Russia has the most nuclear weapons (not even counting INDIVIDUAL warheads, in which case it's much more), hundreds more than America. China has the 3rd most, and the difference between Russia and america's nukes is more than china's total individual warheads. And that's not even counting Russia's nukes in reserve/planning to be decommissioned or on standby.

Russia's nukes also have far higher yields. Most Russian nukes are in the Multi-Megaton range, as opposed to the several hundred-single megaton ranges of the US.

Pic Rel is from the UR-500 series of nukes, the most powerful ever built, more than twice as powerful as the Tsar Bomba, at 101.5 MT.

Russia also uses nearly no decoys in their ballistics, SLBMs and ICBMs. almost fully loaded with warheads, as opposed to the us only using upto 3, and the rest decoys per missile.

in terms of PURE DESTRUCTION, the ability to DESTROY MOST OTHER countries and their militaries on Earth, no matter how "advanced" they are, or if Aliens/AI were to invade the world, Russia is the most formidable for, by a significant margin.

China is far ahead of Russia. The amount spent on maintaining those nuclear weapons matters more than owning the weapons. Per nuclear weapon, China spends more on maintenance than both the US and Russia.

So to recap, Russia had more nukes than america by more than the total nukes of the 3rd most nuclear armed country, by their Individual warheads (not weapons themselves)

the us spends more on nuke upkeep than russia on its entire armed forces pre-war

Russia's Nukes are higher yields on average by many megatons

The most powerful NUkes ever built are all russian

Russia loads their ballistic missiles to the brim, with almost no decoys. America only uses 2 or 3 actual warheads, making Russia's MIRVs far more devastating

>>510624405
Most nukes are in the 100 to 800 kt range. Megaton weapons make up a tiny number of the overall stockpile because they're unnecessary. An ICBM with 4x 800 kt nukes is more effective. If you wanted to kill millions in New York but leave as little radiation as possible, that's the case for an airburst megaton bomb, but cities like New York aren't common.

>>510624018 (OP)
>The most powerful entity on Earth struggles against a second world country next door

>>510624356
>>510624290
flaggot and pole. Putin's personal piggy bank is almost a trillion in gold assets, and they didn;t have to start any nuclear programme since they inherited it all from the USSR and got the rest from ukraine. you can;t really be this retarded. MATERIEL matters. not money. the MANHATTAN PROJECT and R&D/starting over cost billoins. not upkeep and increasing stock/standard testing. with your logic North Korea, India and Pakistan could never have done it.

>>510624700
North Korea, India and Pakistan have small yield weapons and not many of them. Foreign aid likely paid for those, too.

>>510624635
THey aren;t even really trying. do you seriously think the second strongest military on earth couldn;t steamroll them if they gave 30% of their actual power? your delusional. With your logic, the usa is uganda, they couldn;t even capture vietman now could they?

>>510624574
No, most russian nukes are in the several multi megaton range. the ideal yield/weight ratio for large scale city/structure destruction in a war per sheckel is in the 1.5-5 megaton range. more than that and it's a waste, hence why TSAR bombs aren;t really a thing.
800kt is still survivable and weak tho, most cities would recover.

>>510624858
Why not? Do they like dying in a meat grinder or something?

>>510624018 (OP)
Kyieiev status?

>>510624858
Per sheckel?

>>510624816
yes, were not discussing those shitholes.

>>510624897
the chechen orks do
>>510624915
the fact that bidget and drumpf send 6 gorillion dollars a year to turn it into a US outpost slows them down too, don;t be a smartass

>>510624940
yield/weight per dollar

If aliens ever invade earth, all other countries are gonna be shidding and farding their panties BEGGING russia to nuke them all. The rest of the world just doesn;t have the nuke numbers or yields to do this. that is real power.

>>510624985
They could "take the gloves off" and finish it right now but instead they just want to slowly have men and materiel get blown to bits in some field?

Are they completely off their rocker?

>'Nuclear weaponry'? *scoff* I've seen the inside of the sun and thought it was a bit lukewarm. I've watched your empires rise and crumble, forgotten by their sons and daughters, a relic of the past, forgotten by time. How foolish are you to threaten us with your primitive toys? I look at your country and all I see is fear, and dead men.

>>510624018 (OP)
>I have a button that destroys everything 1000x over and you only have one that destroys everything 100x over
Who the fuck cares? We need the ability to take out singular Individuals now, not continents.

cool
keep me posted

>doesnt nuke Kqueef

*YAWN*

>>510625103
sometimes the grinder is more effective, long term. look how those sanctions worked out. "the russian ruble will be the zimbabwe dollar by 2 weeks." Yeah, sure thing.better to wear out JewSA's military spending, and buck break Ukraine's stamina, then finally annex at least large portions.

>P-Putin, please STOP!!

>>510624858
They should be actually trying. Why the hell would you ever do a half measure?

>>510625233
>It is better long term to have your entire military blown to bits in some field rather than finish the war right now

Oh really?

>>510625126
magic/fantasy KEKS can;t into basic maths and physics. at the moment of detonation, in the first picosedonds of a fusion reaction when the first or second stages are reflected back into the second or third chambers, the temperature is the hottest thing in the universe. second only to the big bang itself. we're talking hotter than Hypernovea, quasars, colliding supermassive black holes... by orders of magintude. the only thing hotter that we managed to achieve is in CERN.

>Russian nukes

lmao

The entire Russian military budget is the same as the US nuclear budget. 70-80% of those nukes are most likely out of order due to the extreme cost of maintaining nukes (such as replacing the tritium cores.) On top of there aren't enough delivery mechanisms (such as ICBM) for all the nukes either way and these also needs to be maintained. Haven't even accounted for the blatant corrupting but all these things will fall on deaf zigger ears. Only shitskins will believe this D tier propaganda.

nukes are fake and gay

>>510625142
the ultimate second place cuck COPE

>>510625548
>russian nukes don;t work cope
fake and gay. they have more missiles and delivery systems than any other country too.

if your so confident, why not invade russia then, huh? since they can;t even invade ukraine and don;t have any nukes... yeah, i thought so

>>510625765
>don;t
>can;t
>don;t

Post keyboard "Dutchie"

>It is better long term to drip feed our military one at a time into the meat grinder than just go in hard and finish it

t. That absolute spastic

>>510625548
The pentagon recently said Russia has the largest newest nuclear arsenal om earth, faggot.

>>510625988
exactly. why is Drumpf so insistent on "increasing the nuclear budget" if russia is no threat, and why is Chyna so desperate to "catch up"? the ABSOLUTE COPE in this thread

NOTHIGN BEATS BIG EXPLOSIONS. NO MATTER HOW ADVANCED.

>>510625529
Okay, no need to be that rude.

>>510624700
>the russian propagandist
fuck you talkimbout. a trillion in gold from the ussr? lmao

>Initially, the Bolsheviks inherited a substantial gold reserve from the Tsarist regime, but it was quickly depleted during the early years of the Soviet era due to civil war and economic instability

absolutely rekt

>>510625988
>No source
Yeah because the country reduced to motorcycle assaults and donkey logistics surely need to prioritize their nukes.

FUCK MAGIC FUCK FANTASY, SCIENCE IS THE WAY OF THE WHITE MAN.

REAL SCIENCE. SPACE TRAVEL. NUKES. GENETIC ENGINEERING. COMPUTERS.

>>510626357
meant for>>510626154

>>510626212
I dont need a source faggot shill
Everyone knows its true

Let them eat nukes

>>510624018 (OP)
The corrupt, alcoholic Russian generals in charge of the nuclear missiles honestly believed that their missiles never will be launched, and for years the West has been ringing the alarm that they have been selling dual use items on the black market. A good number of Russia's nukes will fail to launch because the hydrazine has been sold out of their propellant tanks. On others the nuclear warhead may arm but due to Soviet engineering and Russian-tier upkeep, some will probably detonate in their silos. Of the ones that do arm and launch, many will fail to reach their destination, or be meaconed off course, or have navigational failures and fall far short of their goal somewhere within Russian territory. 99% of the ones that make it to the West will be shot down by Western anti-missile systems because we've gotten really good at that. The ones that do arrive on target and make it past the defenses, some of them will fail to detonate. Russia would be damn lucky to have 2 target strikes in the first go round.

Meanwhile that strip of land between Moscow and Saint Petersburg would be saturated with the most powerful nuclear weapons the West has to offer. 15% of the population, 45% of the nation's wealth and over half the military's command and control structure will be vaporized in a matter of hours. For hundreds of years, Russians will be ashamed to say who they are and where they're from.

Russia's ancient Soviet nukes require thousands of kilos of the Tritium radioactive isotope. Tritium costs $34,000 per gram, so it is expensive to replace. It only has a half life 12.3 years, so every dozen years Moscow is spending a fortune on keeping its nukes viable. The absence of even basic Russian body armor, despite mass production, can only be attributed to Russian endemic corruption, and so there is no reason to expect that corruption will not affect everything, including the Russian nuclear arsenal.

>>510624018 (OP)
>Most powerful entity on Earth
Sure thing, lil buddy...