It’s surreal watching these once classified nuclear weapons handling videos like a normal KZread video.

@user-se7es6uc8v

3 ай бұрын

You're telling me. I was involved in this in the RAF in the eighties and signed the official secrets act four times, which means I can never discuss it in detail and must take this information to the grave. Here I am watching it on KZread!

@AquaTeenHungerForce_4_Life

3 ай бұрын

@@user-se7es6uc8v Not so sure this has been declassified as it doesn't have a Declassified bumper anywhere in the video or the description. Anyone who's ever had a Security Clearance knows that until it has been declassified, it's still classified. I saw one comment that they didn't know this was declassified, but then they went on to comment about drogue chute tourqe. I'm playing Devil's Advocate here of course, its a curse.

@danmaltby3271

3 ай бұрын

its surreal watching kids that can barely grow a mustache, fresh out of high school handling such serious equipment.

@mcleodclan

3 ай бұрын

All the juicy bits edited out though.

@Gringo.the.Bratan

26 күн бұрын

How did it feel carrying weapons of complete annihilation? Knowing WW3 could start anytime ? ​@@user-se7es6uc8v

My crew load crew on the F-16 used to complete this load in 30 minutes to include power on ops check of the aircraft, safety wire and sealing of the nuclear consent, impulse carts installed and transferred to the aircrew custody. Then again, we were evaluated every month on our proficiency in load training. Real B-61's used for alert were delivered in impeccable condition, like jewelry. If they weren't, was a huge problem with funny names like bent this, broken that and dull. If you know you know. This video shows the Marines but pretty much the same for USAF fighters. Even 20 years after I retired, I can almost read from memory the steps from the checklist. Cool video.

@davidmurphy8190

3 ай бұрын

All 710 pounds of the Mark 61?

@heeder777

3 ай бұрын

B-61. About 700 lbs. later mod 12’s were more because they were designed as penetrators.

@spacewolfjr

3 ай бұрын

I'm curious, when the B-61 is/was dropped how does the electrical cable linking the plane and weapon detach? It seems like the weapon is dropped with the cable attached?

@heeder777

3 ай бұрын

@@spacewolfjr There is a wire rope attached to the connector that is secured inside the pylon. When the bomb drops, the wire rope pulls in the connector which has movable locking tabs that allow it to easily be disconnected from the bomb receptacle. The other wire rope assembly goes to the parachute extractor which depots the chute as the bomb falls away.

@randylahey2242

3 ай бұрын

Did you stand behind the nuke and act like the nuke was your unit?

CAUTION: If the weapon ready/safe switch is in the READY position, set the switch to SAFE and notify proper authorities. And report to the PX for new underpants.

@rael5469

3 ай бұрын

Why ? Isn't the weapon supposed to be "Ready" when loaded onto the aircraft?

@JinKee

3 ай бұрын

@@rael5469 nope. Safe when loading onto the aircraft. The pilot makes it ready in the process of weapon release. Ready means it is ready to detonate.

@rael5469

3 ай бұрын

@@JinKee I see what you are saying. On Air Force bombers they had the "Coded Switch" to arm the weapons. The code to enter was one of the Secrets in the flight crew's "Secrets package." I'm not sure but I would imagine those codes were classified as "Top Secret." They could only be carried by officers carrying side arms. That was a long time ago. I don't know what their procedures are now days.

@foxxy46213

3 ай бұрын

​@@rael5469that's the boom setting

@LinusJohansson-yu7cy

3 ай бұрын

Yes, and don't be tempted to press the launch button. At least wait until you're airborne before sending the nuke!

I was a member of the A-4M Nuclear Weapons Loading Team in the mid 1980s. Why they picked me ? I don’t know . I was not an Ordinance guy, but the next thing you know I was in the Personnel Reliability Program . We loaded this weapon and a couple others too. The cannon plug attachment to the pylon could be a pain , putting the lead slug on the brass break away wire on the DCU was tricky , it had to be crimped on ,if you dropped anything in the cockpit and could not be certain you removed all FOD you could cause a lot of work for others. Thankfully it never happened to me . The steps in the video seem to be identical to my memory of it . We had a perimeter around the weapon and aircraft with armed sentries though. Based on the training we got and how we were told we could never ever discuss anything we learned or did I’m surprised this video is available . Thankfully we never had to use these weapons, and thank you for sharing it .

@Cybrludite

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service.

@leisti

3 ай бұрын

Yet here you are discussing it.....

@richwest6282

3 ай бұрын

Where in the world were Marine Corps A-4s gonna drop B-61s? Oh, nevermind, lol

@AsbestosMuffins

3 ай бұрын

pretty sure this weapon and its aircraft are no longer in service

@leisti

3 ай бұрын

I might have misunderstood what "never ever" means.

I did the same thing in the USAF in 1974 while stationed at Bitburg Germany with F-4E's (the ones with the 20mm nose gun) we loaded with either the B-57's which were white with red trim or the B-61's that were unpainted metallic color. I was a "four man" who readied the weapons and drove the "jammer" for loading while the others readied the aircraft on a four man load crew. Both were 2000 pound classed weapons. In Germany we had about 90 aircraft so we figured maybe 50 weapons or fewer as not all aircraft would be battle ready so they wouldn't be loaded either. These aircraft once loaded were in what they called the Victor Area, while the aircraft on hot alert and loaded with AIM 7 Sparrows and AIM 9 Sidewinder missiles was called the Zulu Area. The nuclear loaded planes NEVER flew once loaded, they were the ones parked behind that 16 foot tall double cyclone fencing with locked gates and guards with dogs were a common sight. Although the hot alert aircraft were scrambled daily sometimes more then once!! That was a great job in the USAF although things were winding down in southeast Asia and there got to be fewer and fewer of us weapons troops around. My enlistment was up in 1976 and even though I enjoyed (most of) my time, I never once regretted my decision either...

In the USAF we used to call the B-61 the "Dr. Pepper Bomb," because of the selectable yield (referred to an old Dr. Pepper TV commercial saying you should "refresh at 10, 2, and 4").

@K3KTB

3 ай бұрын

We called the B-61 the "dial a blast" on our team in the Navy.

@christopherleubner6633

3 ай бұрын

Now I got an image of it going off and doctor pepper spraying everything and everyone❤😂

@patrickwalsh2884

3 ай бұрын

That was the B-57.

@thomaswood7495

3 ай бұрын

I was a 463 and never recall hearing about the Dr Pepper Bomb. It's interesting how different areas of the world have their own colloquialisms. We called it a Silver Dildo, though.....

I used to do this in 1976. It’s amazing how much I remember! We had armed Marine guards around us when loading.

I love vintage instructionals

On the carrier where I was assigned they would cart the B-61’s thru the chow hall when they were taking them from the magazine. One time and place where the sailors let the grunts be. They had their game faces on…

Handling nukes on the flightline became somewhat routine, if you could ever call handling nuclear weapons routine. Whether it was uploading a bomber or downloading one when it came off of alert....or loading them up for an Operational Readiness Inspection exercise. On one ORI my supervisor asked me if my aircraft was ready for weapons. I said all we need is the final security check and we were ready. Apparently all he heard me say was "we were ready." Because the final security check of the aircraft means from that point on the aircraft has a red rope put up around it and from then on it's two-man policy inside the red rope and therefore ready for weapons to enter next to the aircraft. Well I had my aircraft log book laying on the fire extinguisher in front of the aircraft doing sign-offs and I get a tap on the shoulder.......it's a nuke weapons package and its heavily armed convoy. I said to the security guard (wait for it) "Are you sure that is for this aircraft?" And all hell broke loose. The entire base went on alert. They considered it a bent spear. Something went wrong with a nuke convoy and Bird Colonels were suddenly on all sides of me. "Airman what do you mean holding up this convoy??? ....and so forth and so on. It was a cluster fluke. I couldn't get a word in edgewise.....and before I could even say anything...they rolled the convoy into my area without it's final security check. I looked at my supervisor and shrugged. He said, "Put up your red ropes airman." The security guards weren't even in position. They were standing behind me when there was supposed to be one in back of the aircraft. That's one story anyway. There are others.

@heeder777

3 ай бұрын

All I can say is during an ORI or an NSI (even worse) two distinct things happen, you either shine or screw the pooch. Never "You all did OK" 😂

@rael5469

3 ай бұрын

@@heeder777 That's exactly right.....and I never agreed with that method of training. I felt like we should have drilled on doing things the correct way so we would at least know how things SHOULD look......instead of the cluster X we usually engaged in.

@christopherleubner6633

3 ай бұрын

Sound like an interesting day on the base 😂

@rael5469

3 ай бұрын

@@christopherleubner6633 Never a dull moment, as they say.

Sat on alert with B-52s many a time with mark 28s and B-61 and occasionally B-53s. A whole lot of instant sunshine in that one.

@Republic9323

3 ай бұрын

"A whole lot of instant sunshine in that one" Thats a vast understatement with the B-53. Thankfully today, we no longer have any need for multi-megaton monsters like that anymore.

@Furudal

3 ай бұрын

@@Republic9323 the wikipedia page mentiones that parts of those warheads might have been preserved, for possible use for planetary defense applications, shoud a urgent need arise

@baltimoraclehdeg4270

2 ай бұрын

Wouldn't be shocked to find that the equivalent in megatonage may still be deployed as an SLBM in Soviet-era Boomers

0:44 Just noticed that skyhawk is equipped with the Flash Hood to stop the pilot being blinded by his own weapon

@jamesterrynewton4794

3 ай бұрын

So it was expected the pilot and aircraft would survive?

@30K_ACTUAL

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesterrynewton4794 you just need the pilot to think that

@JinKee

3 ай бұрын

@@30K_ACTUAL if you look up an article by test pilot Lt Col Norvin C. “Bud” Evans (USAF b. 1924 - d.2020) titled “Nuke the Pilot”, part of the test schedule Operation Redwing was to find out how close you could fly airplanes to a megaton class nuclear atmospheric test. Eventually he suffered burns and broken aircraft but he got the data and landed his airplane every time. After that the USAF developed a manoeuvre called “the goofy loop”. Since the aircraft releasing the weapon would be much closer than the Bud Norvin’s plane had come to ground zero, they asked the pilots to close the flash hood and do a dive toss to get the weapon lobbed towards the target and then keep pulling back on the stick until inverted and facing away from the target. Once facing away (according to your instruments because you can’t see outside to do pilotage with the hood closed) you rolled upright and did full afterburner out of there. Does it work? I don’t know. Maybe they tried it a couple of times before atmospheric nuclear testing got banned.

@JinKee

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesterrynewton4794 read the article “nuke the pilot” by Lt Col Bud Norvin.

@DonVigaDeFierro

3 ай бұрын

​​​​@@jamesterrynewton4794 So, Wikipedia says that the B61 can be launched at speeds of up to Mach 2, which would give the pilot a fair distance before it detonates about 31 seconds later. The B61 is also variable yield, but not exceeding ~400kt (Wikipedia says so). It makes big boom, but not the biggest boom. Alas, the Skyhawk is only capable of flying at up to 1,083km/h or around Mach 0.8. That's still about 300m/s if the pilot hauls ass. 31 seconds later that would put a distance of around 9.3 kilometers or 5.8 miles on the horizontal, plus the height at which the A-4 is flying... Yeah, I'd say there's a fair chance of surviving... But in nuclear war, the lucky ones are the ones who die immediately.

If the Soviets ever invented a bomb that destroyed clipboards, America would have been defenseless

@Ronilac

3 ай бұрын

But it is, and always will be, beyond the Russian imagination

@JohnnyWednesday

3 ай бұрын

@@Ronilac - bigot

@allen480

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnnyWednesday Time to feed your bunny rabbits Skippy.

@whirledpeas3477

3 ай бұрын

This is the war room. You guys can't fight here

@dusktilldawny666

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget Brilcream...

There are details and images, especially of the control panet that i've never seen before. And I've seen pretty much every picture and video that's in the public on the B-61.

@bigdevil73

3 ай бұрын

glennsmuseum

@Monty22001

3 ай бұрын

@@bigdevil73 Yes. I saw that since my post too. There is also a KZread channel called John Strangelove with a lot of different DAY control panels. Very few views and all comments are off.

Earl Heineman's Hotrod, the A-4 Skyhawk was built with long landing gear legs in order to fit earlier tactical nukes, like the Mk. 7 Thor. The B-61 was a gamechanger because of its small size in comparison.

If only some aircraft manufacturers would have similar procedures and verification

@ebikecnx7239

3 ай бұрын

Careful you'll be Arkancided

@AndrewMerts

3 ай бұрын

That's the sketchiest part of the whole Boeing debacle IMO. They do have similar procedures and verification. When someone in the Air Force lies on the paperwork they're almost certainly going to get caught depending on what it was and there's actual repercussions for it. When someone at Boeing lies and comes up with some contrived reason why they can skip the paperwork and inspections there's a tiny tiny chance that the CEO might have to make a public statement a few months later claiming to care about safety.

Wow great video. Fascinating and still relevant since the B-61 is still deployed

Now I know why my homemade nuke failed in the 60s... I didn't leave enough slack for the GWC-215 dongle through the service panel. Wish I had KZread back then! 😂

@davidmurphy8190

3 ай бұрын

The Mark 43 was a really neat design.

@Waltham1892

3 ай бұрын

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, Oughta....

@jaycee30865

3 ай бұрын

Please call your local FBI field office. They’re apparently having trouble getting through to you.

@JCWren

3 ай бұрын

@@jaycee30865Just ignore his abnormally large collection of smoke detectors, please.

Hey! It's great to see you post again. My grandfather flew F-100 super sabres for Strategic Air Command. If shit had hit the fan, he would have hit the airfield at Prague. The control tower was apparently real easy to spot. He paused to note it from the bridge he was going to fly over when he visited after the Cold War had ended.

@Gitbizy

3 ай бұрын

Which airport in Prague? There’s a dozen of them…?

@robertgaudet7407

3 ай бұрын

@@Gitbizy Dunno, wasn’t there at the time. He said they were reluctant to ever fully prime the weapon from the ground since it was one of only a few single crew aircraft armed with atomic weapons at the time, which was quite a bit earlier than this. Fifteen years earlier or so.

He's back baby

Nice to see a new vid from you!

I swear I heard Vera Lynn singing "We'll meet again" the entire time.

@ssmt2

3 ай бұрын

“Don’t know where, don’t know when”. Dr. Strangelove. That’s a movie that has held up well over the years.

@TheGrimStoic

3 ай бұрын

@@ssmt2 so glad there are some who still get it

How did they never do an episode of Gomer Pyle USMC to this? Could you imagine the fun Pyle and Sgt Carter would have getting this detail?

@NachosElectric

3 ай бұрын

"Pyle!" "Shazam!" "Pyle!" "Shazam!" "Pyle!" "Shazam!"

I was a Marine I went to school to do these LOADEXs on scooters. As an I level avionics tech I started as the red line security force. I was accidentally sent to the Nuke weapons handling school by admin. I got to the school and pointed this out. But was told to go anyway! So I did. Finished first in the AO course. Then after the course I went back to the security force as the SOG. That’s how the Corps rolls!

Unbelievable. It is unreal how you get these. Amazing job man. I'd rather watch this than Mr Beast for sure.

Remember this command? "Stop the load!" Lol...VA 145 Swordsmen ADAN then, 1984-86. (AD3 when i rotated to shore duty).

@MrDromedary

3 ай бұрын

В это время я служил в Советской Армии.

Glad to see your back!! 🍻 🇺🇸 😎

We called LABS bombing the "idiot loop" back in the day.

This is fascinating stuff.

Awesome 🤙

I unloaded attack ships off the shores of Orion. Had no idea how a kid like me ended up there. Ended up moving to a new place after one of the ships caught fire. New place has beautiful sunbeams at night though.

@30K_ACTUAL

3 ай бұрын

Seen any C-glitter yet?

@RV-jq5pb

3 ай бұрын

It's hard to see with all the rain we've been getting. really makes me want to cry at my favourite rooftop hideout. i go there to collect my thoughts.@@30K_ACTUAL

This procedure was quite a bit different than the one we used on A7 loads on the Ranger in 68 in the Sea of Japan following our deployment in Yankee Station.

Wow you're back! Now what about RWP?

@videosuperhighway7655

3 ай бұрын

No need to worry about RWP when the world will end in a big radiation cloud.

Had a co-worker back in the 90's he was retired AF pilot from the 70's through early 80's flew F-4s he said they would sit on alert with nuclear weapons attached to the F-4. I once asked him how the process was done he said they went though a checkout procedure for loading the weapon. In the cockpit there was yield selector could select how big wanted nuclear bomb to be. Sometimes they would sit on alert with the engines running ready to take off.

I love the old school docs very relaxing

@jaycee30865

3 ай бұрын

They show you that this country was at one time sane. I’m not sure anymore. I am tempted to find comfort like you do but goddamn I’m truly concerned for the way things are now.

I like how the guy screwing the connection by hand @0:20 gives the thumbs up, I envy his confidence

Former Army MP here. I did a short stint as security in '76@ a nuclear warhead storage facility s. of Mainz, FRG. Mostly 155 artillery & Lance missle heads. BORING. ED drills. Air demo. drills by F4's 100' up. Their practice mission was to recon the site to see if ED (Emergency Destruct) was complete, if not, then BTSOOI (Bomb The **** Out Of It) Much movement of items via Shithooks/Huey's, always a fun time, there was always a false flag movement that faked the move of phony heads to distract the wonderful guys in the Red Army Faction & Baeder Meinhof terrorist gangs. We had authority over all who entered, all inside the Limited & Exclusion Zones, including an inspecting General who put his security badge on the wrong side, which was a duress signal. They were ordered to prone out, while we sorted the problem. Said General apparently moved the badge after going through Entry Control, mussing his uniform. He took full responsibility. After 10 months of this, I was off to a White Hat (patrol) unit, to get jumped & whacked by drunk engineers( excuse the redundancy) & dealt with serious drug (them, not me) problems. Another story.

@fredericklockard3854

3 ай бұрын

I was at an Italian missile base which had some US nukes. We had the same thing - US and Italian jets flying super low over us during drills after an emergency destruct exercise.

With the F35 and B21 carrying the B61, the grandchildren of the guys in this video are completing more or less these same procedures to this day

Nice info. if I had a Vietnam War era nuke handy. Otherwise just more history trivia, which is always fun

We still use paper TMs...although there is a slow movement toward tablets

I'd love to see the nuclear loading procedures for the Mk-15, Mk-17/24, Mk-21 and Mk-36 thermonuclear bombs. Also for the Mk/B-28 bombs.

If I was one of those guys I'd bring that big thing home to keep it as a souvenir.

I like the groovy instrumentals

Man I thought you’d disappeared for a second there don’t scare me like that

The real question is how did they load those bombs using only crayons and elmers glue?

@suspicionofdeceit

3 ай бұрын

They are Marines and adapted.

@heeder777

3 ай бұрын

The Marines eating crayons must be a fairly recent, last 10-15 years thing. I've asked retired Marine friends, and they have no idea what it's about. Can you clue us older guys in?

@alphgeek

3 ай бұрын

​@@heeder777Marines have got smarter over the years, the older ones didn't really "get" crayons. And you wouldn't let them within 200 feet of a pot of Elmer's back in the day.

We received a B-61 that was a little oily/greasy and warm to the touch. It turns out it was a Bolognese-61 and it was filled with Momma Luigi's secret recipe!

I like how it looks to be a 12 gauge shell (or pair?) that kicks the nuclear bomb off the plane.

The Grounding Cable? That's a 1/4 inch male guitar jack! I am assuming there's a Fender Twin Reverb Amp at the other end of that cable...

@aj-2savage896

3 ай бұрын

The spacing of the contact areas of the jack is different. So is the diameter. Otherwise . . . .

@oceanhome2023

3 ай бұрын

I hit the Translation button and I got the entire instructions done by Slim Pickens !!

@christopherleubner6633

3 ай бұрын

Yup an audio plug. Bet it has some serious distortion when it gets dropped😂

love the zippy muzak.

The B-61 can be released at speeds up to Mach 2 and altitudes as low as 50 feet.

The missle knows where it is becuase it knows where it isn't...

I absolutely love the choice of words in that first line of dialog: _"... utmost precautions have been taken to assure the _*_reliability_*_ of the weapon."_ That's *_reliability,_* not safety, not security, but reliability! Safety and security are a given, the military and the public want to be sure that the bomb will work if used! They know that millions of (American) lives are at risk if it doesn't. Same is still true today, regardless whether people like to admit it or not.. 👍🇺🇸☢️

@66PHILB

3 ай бұрын

Reliability also includes the weapon not detonating at the wrong time.

@ZXLNT

3 ай бұрын

Called Always and Never..

Back when I was in the Navy they were using computer punch cards to program the targeting information into the warhead package. This seems like this film is just before that time. Programming missiles to specific targets has been one of the major time consuming in readiness. The newest methods are so quick now that this film seems to be in slow motion.

@videosuperhighway7655

3 ай бұрын

Upgraded to Punch Tape now.

i think they should put a foam cutout cover thing thing on the fins incase someone bumps into it

I'm a civilian so take this for what it's worth, but I can't fathom it would be this orderly in a wartime scenario. The only time tactical nukes would be used is if NATO were up shit creek without a paddle, and Russia would almost certainly strike back, with nukes, at whatever airfield from which the strike aircraft took off so these guys would be doing this with the (virtual) certainty that they would be dead within hours.

@user-se7es6uc8v

3 ай бұрын

So I worked on a nuclear QRA in Germany with ready to go aircraft armed with these types of weapon. The aircraft were sat in hardened aircraft shelters ready to launch and the only thing necessary to do with the weapon was to pull out a single pin. The alarm could sound and from that to being airborne was about twenty seconds, maximum thirty. Everything you see in the video is conducted beforehand, perhaps days beforehand. There were always a number of aircraft ready to launch. The scenario in the film has not included this, perhaps to keep the launch sequence classified. I know for a fact that the part where the armourer removes the pin that prevents release is fantasy. If an armourer or the pilot so much as touched that pin on quick reaction alert we were instructed to shoot them dead. There was a sequence of failsafe codes that had to be completed between us and the pilot (took five seconds) and we were then to pull the pin. If the pilot attempted to taxi the aircraft with the weapon on and the codes procedure wasn't complete we were to shoot through the canopy and kill the pilot. So a lot of checks and balances after the work in the video was done. That part was certainly never filmed or discussed and was secret (and still is; I have omitted much). We practiced this over and over and never knew if it was an exercise or the real thing. The sobering part was that if it was real and they got airborne, you had a few minutes before the incoming nukes would land right on top of you.

1:06. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to have taken the jet a while to climb, and it looked like it sunk a little before the camera cut away.

@Gitbizy

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing. I know most of those A4s were underpowered but that seemed like an extraordinarily long takeoff roll.

@oldjarhead386

3 ай бұрын

None of those was true. It’s not usual for a jet to sag after take off. It’s called “establishing a positive rate of climb”.

Quick question 😅 When was this declassified? Normally like ya see on Periscope’s video or any other prior classified info, a declassified bumper before the video. Just don’t want anyone getting knocks at the door. 😂

@AquaTeenHungerForce_4_Life

3 ай бұрын

No answer... It's not a good look; there is no telling who is running this channel. Fishing for comments from prior service members seems to be pretty easy on KZread. Just because something is from the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc, and is old as dirt does not mean it's declassified, unless it specifically states so. The fact this video has none is worrying. Anyone with a security clearance knows this; comments shouldn't be talking about drogue chute torque or what selectors do in a certain position. We have an entire generation of people who do not know what life was like before the Internet. I'm sure I'm overreacting by playing Devil's Advocate here, but this is also how information is stolen.

Just like the Big Mac and its sauce, the ingredients are out in the open for public scrutiny but the ratios are the trade secret.

Oh, now I know how to charge a nuclear bomb! All that remains is to get it, or... buy it. Thanks to KZread for the educational videos!

Are those gas generator cartridges used for the weapon ejector cylinder?

@prsearls

3 ай бұрын

Yes

Was the soundtrack added afterwards?

This could be a training film for Otis Elevator Company.

Glad to see you're back! Nine months is a long time, were you pregnant? 😂 Hope to see more from you.

Anyone know if this is MCAS Yuma or El Toro? The aircraft is a A4M “Super Mike”, VMA-214, “Black Sheep”. I’m guessing El Toro.

@orangelion03

3 ай бұрын

El Toro. There are trees =)

@leoniousmumblescraper1311

3 ай бұрын

@@orangelion03 And smog.

@dilbertnewton6864

3 ай бұрын

Also blimp hangers.

@randykelso4079

3 ай бұрын

Doesn't look much like Yuma to me.

First of all: who gave the Marines a nuclear weapon?

Обязательно бахнем!

Dr Strangelove approved

Solid state cables and analog detents. Retro.

"Hands and feet clear."

They ALL had crayon particles in their teeth, I seent it!

CHECK!

@felipel.r.637

3 ай бұрын

VERIFIED!

I maintained W70's. Scary beasts. Pu core with Tritium assist. So yeah, a "neutron bomb". (Not classified.)

The fire fighting equipment looks ancient.

I assume this isn't the rapid reaction force.

@heeder777

3 ай бұрын

The only time you would load a live weapon would be for ready alert or an exercise. The aircraft coming off alert doesn’t get download until its replacement is loaded, cocked and locked. Time standard for fighters was an hour to do the load. No rushing allowed.

Has anyone seen the 10 mm socket, also I can't find the three rolls of duct tape listed on the Manifest

by the time they get airborne, we done lost...

I didn't realize a Scooter had that much room underneath. Try an F-18.

@peterstickney7608

3 ай бұрын

It was originally designed to carry the Mk 7, back in the early '50s. The Mk 7 was a big beast, so the Scooter got its long, spindly legs. If you can find a picture of an A-4 carrying a Mk 7 in flight, it looks like the plane is riding a Zeppelin - it's hard to say who's carrying who.

The rank of Sargent was not needed in the Air Force in the 1980s to sign for possession of nuclear weapons on an aircraft. Looking back that seems amazing but.....there it is.

Does “Always and Never !” Ring a Bell ?

Everything was groovy until PFC Homer Simpson arrived on squadron.

Don't forget the white nuke curtains.

I wonder if the procedures have been updated to make it more idiotproof.

Ah yes! "The Silver Bullet ".

Did anyone else notice this but me but he says 2, 50 lb bottles of CO2 then the video shows a 50 lb CO2 fire extinguisher, then the second shot is of a 100 lb dry chemical or foam fire extinguisher. It is propelled by either CO2 or nitrogen.

Prepare for the Future: Vault-Tec

Is it a 214 Blacksheep Bird ?

think we'd all be dead by the time they've finished the checklist

Ancient 6 pin 120VAC cables.

Two Man Rule = “ Two Persons qualified in the TASK being PERFORMED.. able to detect an UNAUTHORIZED ACT ..on on part of the other ..SIR !” ., first thing I/ we had to learn to be “ PRP “( Personal Reliability Program ) when assigned to “980th Military Police Company - Sierra Army Depot - Herlong CA ( ten miles..past “ Middle if Nowhere ! Haha) .. circa 1981 ( Mission “ To Guard Items.. Documents and War Reserve Material..Vital to National Security..SIR ) ( “ The Area” is no longer there..ie SALT II Agreement required same to be “ Dismantled “ ) .. it’s just an unknown miracle that the “ Cold War” ..never got/ went “ Hot” ..I / we were 18yrs old US Army MP Private /E1 MOS 95 BR3 ( Military Police - Physical Security) and doing the MOST important task/ Job.. of our lives !

Geez, that seems a bit cumbersome, I understand the safety aspects and protocols but, seriously I would hope these would stay mounted for more than a single flight for the just in case scenario...as they do in silo's both ground and SLBM, perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about, still seems like overkill and by the time you get one loaded, it's too late

Kinda curious? Outside with NO covers? A prohibition?

El Toro?

Now where I know how to do it, where can I get the A4 and the bomb?

@Kaefermicha

3 ай бұрын

On a more serious remark, however: Imagine doing this for real - it takes ages and people would be scared as hell. Good it never happened.

@randykelso4079

3 ай бұрын

Have you tried Walmart online?

B-61 free-fall tac-nuke?

Wait, the title says 1976, but the jammer says it’s 1982?

Check 🤠 Verified 🧔🏻‍♂️

they look so much like soviet films lmao

Anyone here who loaded the AIR-2 Genie on the F106 Dart?

Looks like a B61?

Pneumatic cartridges?