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09-10-2020, 05:45 PM #1
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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09-10-2020, 05:56 PM #2Registered User
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It's possible Kim Jong Un sold him a bunch of photoshops.
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09-10-2020, 06:20 PM #3Registered User
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You'll find them on the snowmaking guns at Cloudmont Ski and Golf Resort!
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09-10-2020, 07:03 PM #4Registered User
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RPN: Rocket Propelled Nuke, from a shoulder launcher, as in Starship Troopers ("NUKE THE BASTARDS!!")
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09-10-2020, 07:14 PM #5
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
Launcher Edit
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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09-10-2020, 07:18 PM #6man of ice
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sweet cut and paste on antique weapons systems
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09-10-2020, 07:20 PM #7
The first about new nukes....
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09-10-2020, 08:35 PM #8
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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09-10-2020, 08:40 PM #9
Nukes that look like rodents?
"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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09-11-2020, 06:46 AM #10
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09-11-2020, 09:51 AM #12
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09-11-2020, 09:55 AM #13Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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09-11-2020, 10:01 AM #15Registered User
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The doomsday machine?
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09-11-2020, 11:43 AM #16
Why not drop nukes on all these forest fires? Surprised Trump hasn't suggested this already? He would certainly love to nuke California.
"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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09-11-2020, 12:23 PM #18
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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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09-11-2020, 03:37 PM #20"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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09-11-2020, 03:41 PM #21
Can I buy one? Asking for a friend.
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09-11-2020, 06:15 PM #22Registered User
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Nanobots be makin' nanonukes
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09-11-2020, 06:19 PM #23
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