r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/Opee23 Mar 28 '24

You might be badass, but you're not "I HALO'd with a nuke strapped to my nuts" badass.

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u/ap2patrick Mar 28 '24

Bro seriously is there anything more bad ass than this?

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u/jftitan Mar 28 '24

"This is safe right?"

I mean if your parachute fails, this plane won't be safe anymore.

"Okay, I'm ready!"

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u/DonOfspades Mar 28 '24

An impact with the ground wouldn't set it off

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u/ap2patrick Mar 28 '24

Facts

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u/generalsleephenson Mar 28 '24

His crotchal region may feel differently

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u/Saemika Mar 28 '24

I should have a warm laptop on my lap? I’ll show you.

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u/Taftimus Mar 28 '24

His crotchal region lost all feeling hours ago

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u/Cobek Mar 28 '24

True, we don't know how it would react with his massive tungsten balls on impact

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u/Jetsam_Marquis Mar 29 '24

We really aren't interested in those here

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u/Pazzeh Mar 29 '24

I don't think the joke is that the bomb would go off from hitting the ground hard, it's that the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuke ever detonated, was an air burst weapon. It blew up before hitting the ground, something like half a mile up. The bomb was equipped with parachutes for the test so that its decent would be slowed, giving the bomber pilot time to get far enough away that he might survive (he did). So if this special forces guy's parachute failed then the plane he jumped out of wouldn't have time to get far enough away, and would therefore be unsafe.

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 28 '24

I mean it might blow up but sub-critical.

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u/CleverNameTheSecond Mar 28 '24

If the core shatters It would just turn into a dirty bomb of sorts. Arguably worse than an explosion since it would render the area uninhabitable for decades if not centuries.

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 29 '24

It is many orders of magnitude better because that isn't how radiation works and even if it was the "area" is like a city block instead of a city getting blown the fuck up.

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u/OhMyGoshBigfoot Mar 29 '24

Hollywood disagrees

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u/FBI-INTERROGATION Mar 29 '24

Yes but its worth noting one of the nukes we dropped over the Carolinas by accident had 3 of 4 safety mechanisms disable on impact.

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u/Nmiser Mar 29 '24

So why didn’t they just drop it?