Mr King Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 B53 Nuclear Bunker Buster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G. Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 It's nice to see that even the Russians have got the red fire extinguisher on a green vehicle thing going on. Yes, I have wondered before if the two green canisters are something different. I know there has been proposed nuclear powered tanks, but has there ever been a serious proposal to arm tanks with a nuclear round? Well, the smallest nuke projo in the US Army was 155mm. So you did have a nuclear armed tracked armored vehicle as the closest thing to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G. Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G. Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 This is the type of bomb lost off North Carolina in 1961. The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52,” I took a course at the Sandia National Labs. Boy did they have some stories. One of the instructors was the head medical officer on this recovery (he was in his 80s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) Nice pictures Paul. Thanks for sharing them. Topol-M towards the end. Watching this something occurred to me, the crews of these Soviet TEL's do not stay in the vehicle during launch do they? I realize anything outside of a test shot for Topol-M class of missiles would be end of days type stuff, but non nuke IRBM's and so forth have seen combat use. It would be a nasty bit of business if the rocket decided to give in to gravity at launch and came crashing down on the vehicle. http://youtu.be/hb6plZWdhfQ Edited December 12, 2014 by Mr King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted December 24, 2014 Author Share Posted December 24, 2014 French M51 ICBM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnm Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 How many gears dies it have in reverse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 MIRV warhead heat testing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Mannequins for a nuke test in Nevada.1953 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_8plbxmNpQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Holy shit, you can see the radiation pulse ablating stuff before the blastwave hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Nuclear bomb following a B-52 crash in North Carolina. 1961 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) That show is an interesting specimen to say the least. Minuteman I guidance computer. Edited February 18, 2015 by Mr King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 How horrible and wonderful at the same time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 How horrible and wonderful at the same time! Here Sunday, I looked up more info if you are interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 How horrible and wonderful at the same time! Here Sunday, I looked up more info if you are interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B Well, not so horrible, as it is digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Kinda terrifying that you could replace that whole thing with a garden variety microcontroller you can buy for < 100$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam_S Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Kinda terrifying that you could replace that whole thing with a garden variety microcontroller you can buy for < 100$ I think ICBM guidance computers are definitely one of those things that fall into the "if it ain't broke, don't fuck with it" category. If you knew how much of the global financial system is dependent on COBOL code dating back to the 1960's, you'd be very afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Also, that kind of discrete components should be very impervious to ionizing radiations. I am still amazed they put a hard disk drive for storing about 10kB of data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Also, that kind of discrete components should be very impervious to ionizing radiations. I am still amazed they put a hard disk drive for storing about 10kB of data. I would imagine the packaging is far more important than the component/architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 Far too upbeat a video, but great up close footage of MIRV strikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SObYcIRTlI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 Topol-M missile being loaded into a silo. Doing the same to a Minuteman silo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnm Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Those wheels must be awfully draggy until the poor missile leaves the atmosphere! By the way, who had the idea of naming an ICBM after a Damned Joo ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) Topol means poplar in Russian. Why you'd name a missile after a tree is of course an equally important question. Edited March 11, 2015 by Jason L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanoid Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Because it's environment-friendly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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