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The US has no need to do a FOBS (over-the-South Pole) attack. Russia is doing so to avoid the US missile defense specifically GBI and the BMEWs line. Russia does not have an equivalent missile defense system, its current ABM is point defense and doesn't care what direction the ICBMs are coming from and Russia has radars looking south (concerned with China and to a lesser extend Pakistan and Israel). Going over the South pole just increases complexity and decrease the payload size.There's also no need for "stealth" propellants for a retaliatory system. What are you trying to hide? Besides the amount of energy release required for an ICBM is near impossible to hide. That is a huge amount of thermal energy and in order to have "smokeless" propellants (that are not truly stealth) you have to drop the metal component of the propellant and by extension a significant drop in performance.I think it will have the capability like MM3 of being upload with 3 warheads but most likely will only be deployed with one. Which also means the post-boost vehicle can be made smaller and lighter.
The US has no need to do a FOBS (over-the-South Pole) attack. Russia is doing so to avoid the US missile defense specifically GBI and the BMEWs line. Russia does not have an equivalent missile defense system, its current ABM is point defense and doesn't care what direction the ICBMs are coming from and Russia has radars looking south (concerned with China and to a lesser extend Pakistan and Israel). Going over the South pole just increases complexity and decrease the payload size.
There's also no need for "stealth" propellants for a retaliatory system. What are you trying to hide? Besides the amount of energy release required for an ICBM is near impossible to hide. That is a huge amount of thermal energy and in order to have "smokeless" propellants (that are not truly stealth) you have to drop the metal component of the propellant and by extension a significant drop in performance.
I think it will have the capability like MM3 of being upload with 3 warheads but most likely will only be deployed with one. Which also means the post-boost vehicle can be made smaller and lighter.
