Posted on 04/03/2023 10:50:02 AM PDT by McGruff
The guy on the left says “What does that loud ticking mean”?
Well yeah. I don’t get this at all. At all.
We had a sailor who was convicted and imprisoned for taking pictures of the inside of his sub. Most of us who followed this thought he was dumb for doing so, but it is pretty clear there was nothing nefarious about it.
He just wanted to impress his non-military friends. But still you had to shake your head with what this guy did.
Then, you see this image?
Odd. Things have changed.
Nowadays, “bent spear” refers to preferred military personnel up for promotion...
I had to look it up. The B-61 could be dialed in from 0.5 kilotons up to something like 320 kT.
The bombs dropped on Japan were 15 and 25 kT.
If you want to read an AWESOME and entertaining book, read "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima" by James Mahaffey.
I am trained in the handling and use of radiation and isotopes, and they have a whole chapter on military accidents which are, in the way he wrote it, stunningly funny. One of the incidents he talks about is The Mars Bluff Incident
The guy, in the bomb bay of a B-47 Stratojet trying to get the bomb release safety pin to engage while draped over the bomb (and while wearing no parachute) slipped and grabbed...of all things...the emergency bomb release handle. The bomb fell onto, and through the bomb bay doors with him on top of it, for all the world, looking like he was going to do a Slim Pickens routine before he managed to wildly flail and catch onto something as he was falling out!
When they realized what they had done, the pilot suggested they had enough fuel onboard to fly to Brazil...:)
Given what I used to do for a living, this was one of the most wildly entertaining books to read, on a serious subject. And extremely entertaining, too.
Already back at pantex and repaired .......
Pink duct tape, the savior of damaged nuclear bombs. Available at a Home Depot near you!
FAS, once led by Jeremy Stone, the son of admitted Soviet paid propagandist, I. F. Izzy Stone.
Still on the Left.
...something that pink, sticky tape can repair??
These are BOMBS - not rockets.
That PST seems to have triggered a LOT of us in this thread!
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg0IYx2UcAAqW3I.jpg
Good, old grey, sticky tape and clear, slippery liquid.
Man can repair his world!
Also, training weapons/ordinance had blue markings on them.
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