This one is a little different. It was an air to air missile, and five guys were thrilled to stand underneath it when it went off several thousand feed above them:
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I know this is tiresome, but I find it interesting to play "what if..."
I'll get back to all science soon. No point in dynamic web logs if they don't respond dynamically to changing issues... eh?
So, what if the US wanted to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran, ASAP, either 'cause someone thinks…
A missile was, allegedly, fired off the California coast, near Los Angeles monday night, to some consternation.
It was most likely a US Navy launch of a realistic target missile for an Anti-Ballistic Missile test underway over the last few days with the Japanese Navy.
It was, most certainly,…
So the USAF took half-dozen nukes on an inadvertent roadtrip across the US heartland
careless that, but shit happens
no harm, no foul, as they say
The interesting question is why the 5th Bomb wing is shipping Air Launched Cruise Missiles to the 2nd Bomb wing?
The missiles are being decommissioned,…
Lots of food blogging around here lately, so why not re-post this one (from October 27, 2005):
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A few years back my brother went to Japan to do some fieldwork for several months. Although he had been taking Japanese for several years, the classroom…
I didn't realize there were bombs with such a small yield. All the same, there's no way in hell I'm volunteering to stand <4km away from the point of detonation.
OK, so it's more like <6km rather than 4km (the bomb's height above ground was ~18500ft, not 10000 as written up on the website) but it's still a really stupid idea to be anywhere near a nuclear blast.
Imagine if anyone actually used these air-air missiles in combat. Aside from totally screwing up radio communications for the duration of the battles, that'd be one hell of a toxic dogfight.
there were A bombs so small they were fired off a jeep with a recoilless rifle,the Davy Crockett .see it in action on Youtube.
Thanks scidogs. Suddenly the computer game "Scorched Earth" doesn't seem so funny. I wonder if any of these weapons were publicized in that era?
Wow - a nuke with the explosive yield of 2 daisy cutters and a toxicity that makes Agent Orange look timid.
Wasn't the idea behind the first generation of anti-missile missiles (nike? system) developed around the idea that the warheads of the "antis" would be small nukes? The idea was that they didn't actually need to hit the incoming warheads, just detonate near them? The idea went to pot, IIRC, when
*People decided the idea of defending against nuclear attack by detonating our own nukes above us was a bit stupid
* At the time they were developed ICBMs carried one warhead. MIRVs screwed up everything
Final question: Did any of you find the narrator's voice to be a lot creepy, especially just after detonation?