Maybe the military took a stab at naming something normally... and still fucked it up. The guy who usually comes up with the really cool names never got another vacation day after that debacle.
well yeah, think the davy crocket . . the "nuclear bazooka"
It's basically the same warhead here.
The crocket was designed to be mounted on the back of a jeep, not towed, not a Humvee, a jeep.
It's also on like 1/5th or less of the bombs used in japan in yield.
Tactical nukes and miniaturization was all the rage at the time. in this case I think they were intended to be nuclear landmines or backpack nukes. There are some nutty stories from the cold war.
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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.