B61 Forever

Strategy Page ^ | 7/7/2010 | Strategy Page

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[sinanju]

Hi there!

[sinanju]

Big John

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Ping

[Steely Tom]

I thought it was “Dear John.”

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Its “Dear John”

[oyez]

Honest John, named for one of Robin Hood's collective?

[oyez]

Seems to me the B61 was modified for the Bomarc SAM missile. The theory was that it would be capable of taking out a squadron of Soviet bombers in one shot. Or it could be used in a depth charge. A half dozen of those puppies thrown into the Northeast Atlantic and the Northwest Pacific would wreck the Soviet Balistic submarine fleet.

[FlyVet]

For love and for fun it's a B61 that's amore.....

We bomb-loaders had such a morbid sense of hunor back then. Damn kids probably still do.

[NavyCanDo]

Brings back memories. As a Naval Ordinanceman I was involved about twice a deployment with practice loading of these. Security was very tight from the time they left the magazine until they were safely back. The Marines had two functions on our ship, Guarding these, and guarding drunk sailors in the brig. Come to think of it I was involved with that too.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Actually, When the Pershing missiles were being dismantled they were made into a B-61 variant. Each bomb is about 340 kilotons, about 15 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A feature is AMAC (Aircraft Monitoring and Control): Equipment installed in an aircraft to permit monitoring and control of the safing, arming, and fuzing functions of a nuclear bomb or missile delivered by the aircraft.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Drinking and drunk around nuclear weapons don’t mix too well.

[rambo316]

It is long past due for some B61s to be dropped on the middle east. After 9/11, we could have done that and saved all of our war heroe’s lives. We are losing by playing this P/C war.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s like eating potato chips: bet you can’t drop just one.

[rambo316]

We should have done it long ago.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A credible threat is worth its weight in rubies.

[rambo316]

What are you saying?

[rlmorel]

I loaded these on A-7 Corsairs...I always thought they looked like futuristic bombs out of a 1950’s comic book...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If potential adversaries believed that we had the resolve (balls, whatever) to use nuclear weapons, we wouldn’t have to use them. The most persuasive argument for nuking Japan was to show them that we not only had nuclear weapons, but the will to use them. Until August 6, 1945 Japan was a nation in thrall to a suicide cult. They got over it.

Same deal with Islamist.

[rambo316]

Agree totally with you. These rag head islamists will stop at nothing to destroy this country and Israel. The joke is on us because we have been destroyed from within.