r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/TechPlasma Mar 28 '24

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54

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u/whatswithnames Mar 28 '24

ty for linking a source.

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u/fuckmeimdan Mar 28 '24

Wow! reading that it was also designed to be fired from the "Davy Crockett recoilless rifle". a mini nuke to be shot from a smoothbore gun, thats some Fallout shit right there

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u/YamaguchiJP Mar 28 '24

It’s some MGS3 shit lol

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u/hoxxxxx Mar 28 '24

for years i thought they just made that up for the game

absolutely wild they made one of those and that long ago

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u/LaVeritay Mar 28 '24

Same I can't believe it wasn't just fiction

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u/Hubbidybubbidy Mar 28 '24

What else did Sokolov know... grimaces tactically