Air to air nuke

[Richard]

Inelegantly I must say WTF?

Unguided...air to air...nuclear warhead...deployed...boy, MAD got really out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

After deploying the nuclear warheads, it could simply cruise back and forth across the Soviet countryside turing it into a radioactive wasteland...

 

[dmccormack]

Several northern SAC bases hosted Interceptor wings. The mission of the F-102/6 was to fly at the incoming bomber formations, fire the rocket (NOT missile), and do a many-G 180 degree turn at high speed to avoid the blast effects.

The Warhead yield was small, but would have caused lots of havoc for bombers in flight.

We might have had them at Griffiss AFB in 1980. Then maybe we didn't.

 

[Skylane81E]

Inelegantly I must say WTF?

Unguided...air to air...nuclear warhead...deployed...boy, MAD got really out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie

If you are truly fighting with the gloves off, just take em off. No need to be nice to the bombers when nuking the rest of the countryside.

 

[mikea]

The ATOM IS OUR FRIEND!

"The other thing" that JFK was taking pride in in his "We will go to the moon" speech was the Rover nuclear rocket.

They also had small nuclear reactors for making heat and electricity for the ice stations. Read how the testing of that SL-1 reactor went so well. The body parts of the victims are buried in concrete as nuclear waste!

It is a miracle that we're still here to talk about it.

 

[Pi1otguy]

The Davy Crockett is still my favorite one though. A plane can leave the blast zone in seconds. OTOH, the crew for this thing had to take cover before their own blast wave arrived then leave before the fallout.

 

[mikea]

The Davy Crockett is still my favorite one though. A plane can leave the blast zone in seconds. OTOH, the crew for this thing had to take cover before their own blast wave arrived then leave before the fallout.

I say build it, Smedley! It's can't lose as long as they can't shoot something like it back at our guys!

Where did I read that a lone commando might have a small nuke they can strap to their leg...might have been fiction...might be real.

 

[dmccormack]

Did anyone ever consider that some of the alleged tactical nuclear weapons were actually just concrete filled aluminum tubes?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

good reading!
There is an old, 40min vid of the SL-1 on Youtube.

 

[Pi1otguy]

I say build it, Smedley! It's can't lose as long as they can't shoot something like it back at our guys!

Where did I read that a lone commando might have a small nuke they can strap to their leg...might have been fiction...might be real.

Sometimes I wonder how we made it through the Cold War. For instance, what if that sub captain actually fired his nuclear torpedo during the Cuba missile crisis?

 

[dmccormack]

I posted this somewhere else but that's me maintaining an Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM, AGM-89) while in the 416th MMS, SAC, GAFB, NY in 1981:

(back of my head is closest to the camera)

Yes that was a classified area, and no, I don't know when the pics were declassified.

We had official photographers in the bay twice in 3 years.

 

[dell30rb]

I say build it, Smedley! It's can't lose as long as they can't shoot something like it back at our guys!

Where did I read that a lone commando might have a small nuke they can strap to their leg...might have been fiction...might be real.

a small nuke.. would that be a snuke

 

[mikea]

a small nuke.. would that be a snuke

A commando would stealthily slither so as to sneak the snuke into the sinister lair, activate the snuke detonator with the inevitable huge NIXIE timer display and subsequently stealthily and sneakily scram to safety from the snuke.

 

[kgruber]

I guess I remember the F-102A interceptor a little different.

We quite definitely had nuclear tipped Falcon guided missiles. Although we had 1.7" rockets as well.

Karl
Oregon Air National Guard 67-72
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAFVxTYJnpw

 

[p1l0t]

"What in Sam Hill?" - John King

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[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

I guess I remember the F-102A interceptor a little different.

We quite definitely had nuclear tipped Falcon guided missiles. Although we had 1.7" rockets as well.

Karl
Oregon Air National Guard 67-72
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAFVxTYJnpw

Was the target an A-26?

 

[maddog52]

I posted this somewhere else but that's me maintaining an Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM, AGM-89) while in the 416th MMS, SAC, GAFB, NY in 1981:

(back of my head is closest to the camera)

Yes that was a classified area, and no, I don't know when the pics were declassified.

We had official photographers in the bay twice in 3 years.

I think that is an AGM-86.

 

[dmccormack]

I think that is an AGM-86.

yep - typo. Good catch!