"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message

And the Genie's kill radius is not that large.

Are you factoring in EMP with that kill radius?

If air-to-air tacnukes worked really well, they'd still be around.
They didn't, so they aren't.

I don't know if that's entirely accurate. The role of air-to-air tacnukes
wasn't "versus fighters". If it had been, I'm sure something more than a
"point, pull, and pray" type of firing mechanism would've been used.
Proximity detection, SARH and that sort of thing would've been incorporated.

Air to air tacnukes were designed to be fired at formations of slow,
lumbering Soviet bombers coming across the DEW line, not fast, agile
fighters. As the technology and indeed the political climate changed, the
role of the Genie began to diminish. Also, political and military
leadership I think probably grew less and less cavalier about throwing
around a few nukes here and there just to even up the odds. I'm sure that
today, a Genie would be just as effective versus a Tu-22 as it would've
versus grouped formations of Bear bombers.

The willingness to use it, however, is a different matter.

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