To: Timber Rattler
There are no backpack nukes.
The smallest are past human conveyance.
3 posted on
02/10/2014 5:29:09 AM PST by
Texas Fossil
(Texas is not where you were born, but a State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
To: Texas Fossil
Maybe not now, but there were.
4 posted on
02/10/2014 5:31:20 AM PST by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Texas Fossil
When hauling the weapons on foot, things were even more difficult. Dan Dawson, an ADM engineer, remembers how difficult it was to run with a backpack nuke. During a training exercise, his unit simulated a mission to blow up a railroad tunnel but found it difficult to move a SADM across a patch of open ground.
"To get [the SADM backpacker] across this open area in a hurry, two of us, one on each side, had to support him under his arms and trot with him across this open area. You could carry it, but you couldn't run with it."
6 posted on
02/10/2014 5:32:41 AM PST by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Texas Fossil
The
W54 device was "10.75 inches diameter (270 mm), about 15.7 inches long (400 mm), and weighs around or slightly over 50 pounds (23 kg)".
A fit man can carry a 50 pound backpack a long distance.
7 posted on
02/10/2014 5:37:05 AM PST by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Texas Fossil
If there were,where are they now?
11 posted on
02/10/2014 5:45:39 AM PST by
Renegade
To: Texas Fossil
The Davy Crockett
http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/davyc The W54 warhead used on the Davy Crockett weighed just 51 pounds and was the smallest and lightest fission bomb (implosion type) ever deployed by the United States, with a variable explosive yield of 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 10 tons of TNT...
12 posted on
02/10/2014 5:45:41 AM PST by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Texas Fossil
We war-gamed using them in Command Post Exercises in the 80s.
14 posted on
02/10/2014 5:53:56 AM PST by
sgtyork
(Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
To: Texas Fossil
I have one in my garage.
I bought it at a yard sale.
28 posted on
02/10/2014 7:32:56 AM PST by
kennyboy509
( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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