James G
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Post by James G on Apr 23, 2018 19:40:05 GMT
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raunchel
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Post by raunchel on Apr 23, 2018 20:43:32 GMT
What a wonderfully insane weapon! I had heard about the Davy Crocket but this seems even crazier, and very, very hard to actually make any use of.
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Post by James G on Apr 23, 2018 20:56:20 GMT
Nuclear suitcase / backpack bombs are meant to be fiction but they really were not.
"keep the bomb under observation... until whenever that detonation might be"
Yeah... sure.
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Post by raunchel on Apr 23, 2018 21:54:09 GMT
Nuclear suitcase / backpack bombs are meant to be fiction but they really were not. "keep the bomb under observation... until whenever that detonation might be" Yeah... sure. One of them even states that they would have run as far away as possible the moment they set the bomb. Which I can understand very well. I think that anyone even vaguely sane would do that. |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 24, 2018 3:48:54 GMT
Jumping out of a plane with a nuke hanging below you, the men had nerves of steel. |
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Post by stevep on Apr 24, 2018 11:04:27 GMT
Sounds like a less than sensible use of such weapons. As the article states, how are you going to link up the men and weapons, kept separately, then get them into eastern Europe when there's a war already going on. Let alone that either your breaking the nuclear barrier by making the 1st use, which NATO was reluctant to do or tactical weapons - at least - are already in use in which case its pretty much total chaos already.
Furthermore that exercise at the top of the article seems utterly pointless. If a nuclear exchange is already under way then I wouldn't rate a heavy water plant as a high priority target. That sounds very much like bolting the stable door after the horse has not only bolted but left the farm entirely!
I knew of the plans to use such weapons to destroy infrastructure within W Germany to slow a WP advance and that made some sense. Even the threat of it could limit the Soviet actions to some degree. Albeit I could understand the Germans being less than happy with the idea.
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