What is Russia's most powerful weapon?

The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба) (code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a hydrogen aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
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What is Russia's deadliest weapon?

The RS-28 Sarmat, which NATO has dubbed “Satan 2,” is considered Russia's most powerful ICBM: a super-heavy, thermonuclear-armed intercontinental-range ballistic missile.
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Does Russia have advanced weapons?

The Sarmat – dubbed 'Satan II' by Nato – is an advanced weapons delivery system capable of hitting anywhere in Europe or US with a devastating nuclear payload. It can reportedly travel more than 11,000 miles, deliver 10 tonnes of explosives and reach speeds of Mach 20.
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Does Russia have strong weapons?

Russia's claim to being the second most powerful military in the world is in part due to the amount of personnel, but the weapons are fitted with old technology. For example, Russia has the greatest number of tanks in the world, according to Global Fire Power.
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Who would win a war USA or Russia?

The USA also has an overwhelming advantage over Russia in terms of conventional forces. Russia still has incredible military might, even if it is not as large as NATO's, with more than a million active troops.
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How many tsar bombs does Russia have?

The Federation of American Scientists reports that Russia possesses 5,977 nuclear warheads, which could be considered strategic nuclear weapons.
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Can Russia run out of missiles?

Is Russia running out of missiles? Russian tactics in the first months of the war mean that their stocks of precision munitions are now seriously depleted, according to some analysts and Western officials.
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How strong is NATO compared to Russia?

The collective military capabilities of the 30 countries that make up NATO outnumber Russia in terms of aircraft, at 20,723 to 4,173, and in naval power, with 2,049 military ships, to 605. Russia's ground combat vehicle capacity is more competitive, however, with 12,420 units, to 14,682.
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Can Russian missiles reach the US?

New START limits all Russian deployed intercontinental-range nuclear weapons, including every Russian nuclear warhead that is loaded onto an intercontinental-range ballistic missile that can reach the United States in approximately 30 minutes.
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Does the US have a Tsar Bomba?

As far as we know, nobody currently has a Tsar Bomba. The Soviets only built the one that was detonated in 1961.
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What is America's strongest weapon?

The B83 nuclear bomb is the biggest device in the U.S. stockpile. It has a maximum delivery of 1.2 megatons – that's 1.2 million tons of TNT. This is 80 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War Two. The B83 weighs 1.5 tons and entered service in 1983.
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Can you block a nuclear bomb?

The short answer is yes, nuclear bombs can be intercepted, albeit quite difficult to do. Ballistic missiles are used to deliver nuclear bombs in a flight trajectory. To counter ballistic missiles, the Soviet Union developed anti-ballistic missiles in the 1960s in the thick of the Nuclear Arms Race to protect the USSR.
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How many tanks does Russia have left?

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The Military Balance, the Russians have 2,800 tanks and 13,000 other armored vehicles (reconnaissance and infantry fighting vehicles) in units with another 10,000 tanks and 8,500 armored vehicles in storage.
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How many Russian tanks have been destroyed?

A senior US defense official estimated that Russia has lost nearly 1,000 tanks, among other combat assets. The official noted that Russia still has a lot of capability that could be brought into the conflict.
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How big is Russia's biggest nuke?

The resulting weapon weighed 27 tons, with a length of some 26 feet (8 metres) and a diameter of about 7 feet (2 metres). Although officially known as RDS-220, it acquired numerous nicknames, most notably Tsar Bomba in the West.
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How many nukes would it take to destroy the world?

This is why another study had been conducted in 2018 testing a similar scenario that also concluded that it would take 100 nuclear bombs to end this world. What is scarier is that within this world there are 13,080 ready-to-use nuclear warheads and yet it takes such a small amount.
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Is Russia stronger than the UK?

Military Stats: compare key data on Russia & United Kingdom. Statistically, Russia outnumbers the UK armed forces. Having acquired nearly the entirety of the arsenal of the former USSR, Russia possesses weapons systems that are meant to counter the power of the world's most powerful military, the US.
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Is China allies with Russia?

Nevertheless, China and Russia currently enjoy the best relations they have had since the late 1950s. Although they have no formal alliance, the two countries do have an informal agreement to coordinate diplomatic and economic moves, and build up an alliance against the United States.
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Who has the best war technology?

Jack Keane said the U.S. is "overall superior to Russia in military capability on the ground, in the air and at sea." "However in last two decades, Russia has worked on improving their military systems and have a number of excellent capabilities – which the U.S. has, as well," Keane added.
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Can the US be invaded?

Geographic feasibility. Many experts have considered the US impossible to invade because of its major industries, reliable and fast supply lines, large geographical size, geographic location, population size, and difficult regional features.
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