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Posted: 7/8/2015 9:46:03 PM EDT
The United States Air Force (USAF) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have completed the first development flight test of a controversial update to a nuclear bomb that has been use since the 1960s. The tests are designed to extend the lifespan of the nuclear weapon by upgrading some of its parts Spoiler alert: This was a 'safe' version of the the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb with no warhead, tested at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3154136/Air-force-drops-controversial-bomb-test-designed-update-nuclear-arsenal.html |
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Needs to be tested at Baltimore Test Range, in Maryland, instead of Nevada.
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Wait.... we have a US Nuclear Weapons Museum? Why the fuck I wasn't ever told about this! Damn it GD.... you're fucking slipping!
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They should have dropped it on Ferguson! Oh yea they already destroyed it.
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In before Jade Helm! I love me some B-61. Big crowd pleaser! |
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Well it's about time we upgraded our nukes.
Don't want them to go past the sell-by date. |
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Wait.... we have a US Nuclear Weapons Museum? Why the fuck I wasn't ever told about this! Damn it GD.... you're fucking slipping! View Quote There is also a museum in Las Vegas. When i swung through a couple years ago there was an incredibly nice woman who's husband had been a weather technician for some of the testing done in alaska. well worth the visit if you're in the area |
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B61 drop shape at the US Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque: http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=10789 View Quote We called that the "silver bullet". |
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IBJH In before Jade Helm! I love me some B-61. Big crowd pleaser! Nah - the B83 is the crowd pleaser. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=10790 Is that in the spare bedroom? |
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IBJH In before Jade Helm! I love me some B-61. Big crowd pleaser! Nah - the B83 is the crowd pleaser. http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=10790 No. The 'Dial-a-Boom' is the massive crowd pleaser. Big bad megaton is 'mother of all crowds pleaser'. You need to get your crowd sizer calibrated! The scale starts with SRAM's as the 'party favors' and goes up from there... |
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I can say with all honesty that I have sat my ass on a real live B61, B83, and a SRAM. On multiple occasions. <<< USAF SAC AMMO cold war. TCABC |
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B61 drop shape at the US Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque: http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=10789 We called that the "silver bullet". I've always wanted one of the sub-scale training bombs. Looked like a 3 foot long miniature V-2 rocket. I know a guy who had one as the base for the flagpole at his house and somehow never asked where he got his. |
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I can say with all honesty that I have sat my ass on a real live B61, B83, and a SRAM. On multiple occasions. <<< USAF SAC AMMO cold war. TCABC View Quote Thankfully I DIDN'T have to. I went thru basic in 1984 and my initial (proposed? I don't remember how it was worded) assignment was to be a SRAM missile maintenance technician. Fortunately I wound up going to avionics school and working on F-15s. SAC didn't appeal to me one bit. My dad was a Boeing engineer and worked on some cool stuff. He was on a program to adapt a nuclear cruise missile designed for the B-1A, for use on the B-52. I have a pic around here somewhere. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days?
We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. View Quote Where's sylvan? |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. View Quote No. There's still a very valid need for a weapon you have to put eyes on target for. OTH weapons have their place, too, but when you absolutely, positively have to kill it, a large(r than you can put on a missile) weapon eyeballed into the DGZ is the way to go. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. Where's sylvan? What the hell!?! What am I, chopped liver? |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. View Quote We had one and they retired it...with no replacement. ACM |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. Where's sylvan? What the hell!?! What am I, chopped liver? Sorry sir, but you post recipes and he posts articles. |
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B61 drop shape at the US Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque: http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=10789 View Quote Sort of want a replica of this for my office. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. Where's sylvan? What the hell!?! What am I, chopped liver? Sorry. |
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No. There's still a very valid need for a weapon you have to put eyes on target for. OTH weapons have their place, too, but when you absolutely, positively have to kill it, a large(r than you can put on a missile) weapon eyeballed into the DGZ is the way to go. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. No. There's still a very valid need for a weapon you have to put eyes on target for. OTH weapons have their place, too, but when you absolutely, positively have to kill it, a large(r than you can put on a missile) weapon eyeballed into the DGZ is the way to go. Nobody is going to be putting eyes on a target for a nuclear bomb. Bomb will be dropped from high altitude and I would think that the sheer destructive power of a nuclear blast makes the need for precision guidance a moot point. The only situation where I could see nuclear gravity bombs being relevant would be for follow up strikes and that only after all other nuclear weapons have been used or are being held in reserve if they survived the first strike in case another enemy launches on us. |
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Nobody is going to be putting eyes on a target for a nuclear bomb. Bomb will be dropped from high altitude and I would think that the sheer destructive power of a nuclear blast makes the need for precision guidance a moot point. The only situation where I could see nuclear gravity bombs being relevant would be for follow up strikes and that only after all other nuclear weapons have been used or are being held in reserve if they survived the first strike in case another enemy launches on us. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. No. There's still a very valid need for a weapon you have to put eyes on target for. OTH weapons have their place, too, but when you absolutely, positively have to kill it, a large(r than you can put on a missile) weapon eyeballed into the DGZ is the way to go. Nobody is going to be putting eyes on a target for a nuclear bomb. Bomb will be dropped from high altitude and I would think that the sheer destructive power of a nuclear blast makes the need for precision guidance a moot point. The only situation where I could see nuclear gravity bombs being relevant would be for follow up strikes and that only after all other nuclear weapons have been used or are being held in reserve if they survived the first strike in case another enemy launches on us. There are eyes and then there are eyes. If ever a nuclear gravity bomb is dropped again there will likely be eyes on the target. |
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This is a ground penetrating bomb right?
accuracy even with 440kt is important when underground... |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. View Quote You can always recall planes. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. You can always recall planes. Not if Major Kong is piloting. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. You can always recall planes. This. |
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Nobody is going to be putting eyes on a target for a nuclear bomb. Bomb will be dropped from high altitude and I would think that the sheer destructive power of a nuclear blast makes the need for precision guidance a moot point. The only situation where I could see nuclear gravity bombs being relevant would be for follow up strikes and that only after all other nuclear weapons have been used or are being held in reserve if they survived the first strike in case another enemy launches on us. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. No. There's still a very valid need for a weapon you have to put eyes on target for. OTH weapons have their place, too, but when you absolutely, positively have to kill it, a large(r than you can put on a missile) weapon eyeballed into the DGZ is the way to go. Nobody is going to be putting eyes on a target for a nuclear bomb. Bomb will be dropped from high altitude and I would think that the sheer destructive power of a nuclear blast makes the need for precision guidance a moot point. The only situation where I could see nuclear gravity bombs being relevant would be for follow up strikes and that only after all other nuclear weapons have been used or are being held in reserve if they survived the first strike in case another enemy launches on us. Digging something up and blowing it to kingdom come... There's a rather shocking level of precision involved. |
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With all the improvements in air defense, isn't a nuclear gravity bomb pretty much useless these days? We SHOULD be upgrading and building more nuclear stealth cruise missiles, improving our ballistic missiles, and doing serious work on hypersonic missiles. No. There's still a very valid need for a weapon you have to put eyes on target for. OTH weapons have their place, too, but when you absolutely, positively have to kill it, a large(r than you can put on a missile) weapon eyeballed into the DGZ is the way to go. Nobody is going to be putting eyes on a target for a nuclear bomb. Bomb will be dropped from high altitude and I would think that the sheer destructive power of a nuclear blast makes the need for precision guidance a moot point. The only situation where I could see nuclear gravity bombs being relevant would be for follow up strikes and that only after all other nuclear weapons have been used or are being held in reserve if they survived the first strike in case another enemy launches on us. There are eyes and then there are eyes. If ever a nuclear gravity bomb is dropped again there will likely be eyes on the target. I SEE what you did there. |
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