MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoInert nuclear missile found in US man's garagewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down134
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minus-squareTheOtherThyme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·9 months agoThis has to be one of the craziest weapons ever made. An unguided, nuclear, air-to-air rocket.
minus-squareSasha@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 months agoFor when you’ve got really bad aim
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoWell tbf, you don’t need great aim when you can vaporize everything within several hundred meters.
minus-squareArbiterXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoSure, but no plane within about 2km is going to stay in the sky…. The em pulse, the shockwave, the heat…. Aim is for handguns, this thing might take yourself out if you’re not careful.
minus-squarethemoonisacheese@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoThe Davy Crockett Weapon System would like to have a word.
minus-squareZellith@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-29 months agoI like the 280mm Atomic Cannon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goMNAxFqGbk
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months ago15 kiloton is actually pretty small. Have fun! https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoit is, but, like, artillery…
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoProject Pluto has a few words as well. Well, mostly just the one word, but it screams it repeatedly.
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoContinuously to be technical, since it’s a ramjet.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI was referring to the extra nukes it drops along the way, but yeah the nuclear ramjet also causes devastation all the way along the flight path
minus-squareEverythingispenguins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI would guess that it was intended as an interceptor weapon. It wouldn’t be used on one plane but a group Bears flying over the Arctic circle.
minus-squareHyperreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoTBF you don’t really need to have good aim when using a nuke.
This has to be one of the craziest weapons ever made. An unguided, nuclear, air-to-air rocket.
For when you’ve got really bad aim
Well tbf, you don’t need great aim when you can vaporize everything within several hundred meters.
Sure, but no plane within about 2km is going to stay in the sky….
The em pulse, the shockwave, the heat….
Aim is for handguns, this thing might take yourself out if you’re not careful.
The Davy Crockett Weapon System would like to have a word.
I like the 280mm Atomic Cannon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goMNAxFqGbk
holy fuck
15 kiloton is actually pretty small. Have fun! https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
it is, but, like, artillery…
Project Pluto has a few words as well. Well, mostly just the one word, but it screams it repeatedly.
Continuously to be technical, since it’s a ramjet.
I was referring to the extra nukes it drops along the way, but yeah the nuclear ramjet also causes devastation all the way along the flight path
I would guess that it was intended as an interceptor weapon. It wouldn’t be used on one plane but a group Bears flying over the Arctic circle.
TBF you don’t really need to have good aim when using a nuke.