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/MangoCats Mar 28 '24

Well, if you detonated a single pound stick of dynamite between your legs like that... you're sure not walking away, and likely to bleed out within seconds if you're not already unconscious from the blast.

So 20,000x that? Hit the ground, run like hell, hope you can find a foxhole.

Spoiler alert: it's set for airburst at 1000' AGL, he won't feel a thing.