You can follow him on Twitter: Creative Commons. Several thousand retired non-strategic warheads are awaiting dismantlement,” reads the FAS’s Status of World Nuclear Forces.ĭave Majumdar is the defense editor for the National Interest. “All are declared to be in central storage. Meanwhile, Russian air defense forces have a further sixty-eight to 166 tactical nuclear weapons mounted on various surface-to-air missiles.Īnother report, this one by the Federation of American Scientists, suggests that Russia doesn’t have any deployed non-strategic nuclear weapons. The Russian navy has about 330 tactical nuclear weapons, while the Russian air force has 334 non-strategic weapons. Of those about 128-210 warheads are assigned to the Russian ground forces. However, other analyses suggest that Russia has as few as 2,000 operational tactical nuclear weapons.Ī more recent analysis by Royal United Service Institute’s Igor Sutyagin suggests that Russia has a maximum of 1,040 non-strategic nuclear weapons. While Moscow has been slowly eliminating its non-strategic arsenal since the end of the Cold War, Russia many still have as many as 4,000 tactical nuclear weapons, according to the Congressional Research Service. The Soviet Union was thought to have possessed between 15,000 and 25,000 tactical nuclear weapons of all types ranging from suitcase-sized containers and nuclear mines to short-range aircraft delivered missiles, nuclear gravity bombs and artillery shells-as well as short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missile warheads. The Russian tactical nuclear arsenal is not nearly as large as the Soviet arsenal had once been, but concrete numbers are hard to come by. In that situation, Russia might counter advancing NATO forces with its arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. After all, Moscow has expressed concerns in the past that regime change by the West is an all too real danger. (Employees and Sales figures are modelled). Doomsday Tactical LLC has 9 total employees across all of its locations and generates 1.07 million in sales (USD). Moreover, if NATO forces hit targets inside Russia or crossed over into Russian territory, Moscow might conclude that there is a danger to the existence of the state. Company Description: Doomsday Tactical LLC is located in Roanoke, VA, United States and is part of the Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers Industry. In that eventuality, Russian conventional forces-of which only a portion are well trained and well equipped-would likely be severely damaged or even destroyed. Such a rapid defeat would leave NATO with a limited number of options, all bad: a bloody counteroffensive, fraught with escalatory risk, to liberate the Baltics to escalate itself, as it threatened to do to avert defeat during the Cold War or to concede at least temporary defeat, with uncertain but predictably disastrous consequences for the Alliance and, not incidentally, the people of the Baltics.Ī NATO counter-offensive would be bloody and fraught with escalatory risk-but it’s one of the probable outcomes of a Russian invasion. While the RAND study shows that Russia would be able to take the Baltics fairly easily, the war game didn’t explore what would happen in the event of a NATO counter offensive.
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