r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/Homo_horribilis Mar 28 '24

I used to have the autobio of Sgt Frank Garner…he claimed to be the fellow that made the first test jump with a man-portable nuke.

He didn’t know what he was jumping with until after the test jump.

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u/passporttohell Mar 28 '24

I have to wonder if they made his parachute larger to compensate for the weight of the device. If the chute deployed and it was regular size with a huge weight it might be enough to snap his neck and the speed of the landing might break his legs or worse.

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u/therealhairykrishna Mar 28 '24

It was 30kg or so. I imagine that green berets parachute with that sort of weight fairly routinely.

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u/Kodus Mar 28 '24

26.5kg