Talk:AIF/@comment-12494172-20151203033254/@comment-27797576-20151203121844

Just an FYI, Oi, ICBM's only do their achievable speed in sub-orbit or areas with very thin atmosphere. That means on reentry, the warheads(Not the actual missile, as all the stages are discarded by the time it reaches the target) will slow down to around mach 10-13. If it does use a stage at the target, it isn't really an ICBM(and even then, it still won't go much faster than the afformented speed). Also, the speed of the ICBM more or less doesn't matter. Why? Because almost all ICBM's are nuclear. No matter the speed the warheads are at, all that speed is neutralized when the warhead detonates, which means a nuclear warhead will never inflict kenetic damage, because they never hit the ground upon detonation. And AP ICBM's.... are pretty pointless. Your range would be crippled trying to make a missile of any kind into armor peircing, and in the case of the ICBM, it would have to remain on a trajectory that maximizes the ability, making it stay in the troposphere or statosphere to achieve it, plus needing to have the rocket motors firing when coming towards the target.