Weapons Against Tu-95: Where did the American Bomarc SCR with 800 km (photo) go
In their material, Defense Express experts noted that no modern air defense system in the world has such a distance of interception that makes history with Bomarc especially interesting against the background of current threats by the strategic aviation of the Russian Federation. Bomarc rockets were in service from 1959 to 1972 in the United States and Canada and were intended to protect North America from massive Soviet aviation raids.
At that time, the development of military technologies did not allow the necessary accuracy in the defeat of the goal, using a "conventional" warhead. Therefore, the main way to achieve high efficiency at such distances was to use nuclear warrior. Each rocket was equipped with a charge of WT-40 with a capacity of 7-10 kilotonnes, and the damage to the targets, including Tu-95, was to be ensured thanks to a powerful air shock wave during a blasting near the target-even if there is 800 meters away.
The anti -aircraft complex weighed more than 7 tons and launched from protected stationary positions. Their task is to destroy the target group with one nuclear undermined on the approaches to the United States. Bomarc rockets began in 1964, when it became apparent that the main threat to safety now pointed out intercontinental ballistic missiles, not bombers. Until 1972, the program was completely closed, and the remaining missiles were used as targets in the training of US air defense forces.
As a result, by the early 1980s, the entire Bomarc line was written off and destroyed. Bomarc missiles were produced in two versions: experts emphasized that today no country uses interceptors with such range-it is because of the abandonment of nuclear warheads in airborne systems and the inability to provide the necessary accuracy at such distances by conventional means of guidance.