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Originally Posted by RN7
The R-36M ICBM with 8 MIRV's was retired in 1983, that's a gap of 14 years.
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Note that I originally picked the R-36M as just an example of what was possible. There's a number of missiles which
could have been used.
SLBM's
R-27U with 200kt warhead
R-29R, 3 warheads of 500kt each
R-29RK, 7 warheads, 100kt each
R-29RL, 1 warhead of 450kt
R-29RM, 4 100 kiloton warheads
R-39 Rif, 10 warheads of 100-200kt each
ICBM's
UR-100N (Mod 3), 6 warheads of 400kt
RT-2PM Topol, 1 warhead, 800kt
R-36M2 Voevoda (SS-18 Mod 5), 10 warheads of .75-1Mt
Cruise missiles
Kh-80, 200kt - 6Mt
As can be seen, there's a great variety of missiles and warheads which could be used either at the same time, or spread over a period of several days.
In fact if it was indeed an SLBM, multiple warheads becomes much
more likely.