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For better or worse, the US seems to be trying to make ballistic missiles unambiguously nuclear platforms and hypersonic weapons (and aero ballistic tactical weapons) explicitly conventional. The US boost/gliders are likely too small for a nuclear warhead to be practical; it’s hard to see how the SWERVE style glider could carry even the smallest warhead and the TBG glider depictions to date seem to explicitly rule out anything larger than a bursting charge to scatter glider fragments already with a high amount of KE.Of course Russia and China subscribe to a more ambiguous deployment scheme.
For better or worse, the US seems to be trying to make ballistic missiles unambiguously nuclear platforms and hypersonic weapons (and aero ballistic tactical weapons) explicitly conventional. The US boost/gliders are likely too small for a nuclear warhead to be practical; it’s hard to see how the SWERVE style glider could carry even the smallest warhead and the TBG glider depictions to date seem to explicitly rule out anything larger than a bursting charge to scatter glider fragments already with a high amount of KE.
Of course Russia and China subscribe to a more ambiguous deployment scheme.
