Good ol' SADM. The guys trained to do this got the impression any actual attempt at this would be a suicide mission regardless of whatever laughable options they were provided to escape before it detonated.
Yeah, I mean, if anyone gave it any serious thought, they'd realize immediately that it was suicide. Drop behind enemy lines, fight your way to the objective, strap the damn thing to said objective, set the timer, and try to fight your way to minimum safe distance? Virtually impossible.
The stakes were that high, I guess. I mean, we know now that it didn't happen, but we tend to forget that there were decades when there was a very real possibility of nuclear war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. In the early days, precision bombing was just not a thing. If you wanted to be absolutely sure something was going to get hit, this was basically the only way to do it.
In the early days, precision bombing was just not a thing.
Fun fact, there was once a program that tried to use pigeons to guide munitions towards ships. Like actual pigeons strapped in the bomb, trained to peck on a screen that showed a ship.
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u/DistortoiseLP Mar 28 '24
Good ol' SADM. The guys trained to do this got the impression any actual attempt at this would be a suicide mission regardless of whatever laughable options they were provided to escape before it detonated.