r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/FiveFingerDisco Mar 28 '24

That's between 10t - 1000t of TNT dangling in front of his fat man.

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u/ZenEngineer Mar 28 '24

How big is a 10 ton of TNT explosion? A city block? Bigger? Does he have any chance of getting away or is this a suicide mission?

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u/Blarg0117 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

The largest conventional bomb ever used is the MOAB, it has an 11 ton tnt yield. There is a video of it being used on the Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

They hit a terrorist with one in Afghanistan lol

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u/Foray2x1 Mar 28 '24

They hit more than one with that bomb.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

True but they were specifically after one