How long will WW3 last with ONLY conventional weapons? And who wins? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 46605000 Canada 09/09/2013 10:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if no nukes are ever used then how long can it last? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33689832 usa, uk, europe vs china, russia and arabs. who do you think will win with only using conventional weapons. Until the gas runs out or something blows up the Saudi Oil wells and flatten the Oil sands in Canada. Then, once the gas runs out, then the nukes come out. I believe the last estimates were two weeks if a World War broke out. THink the world consumes alot of oil now? Wait until all the military equipment is rolled out for 200 million men and women. There would be only one option left...nukes. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27337211 United States 09/09/2013 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if no nukes are ever used then how long can it last? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33689832 usa, uk, europe vs china, russia and arabs. who do you think will win with only using conventional weapons. In 1987 the Russians had about 2,500 long-range missiles, ICBM and SLBM and 9,847 warheads. The total has been reduced but they could easily re-arm 2000+ missiles with conventional multi-warhead payloads. The USA has less than 1/3 of what the Russians have. We wouldn't stand a chance against Russia in a MISSLE to Missile shootout. Why do ya think Reagan wanted to develop a StarWars Laser system? Its because we are out gunned over 2 to 1. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 46488057 Australia 09/09/2013 11:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It would probably last 4-6 years. American air power would last as long as its carriers, which would eventually be sunk by a combination of Silkworm and Iskander missiles (notwithstanding the occasional lucky sub). The US has a big economy and some kick ass hardware but it would soon find itself struggling to procure the necessary funds in a tanking economy. In the event of war Russia and China would dump their holdings of US debt while the Arabs strangle the oil supply. It would be a painful start to any hypothetical conflict like this that involves these players. In the end it would come down to WHERE the war is being fought. If it was in Asia then the US would be horribly outnumbered and outgunned. If it was on North American soil, the US would have the odds in its favour and the help of Canada. In a nuclear war, Russia would win with sheer warhead numbers and land-mass size. Then again, the world would be uninhabitable afterwards. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25687053 United States 09/10/2013 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if no nukes are ever used then how long can it last? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33689832 usa, uk, europe vs china, russia and arabs. who do you think will win with only using conventional weapons. In 1987 the Russians had about 2,500 long-range missiles, ICBM and SLBM and 9,847 warheads. The total has been reduced but they could easily re-arm 2000+ missiles with conventional multi-warhead payloads. The USA has less than 1/3 of what the Russians have. We wouldn't stand a chance against Russia in a MISSLE to Missile shootout. Why do ya think Reagan wanted to develop a StarWars Laser system? Its because we are out gunned over 2 to 1. assuming a russian icbm all in strike So when a couple hundred nuke reactors all go critical meltdown in the western countries. All that radiation shit blows where ? Tens of thousands of oil wells all spewing oil on land/sea cause there is no way to shut them off. All that stuff goes where ? Natural gas is toxic , explosive and has no smell in its natural state. So all that again goes where ? LOL the russians nuke us and by proxy meltdowns nuke themselves a short while later . Most of america would be a toxic wasteland afterwards as well. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5373869 Canada 09/11/2013 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It would probably last 4-6 years. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46488057 American air power would last as long as its carriers, which would eventually be sunk by a combination of Silkworm and Iskander missiles (notwithstanding the occasional lucky sub). The US has a big economy and some kick ass hardware but it would soon find itself struggling to procure the necessary funds in a tanking economy. In the event of war Russia and China would dump their holdings of US debt while the Arabs strangle the oil supply. It would be a painful start to any hypothetical conflict like this that involves these players. In the end it would come down to WHERE the war is being fought. If it was in Asia then the US would be horribly outnumbered and outgunned. If it was on North American soil, the US would have the odds in its favour and the help of Canada. In a nuclear war, Russia would win with sheer warhead numbers and land-mass size. Then again, the world would be uninhabitable afterwards. And to think that's what we just risked. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 43559948 United States 09/12/2013 05:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | potentially forever, and who would win.... almost impossible to predict, urban and jungle warfare in asia and middle east and africa would go on forever. America air power would probably be able to gain air superiority over china to considerably degrade the ability of its ridiculously huge ground army. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 46353517 United States 09/12/2013 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm pretty much counting on it. You are talking a bunch of paper champion losers who don't know anything but to do what their handlers tell them. That's why Putin is like the rest of us....wtf I really have to nuke you scumbags? Whatever at this point, the radiation speeds up natural selection. We are definitely at that point where I would know SHTF, before S actually HTF. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 32069520 United States 10/14/2013 10:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if no nukes are ever used then how long can it last? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33689832 usa, uk, europe vs china, russia and arabs. who do you think will win with only using conventional weapons. In 1987 the Russians had about 2,500 long-range missiles, ICBM and SLBM and 9,847 warheads. The total has been reduced but they could easily re-arm 2000+ missiles with conventional multi-warhead payloads. The USA has less than 1/3 of what the Russians have. We wouldn't stand a chance against Russia in a MISSLE to Missile shootout. Why do ya think Reagan wanted to develop a StarWars Laser system? Its because we are out gunned over 2 to 1. We're getting close to having laser weapons... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32069520 United States 10/14/2013 10:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It would probably last 4-6 years. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46488057 American air power would last as long as its carriers, which would eventually be sunk by a combination of Silkworm and Iskander missiles (notwithstanding the occasional lucky sub). The US has a big economy and some kick ass hardware but it would soon find itself struggling to procure the necessary funds in a tanking economy. In the event of war Russia and China would dump their holdings of US debt while the Arabs strangle the oil supply. It would be a painful start to any hypothetical conflict like this that involves these players. In the end it would come down to WHERE the war is being fought. If it was in Asia then the US would be horribly outnumbered and outgunned. If it was on North American soil, the US would have the odds in its favour and the help of Canada. In a nuclear war, Russia would win with sheer warhead numbers and land-mass size. Then again, the world would be uninhabitable afterwards. [link to www.spacedaily.com] Well, US Navy is supposed to have laser weapon ready in 2014... that could be the difference seeing that laser moves at the speed of light and could potentially easily counterattack Silkworm and others. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 47686690 Argentina 10/19/2013 04:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who wins? None With much of the infrastructure damaged, destroyed or inoperative, famine, lack of fuel, and so on.....conventional WW wars (not nuclear) will burn themselves down. Too big of a planet, for tiny ants (humans) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1018748 United States 10/21/2013 03:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First OP, it would not stay conventional for long... it would eventually go nuke once side X started to lose... after the first launch, you have about 20-25 minutes depending on launch origin. After that, 50% out right die, others follow in days/weeks due to illness, disease, etc. Within a few months 98% dead. Those that survive would inherit a world (assuming they did not launch Omega devices) of misery...eventuality is that 100% of life would die... thus proxy wars will only be fought, chances of WWx escalating to the point of no return is too great... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1018748 United States 10/21/2013 04:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | China by a landslide. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48061882 Undetectable subs that just piss about off the coast of LA Billions of the fuckers for a land invasion. Job done. Unless they are packed like pickup trucks (like our neighbor to the South - Mexico), I don't think you are getting billions of chinese on subs... |