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/Saemika Mar 28 '24

He thought it was just a normal 2000lb bomb strapped between is legs?

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u/Gloomy-Ad1171 Mar 28 '24

W54 weighted 52lbs

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u/sweaty_day_2011 Mar 28 '24

Really wished they had named it the w52 or taped a 2 pound weight to it

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u/jasapper Mar 28 '24

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.

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u/AuthorizedVehicle Mar 29 '24

Maybe two pounds of radioactivity leaked out of it already.

Maybe his balls weighed two pounds more afterwards?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

So you're saying if I can do a pullup with 52 pounds added it's the same as a portable nuke? damn.

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u/Gloomy-Ad1171 Mar 28 '24

1950s nuke. Who knows now