@redx said in Nuclear thread - can we go ballistic?:
@jip said in Nuclear thread - can we go ballistic?:
It can both be implemented, but a parabola trajectory is not recommended. it means that intermediate SMDs can not intercept the missile.
Why would a ballistic parabola inherently mean that a missile could not be intercepted?
I might be wrong but it's cuz it makes it so that SMD won't have enough time to react to nukes heading to the frontal part of the SMD coverage. As instead of the nuke flying up high and then going straight down at the target, the nuke will head at angle towards the target. Lowering the time that SMD missile have to catch up to the nuke.
Basically all the SMD's would now have kinda eggshaped effective range rather than a circle.
Something like this I guess: