Originally Posted by
Ninthace
I would have thought within the context of operations in the north Black Sea against a negligible maritime threat, the requirement for a nuclear warhead on an anti-shipping missile would be very low. Certainly detonation against a maritime target in comparatively shallow sea would create intense fallout.
Perhaps in retrospect, strapping 8 missiles in tubes to the outside of your ship was not the cleverest idea.
You say that. but we had nukes on board ships during the Falklands, indeed they did a ship to ship transfer mid ocean to remove some.
https://declassifieduk.org/uk-deploy...falklands-war/