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Well, if you insist, I guess O.K.
Where’s the gif of Bugs Bunny hitting the bomb with a hammer?*
*Not recommended
Well it says right there on the label...”non-warranted item”.
Looks like a toy to me. From the first photo, I’d guess it is only eight to ten inches long, compared to the grains of sand it is laying on.
Thomas Newdick?
NON WARRANTED ITEM -— hummm...
Probably never locked on to a target.
Yellow and blue flag on there.. Ukraine?!
They always say that military secrets are the most fleeting.
Is it really that hard to add a small self-destruct charge that will go off a short time after being armed, to avoid this exact situation.
Never mind, that takes thinking, something we don’t get with our DEI-run military.
How did the US military get Thor’s Ax?
I still remember Gary Powers and the U-2 spy plane shot down over the former USSR in 1960.
Also, one of our most advanced stealth helicopters in Pakistan when Obama killed bin Laden.
The stealth helo was blown up by USA troops, but it is impossible to destroy every classified technology.
U-2 wreckage in a Moscow museum...
The good news - since the USA is rarely attacked, we do not get as many intact foreign weapons as our enemies do.
The U.S. had radar fused artillery shells that could produce air bursts far more effectively than timed or barometric fuses during World War II. They were withheld from combat until the Battle of the Bulge, for fear of the Germans reverse engineering them, as they did with bazookas captured in North Africa.
If you throw ordinance around, a certain amount of duds will fall into enemy hands. Probably the most valuable intelligence lost is a crypto-keyed GPS receiver. The keys have a limited validity life, and are supposed to be tamperproof. A competent enemy (e.g., China) could get an appreciation of the performance of military GPS, but not reproduce it, at least in principle.
Wouldn’t it be funny if it was booby trapped so if someone tries to reverse engineer it it explodes.🤔