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Originally Posted By YourAlterEgo: The great orange man just spoke “How many times have we won since the afterburners? So many times it’s actually becoming a problem. We’re winning at levels nobody thought were possible. Experts are baffled. People are saying, “Please, no more winning, we can’t take it.” But we keep winning. Huge wins. Historic wins. Frankly, the afterburners may be the greatest thing that’s ever happened to winning.” https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334456/IMG_0021_webp-3830008.JPG Originally Posted By YourAlterEgo: The great orange man just spoke “How many times have we won since the afterburners? So many times it’s actually becoming a problem. We’re winning at levels nobody thought were possible. Experts are baffled. People are saying, “Please, no more winning, we can’t take it.” But we keep winning. Huge wins. Historic wins. Frankly, the afterburners may be the greatest thing that’s ever happened to winning.” https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334456/IMG_0021_webp-3830008.JPG Nailed it. And we're gonna get slaughtered in the mid-terms. Originally Posted By King_me: Rocket Man is at it again..... North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off east coast in three hours https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/north-korea-fires-missile-off-061756384.html Nah man, Trump says we're cool. |
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Originally Posted By WesJanson: I still think *that* question is deeply intruiging. We spent a lot of money on ELF/ULF broadcast capability..and then just quietly shuttered the systems. EAM needs still exist. Something else fulfills them now. The *what* appears to be almost completely undisclosed in the public sphere. One can't help but wonder if we didn't successfully develop and field quantum comms systems in limited numbers 20+ years ago. Though I've also heard an intruiging hint that we might be using some form of satellite-based laser comms to reach deep-diving SSBNs. |
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Originally Posted By R2point0: Riiiiiight. I can't trust Bluetooth to connect to my car to play my weird playlist. Rely on it to drop nukes? Ummm... Originally Posted By R2point0: Originally Posted By 9D1Alpha: We have Bluetooth now , we dont need no stinkin wires ... probly. I was kidding . I know exactly nothing about these matters. Last plane I flew was a ME262 about 23 years ago from my computer in my workout room. 
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Originally Posted By subcomunic8r: ELF didn't send EAMs. And that's all I'll say on that subject. What was used before and during ELF is still in use now. ETA: if "giant marine worms" ring a bell, that was him. |
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Originally Posted By R2point0:
I wonder if you knew my uncle. Sonar expert, along with a lot of classified stuff. Polish, almost deaf, spoke with a stutter. Dude was scary smart, but pretty useless in practical things. He worked in Groton for a while, then moved to GE in Syracuse. ETA: if "giant marine worms" ring a bell, that was him.
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Originally Posted By HK-Slap: Here is the definitive documentary on nuclear surety... Always/Never  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEB3LJ5psk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2qo5m_hTY|2518 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1exo_vU_kOriginally Posted By HK-Slap: Originally Posted By MudEagle: Uh, no. US nuclear weapons are not unlocked, armed, or released (and actually function) without very specific crypto-keyed hardware. Hardware that the B-1 no longer has...and even if it did have what it originally came with, that original hardware is obsolete by now. It has been a couple decades since I went to the Sandia course, but in 1990s-era weapons there were something like 120 operations that had to be executed in order and sequence and in correct timing in order for a nuclear yield to be achieved. There are layer upon layer of "nuclear surety features" which ensure that they are only released by specifically authorized personnel under specifically authorized conditions and circumstances. And, if those features are attempted to be spoofed or bypassed, the weapons very conveniently render themselves quite inert and useless. Good luck with the iPad, though. Here is the definitive documentary on nuclear surety... Always/Never https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEB3LJ5psk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2qo5m_hTY|2518 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1exo_vU_kThere have been some really fun designs that entered service. We had the Mk 101 nuclear depth bomb that would have detonated at the set depth if it had ever fallen off an aircraft and rolled overboard. |
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Originally Posted By Gamma762:
Neutron Bombs will leave the structures and get rid of the bad guys. Maybe the UFO in the other post was recon? |
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Originally Posted By 308223: Neutron Bombs will leave the structures and get rid of the bad guys. Maybe the UFO in the other post was recon? Enhanced radiation weapons. |
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Originally Posted By 308223: Neutron Bombs will leave the structures and get rid of the bad guys. Maybe the UFO in the other post was recon? Originally Posted By 308223: Originally Posted By Gamma762:
Neutron Bombs will leave the structures and get rid of the bad guys. Maybe the UFO in the other post was recon? That isn't how that works... 
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Originally Posted By Canoeguy: Oh I agree that would be a more logical choice, but I didnt realize we were discussing reality. The reality is we arent dropping any nukes anytime soon in my opinion...again I am not an expert at anything but I doubt we will be starting a nuclear war. Originally Posted By Canoeguy: Originally Posted By MudEagle: Or, we could just use the hundreds of other actually nuclear-capable aircraft the US has in our operational inventory. Funny how a discussion around a HFGCS broadcast, combined with an ARFCOMer noting that the only aircraft seen in theater was a B-1, mutated into this idea that there's some (desperate?) need to make a BONE deliver a nuclear munition. Oh I agree that would be a more logical choice, but I didnt realize we were discussing reality. The reality is we arent dropping any nukes anytime soon in my opinion...again I am not an expert at anything but I doubt we will be starting a nuclear war. |
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: For those interested in learning more about nuclear technology and especially weapons, I highly recommend this museum. https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/ It's in Albuquerque New Mexico. They have a lot of really cool stuff on display. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: The first one wasn't even assembled all the way until it was airborne, because it was easy enough to get it to go boom they were afraid a crash on takeoff would vaporize the whole island. it was so easy and reliable the design was never tested. They had that much faith that it would work. The trinity shot was a plutonium bomb of completely different design...That was the Fat man design. Little boy...they just said hold my beer and watch this! The bombardier...or a specialist had to insert half the "pit" (gun style so not really a single pit) after they were safely in the air on the way to Hiroshima. Modern bombs start with an implosion fission bomb,(fat man) that then creates the physics required to produce fusion. Lots of shaping and lensing of xrays and neutrons, math and shit, I think there is some plastic foam involved....physical forces we cannot create outside of a super collider or tokamak reactor......add in some tritium for that extra kick, or make some stuff out of lithium-6.....(looking at you shot Castle Bravo) Viola! How big of a hole do you want? Fusion bombs scale really well, whereas fission bombs have a practical limit where the material is physically dispersed by the explosion before it can all react. Over a certain size you're just making the boom dirtier. But it all starts with some very precisely shaped explosive blocks detonated in very precise order. Takes special switches just to function accurately enough. If you can trigger those switches correctly, the rest will go boom to one degree or another, likely with a nice multi-stage pop. So you don't need fancy nuclear assurity and security systems, if you have knowledge and resources I'm sure you could rig something eventually. It's a hell of process to figure out given the results of a successful test. it's not practical to do in tactical field expedient time frame, and that's probably about as secure as it will ever be. Practically speaking Mach couldn't lose his shit, hang a left from Edwards and crater downtown LA. (not that they were doing testing with live bombs) The entire triad of strategic weapons has similar safeguards. Not sure how the one they strapped to Billy Waugh as he jumped out of perfectly good airplane was safeguarded. But that was a thing at one point. How did we end up here? Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By Keekleberrys: All i was ever arguing is that the task of improvising a field expedient solution if necessary is possible. Not that it makes sense to do so. You just goto the new hire 26 year old Pantex engineer and say "hey nerd we have this problem, figure something out." It may be crude, but they would figure out some solution if it were necessary. I don't think that this is that crazy of an opinion. The bombardier...or a specialist had to insert half the "pit" (gun style so not really a single pit) after they were safely in the air on the way to Hiroshima. Modern bombs start with an implosion fission bomb,(fat man) that then creates the physics required to produce fusion. Lots of shaping and lensing of xrays and neutrons, math and shit, I think there is some plastic foam involved....physical forces we cannot create outside of a super collider or tokamak reactor......add in some tritium for that extra kick, or make some stuff out of lithium-6.....(looking at you shot Castle Bravo) Viola! How big of a hole do you want? Fusion bombs scale really well, whereas fission bombs have a practical limit where the material is physically dispersed by the explosion before it can all react. Over a certain size you're just making the boom dirtier. But it all starts with some very precisely shaped explosive blocks detonated in very precise order. Takes special switches just to function accurately enough. If you can trigger those switches correctly, the rest will go boom to one degree or another, likely with a nice multi-stage pop. So you don't need fancy nuclear assurity and security systems, if you have knowledge and resources I'm sure you could rig something eventually. It's a hell of process to figure out given the results of a successful test. it's not practical to do in tactical field expedient time frame, and that's probably about as secure as it will ever be. Practically speaking Mach couldn't lose his shit, hang a left from Edwards and crater downtown LA. (not that they were doing testing with live bombs) The entire triad of strategic weapons has similar safeguards. Not sure how the one they strapped to Billy Waugh as he jumped out of perfectly good airplane was safeguarded. But that was a thing at one point. How did we end up here? |
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Originally Posted By Eponymous:
instead of just spamming random tweets, you should keep reading that account and you'll find out what came. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: they really don't. They're still nuclear explosions. They just kick out a bunch of a type of radiation that will penetrate things better and make previously non-radioactive things radioactive. Enhanced radiation weapons. Cobalt Thorium G...
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Originally Posted By HK-Slap: Cobalt Thorium G... But then there are radiological weapons. You want to get nervous? Look into how many cesium source irradiators are out there, and how easy they are to open up and remove the source. Tape a couple of pucks of that nice friable material onto an ANFO truck bomb and voila! You've made real estate worthless. The actual radioactive effects aren't big, but psychologically? |
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Originally Posted By stiglitz_actual: Originally Posted By Eponymous:
https://distortion.io/i/EGDmRy.gif Well, the last time they put something with an old TV involved out we got some sort of snarky retro arcade. You think they're taking this one all the way back to the Atari days?
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Originally Posted By R2point0: A cobalt bomb is an enhanced fallout weapon. A neutron bomb has less fallout than a conventional thermonuclear weapon due to smaller blast. But then there are radiological weapons. You want to get nervous? Look into how many cesium source irradiators are out there, and how easy they are to open up and remove the source. Tape a couple of pucks of that nice friable material onto an ANFO truck bomb and voila! You've made real estate worthless. The actual radioactive effects aren't big, but psychologically? The scrap industry does a decent job of screening materials, and most melt operations have sensitive portal scanners for screening the incoming material for that reason. We Installed the same units the US uses at border crossings. we had a portable x ray fluorescence material analyzer that used Americeium 241 and cadmium 109. Government licenses those sources mostly so they get disposed of safely. I don't remember exactly but the half life of one of those is hundreds of years. They found a source on the side of the road in Texas ...not that long ago. The oil industry uses them extensively and they can be much more dangerous materials. it way more common than people think. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: orphan industrial sources have been lost/stolen/melted in the past. A steel mill down the road from the foundry where I was head of safety and the radiation safety officer melted a shielded medical device that had source material in it. That was quite the mess apparently. mini mill that recycled scrap. The scrap industry does a decent job of screening materials, and most melt operations have sensitive portal scanners for screening the incoming material for that reason. We Installed the same units the US uses at border crossings. we had a portable x ray fluorescence material analyzer that used Americeium 241 and cadmium 109. Government licenses those sources mostly so they get disposed of safely. I don't remember exactly but the half life of one of those is hundreds of years. They found a source on the side of the road in Texas ...not that long ago. The oil industry uses them extensively and they can be much more dangerous materials. it way more common than people think. Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By R2point0: A cobalt bomb is an enhanced fallout weapon. A neutron bomb has less fallout than a conventional thermonuclear weapon due to smaller blast. But then there are radiological weapons. You want to get nervous? Look into how many cesium source irradiators are out there, and how easy they are to open up and remove the source. Tape a couple of pucks of that nice friable material onto an ANFO truck bomb and voila! You've made real estate worthless. The actual radioactive effects aren't big, but psychologically? The scrap industry does a decent job of screening materials, and most melt operations have sensitive portal scanners for screening the incoming material for that reason. We Installed the same units the US uses at border crossings. we had a portable x ray fluorescence material analyzer that used Americeium 241 and cadmium 109. Government licenses those sources mostly so they get disposed of safely. I don't remember exactly but the half life of one of those is hundreds of years. They found a source on the side of the road in Texas ...not that long ago. The oil industry uses them extensively and they can be much more dangerous materials. it way more common than people think. But cobalt thorium g has a doomsday shroud.  Cobalt Thorium G |
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Originally Posted By subcomunic8r: [Tone Loc]He's a big fiend for action. Now if he'd said nothin', I'd have thought nothin'. But he goes on and on running down to me about how he ain't been doing nothin' and nothin's been going on and all this other bullshit, so right then and there I know: this cat's got somethin' goin' down.[/Tone Loc] This Slick ain't no joke! |
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Originally Posted By subcomunic8r: ELF didn't send EAMs. And that's all I'll say on that subject. What was used before and during ELF is still in use now. Originally Posted By subcomunic8r: Originally Posted By WesJanson: I still think *that* question is deeply intruiging. We spent a lot of money on ELF/ULF broadcast capability..and then just quietly shuttered the systems. EAM needs still exist. Something else fulfills them now. The *what* appears to be almost completely undisclosed in the public sphere. One can't help but wonder if we didn't successfully develop and field quantum comms systems in limited numbers 20+ years ago. Though I've also heard an intruiging hint that we might be using some form of satellite-based laser comms to reach deep-diving SSBNs. ELF didn't send EAMs. And that's all I'll say on that subject. What was used before and during ELF is still in use now. Okay, correction, they sent the signal to go pop up to a depth where normal VLF or satellite comms could be used. Nevertheless, it's worth noting that Russia, India, and China are all using or building ELF stations...and the US has conspicuously not done so for twenty some years now. Our boomers are just so quiet that they don't worry about coming up for radio traffic? If we switched to something better, obviously no one who knows would admit to it on a public forum. |
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https://ua.news/en/world/ssha-poprosili-skasuvati-vizit-ministra-oboroni-polshchi-do-pentagonu The U.S. has asked that the Polish defense minister's visit to the Pentagon be canceled The visit to the Pentagon by Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, scheduled for Wednesday, will not take place. This is due to an urgent request from the U.S. side. Kosiniak-Kamysz had previously announced that he intended to discuss with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hagsett, in particular, the issue of a permanent U.S. military presence in Poland. Discussions were also expected to cover the deployment of a PAC-3 missile service center in Poland. However, as RMF FM has learned, Vladyslav Kosiniak-Kamysz’s visit to the Pentagon, scheduled for Wednesday, will not take place. It will be rescheduled for a later date. Following the release of this information, the Ministry of National Defense issued a statement announcing that, due to an urgent request from the U.S. side, the visit will be rescheduled. “The date is currently being coordinated. In light of signals from the U.S. side, as well as following the meeting of NATO Chiefs of Staff, it is now necessary to urgently take new measures regarding the security of Alliance countries. Deputy Ministers Magdalena Sobkowiak-Charnecka and Paweł Zalewski are traveling to Washington. They will hold talks with U.S. partners and prepare new agreements regarding our cooperation,” the Ministry of Defense stated. This was reported by RMF FM. As a reminder, Poland has received a new shipment of American Abrams tanks. Poland aims to host up to 15,000 U.S. troops, according to the Anadolu Agency. Poland will supply weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces using a 90-billion-euro EU loan. Poland has already allocated the entire EU loan for rearmament even before receiving the funds The Polish government has decided to challenge the European Union’s trade agreement with South American countries in the Court of Justice of the European Union. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: they really don't. They're still nuclear explosions. They just kick out a bunch of a type of radiation that will penetrate things better and make previously non-radioactive things radioactive. Enhanced radiation weapons. I always thought they were high altitude detonations that depended on Gamma to kill rather than typical overpressure and heat. |
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