Nuclear Bazooka: America DID THAT!
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- The Davy Crockett weapon system is essentially a nuclear bazooka, designed during the cold war and it was probably the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Using the w54 warhead it is the smallest tactical nuke launcher ever made!
Capable of being mounted on a tripod or a jeep, making it the only Nuke JEEP.
The Davy Crockett is also the inspiration the the fat man mini nuke launcher from the fallout video game franchise.
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"There was great fear that some Sergeant would start a Nuclear War"; which really means "We didn't think a 2LT would have the balls to actually use it, and our NCOs may do it just because". 😆
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Fuckin right! NCO’s turned “hold my beer” into “meh, I earned once before, I can again…”. And thus thy fuckery began!
@@brentdale5730 Truth
I'm so glad they removed these from service before my old PL got in. He was one of thise guys that was SUPER fuckin smart. But also fucking retarded. He would have pulled the trigger on one of those himself. Just to see what would happen. And like about 100 other decisions he made, he would have been backed up by a half a dozen NCOs and every E4 and below in the platoon. Not because we actually wanted to be involved in his 2LT antics....but we were morbidly curious as to how said antics would end
@@brentdale5730 Senior E-4's have the same mentality. "Bust me to E-1? So what? 2 months, I'll be an E-4 again."
Hey look, somebody made the Fat Man from Fallout in real life! 😂
Nuclear AK when?
Now if only they can get around to making power armor I think then America will be great again or at least enable anyone to dual wield AK-50s like a mad lad.
First the Fat Man, next should be a nuclear version of the Mark 19 grenade launcher and the energy minigun!
When are you going to start selling that AK-50 from Fallout New Vegas?
Kalasnikrockit
The funny thing is, with the advancements in hand held missile systems, we could remake the Davy Crockett to be safer.
oh for sure!
STOP ENCOURAGING THEM!!!
Did I hear somebody say nuclear Javelin system?
I mean...you're not wrong....but that's a very flexible interpretation of 'safer', especially if it's still carried around by unsupervised grunts.
@@danielhhewett you do realize that with the shit going on overseas we are one president with balls away from posting up on CNN like say our name? Go ahead, say our name three times, see what happens. Sovereign nation? Sounds like annexation to US.
I am surprised it got that far before someone in research and development went "huh....do you think giving grunts nukes is a bad idea?"
Yeah..
I'm really surprised, that nobody during it's development, and later deployment just went
"Hey guys, is it really a good idea too equip 3 grunts with a nuclear bazooka..
You know, just for a minute or two..
Remember, this was the era of "atoms for peace" and the US Army's semi-portable nuclear reactors with their 'rigorous' six week training regimen.
They did the same thing with the minuteman system, and fyi, all the systems had the same launch code of: 000000000
They should've known better. It's sketchy enough giving US grunts rifles.
You're assuming R&D thinks past the testing and development phase. ;)
One step closer to getting mini nuclear grenades
that also almost happened
We're reaching 40k levels of bullshit weapons and we haven't even reached the golden age of tech yet.
@@the_fat_electrician I can already imagine why it didn't
So THAT explains all the fun stuff you can build in Fallout 4...
Bethesda got their hands on the DoD's back-catalogue of munitions.
I mean it's possible, but the issue is that the explosion would be too big for infantry to use and even when they are unused, the nuclear radiation itself would cause harm to its users.
Mushroom clouds in mirror are closer than they appear.
I have to wonder if this thing had the standard, "This end toward enemy" that all Army munitions seem to need.
It isn't even the first time a weapon was as lethal to user as to enemy... phosphorus grenades had a longer effective range than a man could throw it.
did you catch that the one displayed said "handle with care"? my man.... it's a nuke... if you need to tell them "handle with care" MAYBE they can go do something NOT near the fissionable material? maybe?
@@danielhhewett Nah. It definitely needs to be there. Command would only put their most expendable grunts within range of that thing. Which also means they put it the hands of the grunts most likely to deploy it. They really didn't think it through too well. Haha
It's actually on the front of claymore mines
"DO NOT EAT."
Need to cover Project Pluto and the SLAM missile next. The US of A’s nuclear doomsday missile that even Uncle Sam looked at and said, “Maybe that’s a bit much.” As it would poison the ground it flew over, drop nuclear bombs along the way, then become Japanese and kamikaze itself into one last target.
It leaked radiation, Shockwave at treetop height , and we didn't want Russia to make one
World's worst weapon book
Yeah the time America made a weapon idea and said, maybe a little much.
@@terrynewsome6698 If Americans say a weapon is a bit too much, you know it’s gone too far.
@Ban this youtube That is surprising, and yet somehow, not surprising. And I don’t know why.
@Ban this youtube That’s true.
Remember: Actual doctrine was not to use these to destroy tanks. It was specifically intended to detonate at a low altitude to create as much short-lived fallout as possible; hundreds would be fired simultaneously, especially along the Fulda Gap. Would this radiation belt have stopped an army of advancing Soviet tanks? Probably not, or at least not for very long. But it _would_ have rendered that stretch of land immediately fatal for an army of advancing Soviet _infantry_ for 6 or 7 hours.
Yes, the entire point of Davy Crockett was a _delaying tactic_ to buy NATO enough time to get their shit together so they could mount a counterattack. Which also means that what actually put it out of business was not concerns over command and control, but the ballistic missile. Because why bother with a nuclear bazooka that will, at best, delay the enemy, when you can instead use a bigger bomb that will _kill_ the enemy, while also being harder to intercept and posing significantly less risk to your own forces?
USSR: “We have countless numbers of tanks that will crush the whole of Europe.”
USA: “NOOK TOOB!”
Toob
Toob
Toob
NOOK TOOB is far more hilarious than it should be.
Noob toob.... Na we got a Nook toob
My father in law was assigned to the Davey Crocket when he served in Germany. He didn't talk about it until he saw a documentary on it one day. He was talking about it and what he was to do after they fired it. Basically dig a hole and hide. The documentary mentioned that exact point and how deep the hole was supposed to be. My father in law sat there and said he wasn't trained to dig it THAT deep. 😳😆
What years? My father and uncle did too. 64-68
Remember the shoulder fired nukes from Starship Troopers? Those are real, sort of.
My desire to know more is intensifying.
I feel like they missed an opportunity by not calling it the "Davey Rocket."
Crockett rocket would've worked better
Army officer: Jenkins fire a warning shot.
Private Jenkins: Sir this is nuclear warhead.
Army Officer: Eh potato potahto just fire.
LOL
Maybe from the top of a really really tall hill and haul ass down the other side?
Ah i see you are a Bager fan aswell
I can't decide what I like more, describing the Cold War as "still a better love story than Twilight" or an atomic bazooka-laden jeep as "shoot 'n' scoot" or "yeet and retreat"
"3 grunts 1 Jeep is way worse"
Holy shit. Holy fuck that hit harder than it should have. Great vid, bro. Love the new music you got rolling.
Nukezuka needs to be a T shirt
I concur
I’d buy one
I second the motion
@@fireman305 i have quite a few if his shirts, anymore bunker branding and Colion Noir are what I wear. Have 1 for almost every day of the month lol
Shut up and take my money.
I was stationed at Fort Polk and they still have these buried in the impact area.
Nuclear Bazooka might be two of the best words in the English language.
Nic, you never fail to deliver good and amusing content. Always excited yo see your material, thanks Doc!!! Still going to put for the MP review!
Viper7 out
thank you!
Just NO to the MPs. I know, “bah, but they are just like grunts with a badge, bah…” but they just aren’t. You know who’s just like grunts? GRUNTS!
@@mcinteer19 pound for pound, MPs are more heavily armed and versatile on the battlefield. We don't just run, jump and stab or work the ECP. Dont be jealous that we have much more versatility and more cool toys;)
@@mcinteer19 they are nothing like grunts with badges for fucksake all did in 91 was run pow pens and annoy everybody else " see where soldiers to"
Once again a hilarious (if somewhat terrifying) look at the US Military's Arsenal... and I thought WE were dumb in fitting a Blue Steel (fitted with Red Snow a British tinkered W28 1.1Mt warhead) standoff nuke to a Vulcan Bomber and letting said Vulcan take part in an air display(!)
🦆💥 out indeed.
hold up. just.... hold up one second here... you lot called your nuke... 'red snow'... that's all kinds of messed up and hilarious
@@danielhhewett But not as messed up and hilarious as having one on a bomber taking part *in a freakin' air display.*
@@danielhhewett Yup. And, get this, Red Snow's predecessor, 'Green Grass' a 400Kt package, went into a casing called 'Yellow Sun', our Mk.1 Nuclear freefall bomb.
Red Snow, the physics package, also went into a casing called 'Son of Yellow Sun', the Mk.2 version of Yellow Sun.
And, yes, we Brits had Rainbow Codes for everything 🤣
@@jic1 in its hay-day Farnborough was home to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, a British research establishment, which included a Section dedicated to our V Force of Nuclear Bombers, the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant.
@@GlasgowCeltic88 I'm well aware of that, having spent most of my life within five miles of Farnborough. I'm not sure how that explains a live warhead being on an aircraft in an air display, though. It wasn't an active RAF base, so there wasn't really a reason for live warheads to be on site, and nuclear warhead research was done at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.
I was going to watch this one with my dad until I got hit by the two girls one cup reference. Still funny as hell
lol
oh.... dad knows
@@danielhhewett that’s what scares me
No balls
First off, Your videos are hysterical!! Secondly the way you describe things and refer to things like yeetus deletus and unhealth care are some of the best phrases. As a marine corps veteran, these are classic and VERY relatable. Thank you for making such great content. You have a subscriber for life.
There is a Davey Crockett jr , it's a shoulder launched version. Both are on display at the National Infantry Museum. There is video footage of it being tested at Ft Bliss TX (el paso) back in the day on a pill box bunker
I remember hearing on TH-cam that there was a plan to bring water from the Mediterranean Sea to the middle of the Sarah desert via a canal excavated by (and this I remember as fact) ~15 NUCLEAR LANDMINES!
Yes they were going to use the w45 MADM nuke landmine
My boss in 1968 was a former army sergeant who was a “Daniel Boone.” That’s what the Dave Crocket crews called themselves. He indicated the teams kept changing their vehicles. When he mustered out, their “devices” were being carried via significantly modified M113 personnel carriers
Totally dropped the ball on the "3 grunts and a Crockett rocket" joke😆😆😆😆
I was a 45B in the US Army during the 1980s before they did away with the MOS. We repaired anything smaller than 105mm howitzer. We were still being trained on how to work on the Davey Crockett. Despite being removed from service, the actual system remained active until the late 1970s. It didn't really die until the M113 APC was replaced by the M2 and M3 Bradleys. The last functional Davey Crockett system was designed to fired from 4.2" mortar system on a M113 APC rather than be ground or jeep mounted on a recoilless rifle system.
I'm loving these cold war era insanity videos. America (and nato i guess) were preparing that, any day, Ivan was going to come rolling through the Fulda Gap with more tanks than God. This is what lead to the invention of Davy Crockett. Also the A-10, who would be shooting fish in a barrel, but the fish are T-72's and the barrel is central germany and you're shooting 70 bullets the size of a whiskey bottle every second and the bullets are either made of depleted uranium or they explode. And this wasn't even the solution, this was a stalling tactic.
The cold war was insane. Speaking of insane, did you ever hear about the time A F-15E deleted a MI-24 with a 2000 pound bomb? Well, we think it was a MI-24, a positive identification of the helo was impossible because there wasn't enough helicopter to identify.
or that time an A-10 deleted a HIP with only guns (well, gun), and iirc it's the last gun only aviation kill in US history.
@@spookmeyer970 Or that time when the B-52 Stratofortress managed to score multiple air-to-air kills during Vietnam?
The B-52 used to have a turret in the tail with guns mounted in it like the old WWII bombers had (although it didn't have dorsal, ventral, nose, or wing-mounted guns). In 1972, during Operation Linebacker II, MiG-21 fighters engaged B-52D bombers on both 18 December and 24 December, and the bombers used their quad .50 tail guns to defend themselves. The MiG-21 from the 18 December incident was seen exploding behind the B-52D, whereas the MiG-21 on the 24 December incident fell off of the B-52's scope, but was seen by the tail gunner of another B-52 as it caught fire and fell away.
While Vietnam has never confirmed those two kills, Vietnamese sources do credit the B-52D with an air-to-air kill of a MiG-21 on 16 April, 1972.
The B-52D is the largest aircraft ever credited with an air-to-air kill.
The quad .50 was replaced with a radar guided 20mm M61 Vulcan cannon in the B-52H models, but the tail guns were removed from all B-52s in the 1990s thanks to an F-4 Phantom shooting a B-52H in the ass with an AGM-88 HARM during Operation Desert Storm.
@@Kaelland there's also the time one of those ef-111 splashed a mirage without firing a shot.
@@Kaelland There are good odds Vietnam couldn't confirm the kills because they weren't Vietnamese pilots. A lot of sorties over Vietnam were flown by the Soviets.
And then there was the time a P-38 blew a Zero out of the air with a bomb...
That is definitely a MAD weapon.
The Shoot-n- Scoot sounds like something from Hasbro's "My First Nuclear Arsenal" toy line😂
Please do a video on the backpack nukes. SADMs are fun and there was legitimately one for sale on gunbroker a year ago.
Wait. WHAT
Probably a trainer, full of concrete to weigh the same. That was all the adm crews were allowed to have.
My grandfather served with the 3rd Armor from 63 to 70. He really got a kick out of this 😂😂😂 thank you for the content yet again my brother! 🙌🇺🇸
The atomic bomb backpack has to be next!
There was also an "atomic munition" version of the same warhead.
Sometimes known as the "suitcase bomb" as it was the size of some suitcases (it had a slightly different layout).
Design work by Theodore Taylor at Los Alamos, who also used a variation on the design for some of his early work on Orion.
He also designed the largest yield pure atomic weapon, which reached about 1 megaton (which is normally considered thermonuclear range yield).
After the last video I knew this one was coming. This thing was too nuts not to talk about
Topic Suggestion: the Comanche Stealth Helicopter. I loved playing Jungle Strike as a kid and would love to see someone do a deep dive into the topic. Sad it never entered into production. Looked badass
To the best of my knowledge, the blast radius > minimum safe distance thing is a myth, albeit a very persistent one
If I remeber correctly it isn't the blast but the radiation that kills the shooter
My middle school math teacher around 91 was one of the guys who helped test these before he became a teacher! They told us the story but he never really mentioned it. He was already older and kinda weird already but they said he was some higher ranking officer who decided to become a math teacher as a second career!
We all knew it was coming......
ya.....
Maybe someone else already mentioned this, but in David Hackworth’s book, About Face, he talks about the Day Crockett. He said they practiced with it, but he had no idea where the actual warheads were kept. However, a friend of his whom he trusted told him that if war was going to happen, the warheads would be sent to the units quickly (I want to say a matter of hours but I dont have a copy of the book with me).
I would love to hear about this nuking the moon story. Never heard about it before!
The National Infantry Museum in Columbus,Georgia has a Davy Crockett on display in their Cold War Gallery. It’s amazing to look at every time you enter the Cold War Gallery.
2:24 Why…WHY CAN I STILL SEE THE IMAGE CLEARLY, THROUGH THE PIXELATION???
......... dont...don't.... just don't
@@the_fat_electrician But, but, but… YOU PUT IT THERE
I saw one when the Watervliet Arsenal had a museum. They also had a nuclear canon, which was definitely very cool.
Been awhile since you've done anything on airpower. Would be cool to see one on the the F/A 18, F 16 or F 15
But which F-15 variant? The A-D variants that are all air-to-air models, or the F-15E Strike Eagle? Or the F-15EX, because they decided to modernize the Mudhen?
@@Kaelland he's never nerded out on any of the other platforms and gotten into their variants, why start with the F15?
For thse reading the minutes at the end about why the Davy Crockett was scrapped, when it says it was "used" in the 1961 Berlin crisis, it was deployed there, not actually fired.
That "wild front ear" joke was the greatest thing I've heard all week. I'm stealing that.
Couldn't you shoot it from a mountain or a cliff edge and in theory gain a greater distance away from the blast
it could shoot further than the fallout radius it just couldn't shoot it accurately.
@@the_fat_electrician To be fair, with that kind if blast radius. That definitely gives mortarmen a run for their money on "to whom it may concern".
America's history of dubious Nuclear Devices is crazy.
The thunderwells, for example.
You don't know the half of it. Watch "The History Guy." We didn't have to worry about the Russians. When it came to nukes,, it was a bona fide miracle we survived our own incompetence.
Hey electrician, can you do a video on the F-111 Ardvark? Its probably one of the best jet bombers America's ever produce but it's completely forgotten.
Not by the Aussies...
This reminds me that there is a hanger and runway out in the middle of Idaho that was built for the first nuclear power airplane, which luckily a civilian scientist had the bright idea to ask “what happens if it crashes?” Project scrapped because reactor was too heavy
[thinks for 2 minutes]
Now I want to see a nuclear claymore!
Poundsign # clack-clack cloud
Poundsign # the spicy mushroom tip tornado
The Davy Crockett: When America stopped to think "You think maybe we're America-ing too close to the sun on this one?"
And this is why there are impact areas that cannot be entered on Ft. Carson. They still have radioactive areas.
Look, all I heard is that the most dangerous thing on the battlefield is officially a platoon sergeant.
You should talk about that time we almost made a nuclear powered cruise missile too. (The SLAM missile)
The America that built this, is the America we should strive to be.
how much you wanna bet we have a fully functioning fat man launcher, just sitting in a weapon vault somewhere in the states.
@@c0ya1 "Hi I'm Ian Mcollum, from forgetten weapons and today we are taking a look at.."
Just got caught going "aww, that's cute"...
She was jealous until she was shown it was a baby nuke, but then she was livid and confused.
2:26: yeah *"three grunts, one jeep"* is indeed waayyy worse than "two girls, one cup"
It'd be badass to see you do a video over the T95, or the MBT-70 lmfao millions of tax payers dollars never saw service 🤣
That's literally why it was put on the back of a Jeep. When it was calculated that the launching charge wasn't enough to theoretically get the munitions far enough away to be safe to the shooter, it was then recalculated on the premise that if the shooter were to drive away like mad just after shooting if they would be safe. I believe this was the scariest "just enough" ever uttered by an engineer before. If you also look at it, it's designed to be launched at a very specific angle. That angle represents the maximum effective distance needed to launch the warhead and get it as far out as possible on a level surface.
You joke that they were to launch it and then try to outrun the fallout but that's exactly what they were supposed to do.
do you have any sources? not trying to be rude legitimately asking because that was the impression I had when I started researching for the video and all the declassified documents and training videos said they were supposed to dig a trench and hide in it to try and let the radiation pass over head.
@@the_fat_electrician Unfortunately I don't anymore. I was talking to an old engineer from those days and digging a trench doesn't work because radiated particles are physical particles with mass. That's why it's called fallout and not windout or blowout. The original plan was entrenchment, but like putting your head between your legs under a desk didn't work so the jeep is a newer revision. If you look at newer photos, the launcher is hard mounted to the jeep and is meant to be fired from the jeep itself. If you Google Davy Crockett nuke, there a pic of a dummy being fired off the ass of the jeep.
My social studies teacher when I was a sophomore in HS (2001) was I’m the US Army during the Cuban Missile Crisis and he remembered to us being in the the Fulda Gap in Germany with the Davey Crocket forward deployed in his Jeep, as a private, just waiting for Soviet tanks to start firing at. Scary pucker factor levels there
"Private fire a warning shot"
"Sarge this is a nuclear bazooka"
"Before some grunts shoot it from behind and try to outrun the blast" exactly my plan as soon as you said jeep mounted and safe zone is bigger than firing zone I was thinking its only like a mile that's not that far if your already hauling ass
I need to see if you covered the Katie Shells. Basically, Atomic Annie and Davy Crockett's Navy Cousin, built to be used by the Iowa-Class Battleships.
"A sergeant would start a war." That's coded message for we didn't trust our junior officers, who could pass land nav, with the power of the sun.
In 1971 I checked out C. B Colby's 1961 "Our Space Age Army" and found out about the Davy Crockett. At first, I thought: "Neat! Atomic bazooka!" Then i put my know-it-all seventh grade brain to work and noted that the launcher had only a 1.25-mile maximum range. Later, I learned that the weapon began development as Disney's Davy Crockett miniseries premiered. I also learned that there were two types of launchers and the bigger one with the same warhead had a 2.5-mile range. The blast radius wasn't big but the instant casualty radius was bigger, so I figured out that the warheads were enhanced radiation ("neutron bomb") technology. The W-54 was used on the unguided air-to-air Genie rocket and the Nuclear Falcon guided missile, plus nuclear depth charges, a nuclear demolition charge, and possibly even the nuclear torpedo. I'm not sure what nuclear warhead was on Talos and other Navy surface to air missiles. A video on the W-54 might prove interesting given how many different weapons used this warhead. I suspect that miniaturization had made smaller warheads practical--the 155mm nuclear artillery shell has a thinner diameter and may weigh less.
That made me doubt the reality of the Davy Crockett. Cinching that was when I joined the Marines and discovered the rigid control over small arms. Giving a major OPCON over six nuclear warheads (each Davy Crockett system was provided with six rounds) was bad enough--but a sergeant or specialist? I didn't believe in the Atomic Bazooka.
In 2007 I was certified as a range safety NCO in the Nevada Army National Guard. I was able to establish and run laser and live-fire small arms ranges in accordance to Army Regulations. I encountered a reference to range cleanup after using practice warheads for the Davy Crockett--transferred to electronic format for some reason. The practice warheads had a radioactive trace element because the crew was supposed to aim the warhead to blanket the intended target with fallout. The lethal distances for the initial radiation were still in excess of the Davy Crockett's blast radius, so the crew had to take cover--and the M113 launch platform didn't have sufficient armor to protect the launch crew.
Technically, it was a recoilless spigot mortar.
The fun thing about the Davey Crockett is that the second warhead had a variable yield warhead. Yes. Literally "Dial a Yield."
Who sez nuclear engineers had no sense of humor?
It's stories like this that make me wonder if we are the bad guy.
But then I look over and see those people we fight against are almost always worse then us.
A good follow up to this would be the crossover episode where the Combat Engineers had backpack nuke units.
I think the cwis is the definition of the accuracy by volume
OK, now you absolutely have to do the time Jack Kennedy, having publicized the Green Berets, created the SEALs, and re-activated the Air Commandos (I mean, the Peace Corps and the astronauts were pretty damned boring), decided to give the SFs backpack nukes.
The "Two girls and a Cup" comment about made me shoot coffee through my nose. In 05 on my second deployment to the sand we had a guy puke all over the floor after seeing that gem of a video, so now 17 years later everybody that was in that room to witness his barf bang send him a video link to "Two Girls" every year since that deployment, I'm sure every April 12 he won't even open his email!
The best explanation ever of battlefield tactical nukes, a subject I think we are all going to get very familiar with in the coming weeks.
I do can imagine a couple of soldiers talking with a mechanic to give more power to the jeep so they can outrun it
Top Brass knew that somewhere somehow those 3 grunts would shoot that thing and survive.
I am so glad that I found your channel months ago. My wallet is a little angry because I had to replace two keyboards before I learned not to drink anything while watching your videos. This would have been another keyboard replacer. Was not expecting the Armageddon clips. Broken Arrow was what I was actually expecting. (Please do not shoot at the thermonuclear weapon.)
Thank you for the time and effort you put into these videos. I learn something. Laugh a lot. And have a much better week because the world doesn't seem so dark after I watch the 21st century's answer to Mark Twain. I hope this finds you well and happy.
Fun fact: there's an entire range on fort hood that's a no-go zone even for EOD because it's littered with DU from practice DC rounds. And it's a really shitty situation when a range is off limits even for EOD.
Knew a Crockett in college. Definitely wouldn’t give him nuclear discretion. He’d start the apocalypse in a self imposed purple haze.
It would be a cool video if you did one about the army’s Berlin brigade and the tactical nuke backpacks they had to wear during the 80s/90s, and all the other crazy stuff they did.
“Yeet n retreat” 😂😂😂 I’m so glad I found your channel!!
I was expecting a Davy Crockett joke, and was not disappointed.
I remember at my buddies house playing the brand new game “Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater”
At some point in the game, the main antagonist, Colonel Volgin, reveals his newly acquired Davey Crocket weapon system that had a nuclear warhead at the business end of the barrel.
Now my young self said out loud “That’s cool but who is stupid enough to actually make that weapon?”
My buddy said “We did. We actually built it.”
We debated about it’s existence until we finally paused the game, searched online, and found that not only was it real, it was mass produced.
It wasn’t a one off special, they build a few hundred of them.
My teenage mind was blown like the nuclear testing as Los Alamos.🤯
I remember seeing one on display as literally the first thing you saw at the entrance to the Airborne Museum at Ft Benning in 1985. If only they had one you could literally jump in...
Should’ve added this to a list of things an e4 will do to take a nap again cuz there’s no such thing as a war crime if there’s nothing left of the enemy
3:49 I read a bit and the last sentence on that paragraph is and I quote: “I think it was a little bit ahead of its time” -COWAN (3rd Armored Division)
The ultimate “Yeet-stick”
Grunt: With the wind in our face and driving fast enough….. We can beat the blast! Fuck it! FIRE!
If this video takes off enough there is a realistic possibility that the nuclear noob tube could be a dlc weapon for the new mw2
There have actually been slightly smaller backpack nukes developed as well. Usually called a SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition). Not very powerful compared to most other nukes but still terrifying.
Mad fuckin props for including Steve Buscemi riding a nuke.
You need to keep this atomic theme going and talk about the atomic backpack next
Bro. I know absolutely Jack shit about the military, nor has it ever interested me. But man do you have a talent for telling stories. I'm addicted to this channel.
The nuclear round for the M109 sp howitzer was issued with a lanyard for firing that was 150 meters in length. I don't think it was long enough.
Im pretty sure this was the inspiration for the fat man from fallout. Specifically the MIRV version.
Wasn’t there just a backpack nuke in the 70s or something where the idea was basically “this timer is like 15 mins which is nowhere near enough time so, drop it, and start running. MAYBE you’ll make it to tmr”
Nukezuka go... Eh it doesn't matter, you won't be around long enough to hear it.
An interdasting detail about this particular warhead. It was an unlined warhead, so the neutrons were free to escape in every direction they liked when it detonated. Instant incapacitation and irradiation 500 feet from ground zero, with a minimum of 30 Gray/s to achieve that, with effects scaling down for the next 4,500 feet. CEP of 50 meters at 2.5km. Ya-Yeet.
Loved the inserts, you had us rolling with this one!
Grunt one shoots the Crockett
Grunt two “ damn it getting toasty”