The award of these three important contracts marks the climax of the development of all strategic weapons involved in the new "Trinity" nuclear power construction in the United States after the B-2 1 bomber entered the engineering development stage in 20 15.
At present, the United States plans to invest about $350 billion to upgrade the "trinity" nuclear force, and a huge, three-dimensional and brand-new strategic nuclear force will appear on the earth in the near future, which will certainly have a far-reaching impact on the international nuclear situation and even the international pattern. To this end, the newspaper will launch a series of articles on "American nuclear reconstruction" to comprehensively interpret the next generation of "trinity" nuclear forces in the United States.
Sea-based nuclear forces have always been the focus of the development of nuclear powers, and their position is second to none among the "trinity" strategic nuclear forces of nuclear powers. Take the U.S. sea-based nuclear forces as an example, the number of nuclear warheads it owns exceeds 1 100, which exceeds the sum of the number of nuclear warheads owned by space-based nuclear forces and land-based nuclear forces. Ohio-class submarine is the core equipment of American sea-based nuclear forces. The Ohio-class submarine equipped with 24 Trident II-D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles has a total strike equivalent of more than 65,438+billion tons, far exceeding the total firepower released by countries in World War II. He is a veritable king in the history of human weapons.