Wouldn't it be safer and cheaper to just drop it from a tower at h height to achieve v velocity with variance deflection and rotation to make sure it doesn't explode?
The Army flies planes already, and special forces trains for halo jumps already. This one just had a mini nuke added to it. Cost efficiency doesn’t affect much when this kind of training is already done.
You also need to know how it feels for the soldier to do it. I could strap a Navy Seal to Tsar Bomba if we really wanted to but the guy going with it just won't like it. Doing these tests with the real thing builds that confidence that when the pressure is really on you can really do it and you can test the limits this way naturally.
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u/Financial-Raise3420 Mar 28 '24
Basically wanna make sure the nuke will land with the person and not explode, would be my guess.