{"id":185774,"date":"2014-08-18T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/18\/israels-nuclear-armed-ssg\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T02:22:00","slug":"israels-nuclear-armed-ssg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/18\/israels-nuclear-armed-ssg\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Nuclear Armed SSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GDMCMvg.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GDMCMvg.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>It looks like it&#8217;s designed to sit on the sea floor  <\/i><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/war-is-boring\/israels-quiet-killer-submarines-are-almost-ready-3adff7c1279f\">Dolphin II class submarine<\/a>, and in addition to being <b>really<\/b> ugly, it has 10 torpedo tubes, 6 of the standard 21 inch (533 mm) size, and 4 with a 26 inch (650 mm) tubes.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious question is why the Dolphin II might need larger tubes, and the obvious answer is that it is used to launch the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popeye_%28missile%29#Popeye_Turbo_SLCM\">Popeye Turbo submarine launched cruise missle<\/a>, which is alleged to have a 1500 km range, though it could also be used to deploy relatively large mines<\/p>\n<p>As such, this constitutes a fairly formidable 2<sup>nd<\/sup> strike capability with nuclear weapons, along with the ability to launch conventional strikes at a fairly long range.<\/p>\n<p>When combined with its AIP (<b>A<\/b>ir <b>I<\/b>ndependent <b>P<\/b>ropulsion) system, which uses liquid oxygen and methanol reacted into hydrogen, which can allow for the boat to remain submerged for up to a month.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this assumes that Israel has nuclear weapons, but this assumes that Israel has nuclear weapons, which it neither conforms nor denies.&nbsp; (Yeah.right)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it&#8217;s designed to sit on the sea floor It&#8217;s the Dolphin II class submarine, and in addition to being really ugly, it has 10 torpedo tubes, 6 of the standard 21 inch (533 mm) size, and 4 with a 26 inch (650 mm) tubes. The obvious question is why the Dolphin II &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1161,1044,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-naval","category-nuclear-weapons","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}