I wonder if they figured the elevation in Mils or Moa
20 Second hang time.
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I’ll see your nuclear artillery and raise you a nuclear bazooka.....
Fun fact:
That round was one-point safe until you loaded it into the gun. Then, the extra tamping from the barrel steel would start the fissionables towards criticality.
We have a member here....
And to that, I could be wrong but.... there's the possiblity that one of the people in that video linked above, was a member here. Long ago, not sure if he still is.
And to that, I could be wrong but.... there's the possiblity that one of the people in that video linked above, was a member here. Long ago, not sure if he still is.
Interesting, so once you slammed it into the canon there was no "Lets think this over."
I wonder if the nuclear trigger was made by.....wait for it....
Kidd.
I give you the ultimate WMD, that will stop any advancing Army in its tracks. First created in 1962, and has been deployed several times. Its been know to cause great damage..
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I demand that you acknowledge my choice of the second tier option!
I'm sure others do too, but it's not for me to disclose. That's up to them. I'll just say that we have a 'more eclectic' membership than most actually grasp.
Or at least 'have had'.
I heard that the Polish military experimented with atomic hand grenades but have yet to see video confirmation.
the neat thing is any less hang time and the people who fired it would be vaporized after firing it lol .
That was the fun part about the light version of the jeep / luggable Davy Crockett.
It had this dial a hurt thing and if you dialed maximum hurt, on flat ground the effective radius was greater than the delivery radius.
But hey you are driving along and crest the hill and there is a full soviet tank formation, well give them hell on the way out and see if you make it back over the hill before it goes off...
Oh hey, I know a thing or two about Upshot-Knothole Grable. In fact, I have a print of a frame from the Lookout Mountain team footage signed by the cameraman Jack Cannon. Yeah, Cannon.
heard about the Mk-23 16” projectile for the IOWA class Battleships?
A total of fifty Mark 23 "Katie" nuclear projectiles were produced during the 1950s with development starting in 1952 and the first service projectile being delivered in October 1956. It is possible that the W23 nuclear warhead used for this projectile may have been installed inside of an otherwise unaltered HC Mark 13 shell body, although one of the sources listed below says that the projectile was slightly smaller than the Mark 13. USS Iowa, USS New Jersey and USS Wisconsin had an alteration made to Turret II magazine to incorporate a secure storage area for these projectiles. USS Missouri was not so altered as she had been placed in reserve in 1955. This secure storage area could contain ten nuclear shells plus nine Mark 24 practice shells. These nuclear projectiles were all withdrawn from service by October 1962 with none ever having been fired from a gun. One projectile was expended as part of Operation Plowshare (the peaceful use of nuclear explosive devices) and the rest were deactivated. USS Wisconsin did fire one of the practice shells during a test in 1957. It is not clear whether or not any of the battleships ever actually carried a nuclear device onboard, as the US Navy routinely refuses to confirm or deny which ships carry nuclear weapons. At least one Mark 23 shell body still exists at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as can be seen in the photograph below.
The Mark 23 was a further development of the Army's Mk-9 & Mk-19 280mm artillery shell. This was a 15-20 kiloton nuclear warhead adapted to a 16 in naval shell used on the 4 Iowa Class Battleships. While the USN had capable aircraft and missiles to use in the delivery of nuclear weapons, their thought was that the Mk 23/Mark 7 16in/50caliber cannon combination was extremely accurate and usable in any weather condition compared to early jet aircraft and missile technology. 50 weapons were produced starting in 1956 but shortly after their introduction the four Iowa's were mothballed. The weapon stayed in the nuclear inventory until October 1962. There is no known case of the weapon ever being deployed to an operational battleship.
A total of fifty Mark 23 "Katie" nuclear projectiles were produced during the 1950s with development starting in 1952 and the first service projectile being delivered in October 1956. It is possible that the W23 nuclear warhead used for this projectile may have been installed inside of an otherwise unaltered HC Mark 13 shell body, although one of the sources listed below says that the projectile was slightly smaller than the Mark 13. USS Iowa, USS New Jersey and USS Wisconsin had an alteration made to Turret II magazine to incorporate a secure storage area for these projectiles. USS Missouri was not so altered as she had been placed in reserve in 1955. This secure storage area could contain ten nuclear shells plus nine Mark 24 practice shells. These nuclear projectiles were all withdrawn from service by October 1962 with none ever having been fired from a gun. One projectile was expended as part of Operation Plowshare (the peaceful use of nuclear explosive devices) and the rest were deactivated. USS Wisconsin did fire one of the practice shells during a test in 1957. It is not clear whether or not any of the battleships ever actually carried a nuclear device onboard, as the US Navy routinely refuses to confirm or deny which ships carry nuclear weapons. At least one Mark 23 shell body still exists at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as can be seen in the photograph below.
The Mark 23 was a further development of the Army's Mk-9 & Mk-19 280mm artillery shell. This was a 15-20 kiloton nuclear warhead adapted to a 16 in naval shell used on the 4 Iowa Class Battleships. While the USN had capable aircraft and missiles to use in the delivery of nuclear weapons, their thought was that the Mk 23/Mark 7 16in/50caliber cannon combination was extremely accurate and usable in any weather condition compared to early jet aircraft and missile technology. 50 weapons were produced starting in 1956 but shortly after their introduction the four Iowa's were mothballed. The weapon stayed in the nuclear inventory until October 1962. There is no known case of the weapon ever being deployed to an operational battleship.
How about we throw in a nuclear backpack SADM? Big balls to carry one of these alone into East Germany and turn the key...
Sirhr
i’m willing to bet you i could find at least three guys that will claim to have jumped with one.
One of our company SGMs in 10th Group back in early 90s told a bunch of us a story about training with the SADM back in the 80s while we were all laying around the tarmac in our chutes. Apparently the thing weighed about as much as a small man and they had a dummy unit they would practice with that felt like a big block of cement. They initially did static line jumps to practice exits and landing with it. At one point he was on the ground rolling his chute when he heard above him “heads up!” I can’t remember if it was supposed to be like a ruck that they lowered or more likely that they would ride it in, but somehow it had come loose from a few hundred feet up and was zooming right at him. He said he started to run but fell on his face, and a split-second later the dummy device landed a short distance away with so much force that it briefly lifted him in the air enough that he caught himself in the front leaning rest position.
Wouldn't this be a blatant violation of the Geneva conventions? Not to mention the 8th amendment?
Can't go into detail, but I was in charge of all the Target Folders for the SADM in a certain Warsaw pact country. Top Secret, Atomal, NoForn Security Clearance.
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