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To: MarchonDC09122009
Accuracy has not been a guarantee for air-dropped nuclear weapons

Oh?

Hook a 30 yo Walleye to guide them in.

Besides; how damn 'accurate' does a nuke need to be??

28 posted on 07/20/2016 11:34:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

well consider Nagasaki. The bomb was dropped so that it did not hit ground 0.

That means that some folks in the extended error range were killed while some folks within the intended range survived. If you are in the missed area you are good. If you are in the incorrect hit area you are dead

So, at this point accuracy does make a difference (to some)


48 posted on 07/20/2016 11:40:43 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Elsie
Besides; how damn 'accurate' does a nuke need to be??

Minute of Nation State?

50 posted on 07/20/2016 11:41:17 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: Elsie; MarchonDC09122009

I was a loader back in the Seventies, and the first time I saw one of those, I was amused...they looked like they were straight out of the Fifties, with those funny fins and streamlined aluminum shape, they just looked like art deco missiles!

They could put them on an A7, and we saw a film of the delivery method where the plane would pull up into a steep climb, and at some point on the upswing, the plane would release the bomb, and then roll onto its back, finally diving to get up speed and get out of the way.

It is a weird way to ‘loft’ a bomb, but apparently they could obtain reasonable accuracy even though it looked there was no way that was possible.


67 posted on 07/20/2016 12:24:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Elsie
Besides; how damn 'accurate' does a nuke need to be??

"Almost" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nukes.

100 posted on 07/20/2016 2:48:01 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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