particularly inportsnt for non -central strategic employrnent ' \2" The Soveit Union has soue ?oO MRBl4s and IRA4S deployed botb in the l.'estern us$R and east of the urals, Among then is the ne,t'l', xrobile ss-20 rnissile with a 3..MIRV payload. It is believed that over 100 of these have been deployed so far" Also the USSR possesses about !00 mediu,n-range bombers, e.8, of the types Tu-15 'Badger ana fu-eei,l rr3ackf ire r', capable of nuclear delivery' On the United StatJs side there are 65 rg-ffrn rnerlium-range bombers and 300''l+00 forwartl based short-range, nuclear capable strike aircraft of types f-\, F-111 an'l others " The United States arsenal has no IRBMS. I. g!Ig!S€_l,c^?{e_e!elg-eq--gthel gorrn-trfg-s- \3. Britain has \ nuclear balfistic missile subnarines, each with 15 Polaris A-3 missiles (3xeoo m. not inalependentfy targetable) " with an operational radius of about 3.,000 km. Ttle vul-c an bomber fleet, fofltreTly considereil as a strategic nuclear component, is no longer l-isted as such in available souTces. Tt has been reported recently thah the British Government has decided to buy the Anerican Trident C-l+ subroarine-l-aunched. baLl"istic nissile" lrhich lritl be equi?ped. with British "cheval- ine" narheade . l+l+. France possesses at present 6l.l SLm'{s in lr nuclear-povered subrnarines, 18 IRBMS and 5 squadrons of some 30 l.{irage-IVA nerlium-range bombers. A fifth SLBM subnar ine is scheduleat to be operationel before 1985. The SLBMs have about a 5"000 "kn range and 1-Mt single warheads ' the IRBM6, a range of some 3'0oo kn' and single warheads of l-50 kt. yield' L5, China is estimated to have deployed 50 to ?O intermediate range ballistic missiles.. l+O to 5O medium-range ballistic roissi].es, and tvo lirnited-range ICRI{s' A flight test of a chinese ICBM was conducted in the nid.dl-e of May 1p80. Also in
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing military capabilities and strategic assets of various countries, including the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France, and China. It describes the types and numbers of missiles, bombers, and submarines, as well as their ranges and payload capacities. This suggests that the text is related to national defense and security.

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