT warhead, it’s not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. The 20 megaton warhead isn’t going to be your bunker buster, either. It’ll be a field killer, given that there are small numbers in service, or alternatively a city killer. The silo/bunker killers will be the most accurate weapons typically. Back in the 60s and 70s you would have used a bigger warhead for a silo/bunker killer to get over accuracy issues, but nowadays you don’t need such a warhead for that purpose. Significant accuracy increases mean that you can put a much smaller warhead close enough to a hardened silo or bunker to get a kill.

City destruction is much better with MIRVs littering an area.

The 20MT warheads are specifically for hard targets. The SS-18 new mods are sufficiently accurate for this.

Hahaha yeah the free world guided by the US, insured by guided munitions which kill the local populace at weddings and what not. :rolleyes:

Well, you would think the Russian would make there best customer (India) a priority…..you’d think!:rolleyes:

Or you would think that they would let themselves (their actual best customer) take priority. Durr.. :rolleyes:

Well, if the members of the forum had a dollar for every Russian promise. We would all be rich…………..Just ask the Indians.:(

I didn’t know the Russians were Indians.

What sort of lack of logic is this? (On your part, now I’ll let you figure it out)

What the Russians could easily do is shoot a group of nuclear armed missiles in first, have them air burst detonate at a safe yet effective EMP range perhaps – crippling the CVBG’s ability to detect anything, then pummel away with the rest of the payload.

Can you throw us some proof to that claim?

Pogosyan, while at the UK airshow with the F-22, said that “while the SU-35BM isn’t a match for the Raptor, the PAK-FA will be.”

He also claimed he wasn’t impressed by its maneuverability, and said the Su-35BM matched it there.

any of these aircraft still viable today’s environment and in the next 15 years?
seeing as how everyone is drifting to multirole..

MiG-31
Tornado ADV
Tornado Gr.4
Tornado ECR
Su-34
JH-7
F-2
Growler

The MiG-31BM and Su-34 are multi-role. The MiG-31BM might not be a dogfighter, but is quite amazing in an anti-radar role and remain feasible for high speed intercepts. The Su-34 retains much of the maneuverability of the Su-27 series, so it can be used for A2A in a pinch.

By Growler you mean EW Hornet? Then that’s a dedicated platform for electronic warfare, and that’s not going anywhere anytime soon.