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    What's the new nuclear weapon system?

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/polit...ity/index.html

    My guess is that it's a nuclear device the size of a coffee thermos. Can be launched from a Howitzer, a tank, carried on a drone, or fired from a plane. If need be, can be thrown like a grenade. Unfortunately, even if you are a pro QB, you are going to die.

    As an added bonus, it will actually keep your coffee hot for 1,000 years.
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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    It's possible Kim Jong Un sold him a bunch of photoshops.

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    You'll find them on the snowmaking guns at Cloudmont Ski and Golf Resort!

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    RPN: Rocket Propelled Nuke, from a shoulder launcher, as in Starship Troopers ("NUKE THE BASTARDS!!")

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    Sweet polyass thread in the padded room

    The M-388 round used a version of the Mk-54 warhead, a very small sub-kiloton fission device. The Mk-54 weighed about 51 pounds (23 kg), with a yield equivalent to somewhere between 10 and 20 tons of TNT—close to the minimum practical size for a fission warhead,[Note 1] and comparable in yield to the largest conventional bombs developed at the time.[Note 2] The only selectable feature with either version of the Davy Crockett (M28 & M29) was the height-of-burst switch on the warhead. The complete round weighed 76 pounds (34 kg). It was 31 inches (79 cm) long with a diameter of 11 inches (28 cm) at its widest point; a subcaliber piston at the back of the shell was inserted into the launcher's barrel for firing.[1] The M-388 atomic projectile was mounted on the barrel-inserted spigot via bayonet slots. Once the propellant was discharged the spigot became the launching piston for the M-388 atomic projectile: this was necessary because the fission round could not be subject to high acceleration and the spigot/piston, acting as a "pusher tube", facilitated this.[2]

    The nuclear yield is hinted at in FM 9-11: Operation and Employment of the Davy Crockett Battlefield Missile, XM-28/29 (June 1963).

    Versions of the W54 warhead were also used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition project and the AIM-26A Falcon.

    Mk-54 (Davy Crockett): 10 or 20 ton yield, Davy Crockett Gun warhead
    B54 (SADM): potentially 10 tons to 1 kiloton in the different models, Special Atomic Demolition Munition device
    W-54: 250 ton yield, warhead for AIM-26 Falcon air-to-air missile
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    A Davy Crockett casing preserved in the United States Army Ordnance Museum
    The M-388 could be launched from either of two launchers known as the Davy Crockett Weapon System(s): the 4.7-inch (120 mm) M28, with a range of about 1.25 miles (2.01 km), or the 6.1-inch (150 mm) M29, with a range of 2.5 miles (4.0 km). Both weapons used the same projectile, and were either mounted on a tripod launcher transported by an M113 armored personnel carriers, or they were carried by a Jeep (the M-38, and later the M-151).

    The Jeep was equipped with an attached launcher for the M28 or the M29, as required, whereas the Davy Crockett carried by an armored personnel carrier was set up in the field on a tripod away from the carrier. Weapons assigned to infantry units were carried in M113s, those allocated to airborne units were carried on Jeeps.[3]

    The Davy Crocketts were operated by a five-man crew, the squad consisting of a Commander, Gunner, Assistant Gunner, Loader and Computer. It was possible to break the smaller M28 weapon into five loads that could be carried by the crew.[4] Operating the M28 or M29 versions of the weapon with a three-man crew was also possible.[5]

    In the 3rd Armored Division in Germany in the 1960s many Davy Crockett Sections (all of which were in the Heavy Mortar Platoons, in Headquarters Companies of Infantry or Armor Maneuver Battalions) received what became a mix of M28 & M29 launchers [e.g., one of each per D/C section]. Eventually, the M28s were replaced by M29s, so that both the armored personnel carriers and the Jeeps carried the M29.
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    sweet cut and paste on antique weapons systems

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    The first about new nukes....

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    sweet cut and paste on antique weapons systems
    54 pound nukes

    60 years ago

    Figured a Wikipedia post might make fake news more believable

    These days I find DEW to be more interesting. I would love to know the cutting edge shit they won’t disclose. Maybe orange man can use that on the next hurricane instead of a coffee thermos nuke
    . . .

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    Nukes that look like rodents?

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    pretty sure he scored an oscar for that role
    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    Nukes that look like rodents?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    Sweet Tech Talk thread in the padded room .......
    You seem confused, so I straightened you out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PB View Post
    You seem confused, so I straightened you out.
    Apparently you didn’t click the link.

    CNN politics op Ed. Orange man dumb, wants to nuke hurricanes.

    Most old men yell at clouds. Drumpf goes bigly by nuking hurricanes.
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/polit...ity/index.html

    My guess is that it's a nuclear device the size of a coffee thermos. Can be launched from a Howitzer, a tank, carried on a drone, or fired from a plane. If need be, can be thrown like a grenade. Unfortunately, even if you are a pro QB, you are going to die.

    As an added bonus, it will actually keep your coffee hot for 1,000 years.
    oh man, good laugh...thanks. I forgot about that line "the problem with the revolutionary war is that they didn't have enough airports"

    There's been so many...how to fix a hurricane "drop a nuke on it". Just amazing.
    Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    Apparently you didn’t click the link.

    CNN politics op Ed. Orange man dumb, wants to nuke hurricanes.

    Most old men yell at clouds. Drumpf goes bigly by nuking hurricanes.
    Guilty as charged.

    But for your post: tech talk Jong.

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    The doomsday machine?

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    Why not drop nukes on all these forest fires? Surprised Trump hasn't suggested this already? He would certainly love to nuke California.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    Why not drop nukes on all these forest fires? Surprised Trump hasn't suggested this already? He would certainly love to nuke California.
    Well a large enough bomb would put them out, and it is California..

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    Quote Originally Posted by east or bust View Post
    Well a large enough bomb would put them out, and it is California..
    Do svidaniya
    Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that

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    They have gotten a lot smaller but you are still going to need 20# of plutonium, a c4 trigger and a lot of shielding to keep it from going off when the wind blows.

    A linear style could be as small as 5" x 24" but figure its going to be 75#+.

    Its going to look like the c4 is smashing a doughnut of plutonium, onto a plunger of plutonium to hit critical mass for fission. That design is 75 years old.

    This is would be a pretty sketchy way to do it though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by exsparky View Post
    They have gotten a lot smaller but you are still going to need 20# of plutonium, a c4 trigger and a lot of shielding to keep it from going off when the wind blows.

    A linear style could be as small as 5" x 24" but figure its going to be 75#+.

    Its going to look like the c4 is smashing a doughnut of plutonium, onto a plunger of plutonium to hit critical mass for fission. That design is 75 years old.

    This is would be a pretty sketchy way to do it though.
    I'm sure the nuclear physicists have figured out ways to shrink things. So, maybe not a nuclear device the size of a coffee thermos, but maybe the size of 5 gallon propane tank?
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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    Can I buy one? Asking for a friend.

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    Nanobots be makin' nanonukes

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    Quote Originally Posted by PB View Post
    Guilty as charged.

    But for your post: tech talk Jong.
    Guilty as charged


    Quote Originally Posted by beer30 View Post
    The doomsday machine?
    What good is a doomsday machine if you don’t tell anyone about it?
    #strangelove
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by riser3 View Post
    Can I buy one? Asking for a friend.
    I'm sure Putin will take your Bitcoin. Whether you get the nuke and not end up getting scammed is a whole different matter.
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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