The 20 in 1 Flying Nuclear Doomsday Device - Project Pluto
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In 1957 the U.S. government launched a highly classified and enormously expensive Cold War project to build a nuclear weapon that was to be superior to any that had come before it. Its terrifying capabilities threatened to unleash both physical and psychological destruction on the Soviet Union. Codenamed “Project Pluto,” the program dared to imagine a nuclear-powered cruise missile that would roar at over 150 decibels, nearly as loud as a space launch, just above the tree tops at supersonic speeds. The shockwave alone would cause immense damage on the ground, yet it would also be equipped to carry 16 or more hydrogen bombs as it flew over enemy territory spewing atomic exhaust particles out of its unshielded reactor. It would be called the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM… an acronym that some believed should have stood for Slow, Low, and *Messy*…
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Imagine making a weapon so destructive and horrifying you canceled it and buried it just to make sure the enemy didn’t even think of copying you.
Soviets never considered nuclear powered missiles as reliable weapons. But today Russia is... uh
yep sounds like the russians have done exactly that.....
They may have cancelled the weapon, but they shouldn't cancel The Movie!
The good ol' boys knew how to make weaponry
@@Geworfenheit They have a nuclear-powered torpedo, the Neptune. Think I understand now why we don't receive radio signals from other life in the universe. Conflicts probably snuffed out some of those civilizations
Hearing about all these decommissioned weapons from the 50s-80s makes makes me wonder what’s going on right now with technology
I wonder how we survived! Lol
In this case, the less you know, the better. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss and this is one time, you truly don't want to know.
Ben Wengel - Rods from God
Tactical miniature singularities. - Unkown
Stuff that makes this type of stuff look like a 6 grade science project.
No limit on funding or Congressional oversight? My favorite kind of military project.
That 1.3 Trillion Dollar black hole is looking good right about now haha
Sep 10 2001 mr rumsfield where is the 2.3 trillion dollars?
Umm ill get back to you tomorrow
Hmm, as if congressional oversight means anything. America has the largest budget in the world for "education" but can't spit out students that can read or write above a 6th grade level. Shit hole countries with shoestring edu budgets turn out favorable academics. At least with the military, we get tangible results.
@@pkelly3463 Schools are too busy pushing leftwing/globalist propaganda rather than teaching useful life lessions...
@@AdmiralJT Absolutely correct. But it gets worse then that. The progressive teaching criteria doesn't include basic history anymore. Highly selective in what is taught.
Nuclear powered, flying nukes, ah the 50’s
@Pennsylvania Mike the difference is that Russia's cruising missile won't radiate everything it passes by its pollution.
@@foximacentauri7891 Is that what Putin promised you?
@Pennsylvania Mike are you a nuclear scientist? Probably not, you're way too busy telling everyone your republican opinion nobody asked for in the CZcams comment section. Building a missile that literally poisons everything it passes isn't an option to build nowadays. Russia would instantly loose its complete international reputation as country and that would have a very bad influence on its allies.
So either they really found a way to keep the radiation small or its just not powered nuclear, which I think is the most possible theory.
Pennsylvania Mike “ladies and gentlemen I give you, captain keyboard warrior”.
@Pennsylvania Mike oh look at me I just threw some smart words together and am now a real scientist!
I highly doubt that you know anything about the Russian cruise missile project other than what you read on shady websites let alone enough to make yourself a valid opinion on the project. Nobody except the Russians do. So stop pretending to.
This certainly falls into the "I'm taking you to hell with me" category of weapon
so does the "perimeter-system" in russia ;)
There's a short story called "A Colder War" by Cory Doctorow. In it these were actually built (the news of their cancellation was false), and as a last-ditch weapon they're used against Cthluhu, whom the Soviets awaken after Reagan's "hot mic" moment ("Ladies and gentlemen, I've just signed legislation outlawing Russia forever, the bombing begins in five minutes." - said as a joke but caught on an open mic). The line in the story is "They didn't even slow [Cthulhu] down."
@@thedungeondelver Charles Stross, not CD.
@@ivorjawa Thank you for the correction.
The encarnation of DOOMSDAY WEAPON.
I could listen to a 2hour dark docs podcast
Closest thing currently available is Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Annie jacobsens author of some good books
Forreal all drunk or high I can
Same!
He should go on Joe Rogan
I approve the use of this weapon.
-SATAN
@MyGodisYahweh me too, samuel
I approve the use of this weapon.
--ONYX
'I've used this weapon, on yo mama'
- yo papa - 2019
Hail Satan!!!
Jeff Sutthoff Thar’s the name of a series of Russian missiles... the Sarmat Missile family. Mirv warhead h-bomb lobbing missile’s ...
The engine was hot 8 years after decommissioning. Doesnt get any more metal than that!
General:colonel, you see USSR?
Colonel:Yes
General:I don't want to see it
Ryan Chua Bowen Nice! *smiles*
Yes
SLAM more likely destroy some another countries before it reach Russia.
TSAR
Lol you realize that it would have to fly over America as well and the allies of America in Europe. The fact that there will be an aftermath is real reason because the world will no longer give a single fuck and everyone will start nuking America and everyone else is the real danger 🤦. You need a place to live 😂😂. Radiation isn't good for your health .
Developed back in the day with the mentality of if I can't win then nobody wins.
That mentality us still very much alive, just not talked about as openly as it once was.
Which absolutely absurd.
It never went away. Israel for example still has its Samson Option retaliation strategy in place.
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A SAMSOM OPTION WEAPON, THE VINDICATOR , DOOMSDAY WEAPON......THE ZERO-SUM WEAPON.
Clearly someone must have been unsatisfied with a Mach 3 low flying cruise missile with unlimited range, and made the suggestion: "Can we make it toss out nukes along the way?"
"What if things went wrong"? That's an understatement.
Lol if anything can go wrong it'll go wrong 😂😂 that's the spirit
Two notable technologies about the SLAM...one, the exhaust nozzles were painted with a paint found in Hot Rod magazine, a paint used for car exhausts. Turns out it was even more effective than its manufacturers imagined! The guidance system developed for it was called TERCOM (Terrain Comparison), and went on to be used by other cruise missiles as well as manned aircraft.
Criminally little love for this post. Here, have a thumb and a comment.
the point of Project Pluto (named for the God of the Underworld / death), was for a Final, Giant Middle Finger Reltaiatory strike. it is a last resort, after the USA has been destroyed by a russian attack. thus it's complete focus on utter destrution of the enemy, with the assumption that there are no innocents left. Mutually Assured Destruction, was the name of the game. honestly, a Genius system, that thankfully was not needed.
Exactly. Back then it was telling the other guy we were going to kill them deader then they were going to kill us.
Noone outside Hollywood believed in MAD. You can't actually destroy a large country using a nuclear arsenal like we have today. All non- urban population and most command infrastructure would survive for many rounds to come. There is simply no such thing as a "last resort" for a large, nuclear triad nation.
The plan after a Soviet strike was to use those remaining resources to force them to fund reconstruction and make them suffer in the process, not to hit them back or destroy them. They become the golden goose.
Accordingly, the idea of a project like this was not to raise a middle finger from a sinking ship, but to make destruction possible - a devastating strike without the prospect of counter threats or paying decades of reparations. Something noone really wanted, fortunately.
yet
@@tieck4408 No. We did study MAD in international relations college political science courses in the early 1970's This was serious stuff.
Be grateful people who functioned as adults at least pertaining to this matter never let matters get to the point that a non commissioned officer got to wisecrack, "Ok, time to see if what the taxpayers shelled out for works."
Yeah, when you put it that way, I guess unmanned retaliation would be necessary if everyone in this country was wiped out. I wonder what we have now that is the equivalent...
"What Is the Use of a Doomsday device If Know One Knows About It" Dr. Strangelove
Mein Führer, I can walk
Suitably dark! While non nuclear (though sticking with WMD's), maybe "rods from God" would be worthy of an episode?
Projects like this may end, but the knowledge gained is never forgotten.
I love the smell of neutrons in the morning
Ram jets are no joke, now a nuclear powered ram jet rocket...
Only in the 50s
And now, Russia is already in the prototype phase with thier new project.
The insanity of warmongers on the planet is mind-boggling
I would point out they Dropped the idea... Along with Salted bombs, neutron bombs, orbital Nuke armed platforms, Atom Bomb powered Rockets...so there is some sanity in the System. And on the positive side...all these insane projects finally proved without a doubt an in no uncertain terms that no weapon could be built that would allow either side to SURVIVE much less win a Nuke fight...
@@wbnc66 Yes m.a.d. let's hope another hitler type person or group doesn't gain enough power to change that.
@@likearockcm the US has that potential now!
@@donnydanger273 lolololololololololololololololololololololololololol come on man get a thought process
The scientist coming up with weapons are not warmongers that would be the politicians
The thought of that machine, and that anyone even considered building and using such a thing, has terrified me on a visceral level since I first heard of it over 30 years ago. To be confronted with such a horror would be truly inhuman. That's government work for ya.
I would disagree. It was great work. With weapons like that we could negate RUSSIA, IRAN and NORTH KOREAN. IF they dare threat the DOOMSDAY NUCLEAR MISSILE WILL EVEN THE SCORE.
I love the Narration in these Dark Docs. Hard to believe we went so long with Dark 5 without narration.
Watching these types of videos, Dr Strangelove seems more and more like a documentary..
all it needs is a seat and ape hangers and id ride it
@@Q5Grafx yeah f*** it, me too!!
"Showering American allies in western Europe"
Remember when the US had allies in Europe? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
And I remember those commercials - ROLF
We're still friends with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and anyone else who can help manipulate our elections.
+Pennsylvania Mike
*slow clap*
@Pennsylvania Mike sources?
@Pennsylvania Mike You're so busy freaking out about the Clinton family you can't see how you've become a stooge for the Trump family. They're both a mirror image of each other and you're still being played like a pawn.
Billy didn’t want a boring science fair project. Billy wanted the coolest science fair project ever; one that no one on Earth would ever forget.
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb"
I can't help that manic swelling of laughter
i cant really imagine what it would be like to have a beast like this roaring around a hundred feet or so off the ground at mach 2.5 with radioactive exhaust.
It would deafen, flatten, and irradiate everything around it before it dropped a single bomb.
Russia just had an accident with one of these nuclear types of missiles.
Link? You've piqued my curiosity
Link please
Nuclear powered hypersonic ICBM interceptor
@@tonetonic2013 tyvm
Ronald 240Bravo oh shit, hope the civilians in Europe are ok.
The Cold War was a class on it's own.
And the thinking and IQ power was second to none. Their weapons were hell-spawned Machiabellian entities spawned in Dantes Inferno.
"Listen, this is gonna be one hell of a Nuclear missile. Afterwards, we'll be lucky if we have any DNA left."
There's a supervillain somewhere waiting to build this.
stone1andonly he has. Putin. It blew up and they are still trying it. Hope it turns around and lands in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Elon Musk
"The human ear drum bursts at 160" *laughs in tinnitus*
"what?" Literally me 6k times a day
Another outstanding topic! Awesome stuff Dark Docs, keep up the great work!
First Dark Docs I actually thought was exceptionally "dark". Truly a doomsday machine.
Really liking your vids! Well narrated, apparently well researched, nice editing, suprising stories that I haven`t hears 100 times before. Nice job!
Jeeze that sounds like one of the most dangerous things ever invented.
7:55 "the lead bricks that held it in place melted into puddles"
lead melts at 620°F though.. most family BBQs can reach that temperature lol
not that hot even
Yeah I was thinking that too. I bet they were intended to melt
If you look at the picture, it's as if your BBQ melted them while they were 2 meters away.
@@Garganzuul that still isn't very hot......
If it had totalled some sort of ceramic sheet a few centimetres thick then I would be impressed, and worried haha
@@longnamedude3947 They built it out of ceramics. It would not work if it could do that.
You need a LOT of heat to melt BRICKS of lead into puddels in just a few seconds, its not about the melting point but about the enegry you need to melt a massive block of it in just a few seconds
Everytime I new one comes out I make a tea and have bit of time to myself could watch a full length one easily
I love hearing you talk about Cold War stuff like this
I know a ton about the world wars but I’ve never really looked into this era
Thank you ❤️
Because flying nukes are *always* a smart idea XD
And now Putin is trying to bring this idea back to life, it's already cost a number of Russian scientists their lives.
@@MrMattumbo Also, Severodvinsk was handled just like Chernobyl. Everyone knew something nuclear had exploded because civilians there have dosimeters at home just for this kind of an event (the city is a nuclear sub base), yet the Russian government denied everything at first.
LOL LOL LOL
@@MrMattumbo I hope you are kidding?????? A weapon that you would have to crash into the earth to stop it? Jeez . We truly are a doomed society. Sounds like something the Iranians would love to deploy.
@@dancolley4208 I'm not sure the specs on the new Russian model, it's quite a bit smaller, but yeah it's an air-cooled reactor ramjet that can fly for a week or more at least. Don't know if they'll get it working since the accident blew up a lot of the scientists working on it, but the fact they were about to test fly it shows they have a serious disregard for safety and the environment. But that's not even the worst doomsday device Putin has cooked up, they've got a nuclear-powered drone submarine that carries a 200 megaton salted warhead. That thing can supposedly sneak up on the American coast and sit dormant until it's needed, then it'll unleash a blast and resulting tsunami that wipes out the east coast and floods a 100 miles inland. It's salted too, meaning it's specifically designed to release additional radioactive contaminants (I believe radioactive cobalt and/or cesium) which unlike normal fallout will not easily disperse and are exceptionally harmful to life. It's the type of weapon that could actually make life extinct if used in multiple locations around the world.
Putin is kind of a dick, he's worried US anti-ballistic missile technology will destroy the MAD equilibrium so he's building all sorts of new weapons that can evade that missile defense. Even though we have nowhere near enough interceptor missiles to defend against a Russian attack, so idk why he's so fucking scared that he's willing to test nuclear-powered cruise missiles or build doomsday nukes. But oh well, at least he's not bat shit crazy like the Iranian government so I don't lose sleep over it.
I believe that I heard that during this process they created ways to make shielded reactor engines which had little or no fallout. If that's the case, this tech could be used for many applications in both civilian and military aircraft.
"Let us build a weapon that kills everybody including those who launch it."
"Yeah -why not."
Shame they didn't use the tiny nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes. Imagine having tiny power stations able to produce that amount of power with almost no carbon emissions.
It would have no use for producing electricity
@@JohnFrumFromAmerica Why do you say that?
@@pogue972 because it was only designed to heat air as part of a ram jet. There is no way to convert the design to drive a shaft to run a generator in addition is spewed radiation as it was an open reactor design so even if it could produce electricity you wouldn't want to use it for that anyway
@@JohnFrumFromAmerica yet how all nuclear power plants work jaja nuclear fission heats water using a open reactor that pumps out radiation. You could use the reactor to heat water the same way if you enclosed it and done the same thing as a normal nuclear plant.
Alas the sad thing is that if you have nuclear reactor fuel you can easily make it into a devastating weapon. Even if you can't get a fissile chain reaction going due to the isotopes of the fuel you have, you can still make a dirty bomb. It's why some small warlike countries are not given access to the resources needed to make nuclear reactors
I love how your videos is ominous, yet historic.
7:50 Lead being known for its traditionally high melting point.
These where large bricks, 6 ft+ away, melted in seconds.
this whole concept seems too crazy to consider..
Damn that incoming blast wave and sound is next level 0:45
FYI: The human ear drum does not burst at 160db as I have been in vehicles w/large sound systems that produce levels around 165db and have been outside of some that produce 170-180db and yes even being near them hurts your body! I've also done work at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and have been to many launches throughout my life that are incredibly loud
This thing would kill anyone below it just by its shockwave alone.
The concept wasn't completely abandoned, while using a nuclear engine for speed was abandoned the concept was successfully applied using swarms of smaller but slower missiles.
The Tomahawk cruise missile uses the same terrain following radar as was developed for the Pluto missile.
Great video again Dark Docs thanks for posting 👍👍👍
Awesome channel, Subscribed. Please turn up the volume, this is one of the quietest channels I subscribe to. Thanks.
"Who Needs Allies, when the World Kneels at Your Feet in Abject Terror?"
isis employed by the USA....
Jean-Luc Martel Guess who started Al Qaeda
You're right they're not, they're postering. It's what they've done the last 75 years. America has the means and knowledge to bring Russia and China to their knees at any moment... but most people don't want the potential end of the world via global nuclear detonation.
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me an average American- Were really not as ruthless and mean as most other nations
After watching this - yo wtf
This was our "quiet kid who had enough" phase.
You really believe that?
Oh boy the middle east is looking at you 😂😂
This is a good one. Some of the vid recently I had already knew the story of, but this one is new to me 🤙
brilliant delivery of a scary subject, taa
Humanity is disgustingly evil at it's lowest. It's amazing we're even alive.
Not evil, we're just selfish and look after our own interests and fuck the rest.
I disagree. Humanity is amazingly creative
This weapon platform would explain some bizarre occurrences of persons suffering radiation poisoning from the overhead flight of unmarked military aircraft escorted by other unmarked military aircraft of known designs that occurred in the 1960 's and disparaged as UFO sightings. Some incidents occurring in rural areas of Texas.
Man you are putting these videos out so often now!
Only your mom puts out more.
So informative. Great CZcamsr
Now, 60 years later, Russia claims they have & made this too!
Unfortunately
actionman935 Nothing Russia claims to have actually works though.
@@rifleshooterchannel208 True! Russia is 'known' for many failures! ;- ) But, Russia 'claimed' they have a 'hypersonic' missile, and 'it could be' nuclear powered! (A Russian "flying crowbar"?)
Rifle Shooter Channel .... the threat is enough to be effective. No western leader is going to bet any nuclear weapon and delivery system won’t work
@@actionman9357 Russian space technology is actually pretty reliable and safe, when they're actually wanting it to be. Look at the Sojus rocket for example.
Interesting, from 60 years ago and Russia has recently announced it has developed a nuclear powered cruise missile with a nuclear warhead and virtually unlimited range.
There was a late 50s sci fi movie that used almost the same story. "The Lost Missile". This juggernaut nuclear nightmare enters earths atmosphere and destroys countries by flying over them with atomic radiation that incinerates everything in its path. Amazing how hollywood gets information so quickly. It would be hard to call it "parallel development" when the movie is really close to this actual story.
Great video - insane subject
This is my favorite dark doc... I am a nuclear fanatic and NEVER HEARD of Project Pluto.
Thank You 🙏
You should watch Curious Droid
S.L.A.M. apply directly to the Motherland!
This is the closest thing humanity has ever come to actually building a Death Star.
Fantastic work great channel
So immediately after looking at the title I'm thinking of a nuclear Swiss army knife.
Ahem shhhh
Dont tell them
"a weapon to surpass metal gear ?" :P.
Here is a summary of all the nifty features of the SLAM missile, as the video documents:
1) Flies 3-times the speed of sound, low to ground, in a zig-zag motion, making it virtually impossible to track or shoot down, for months without stopping, along a path that could be 5-million miles long (i.e., assuming it flies for 3-months at 3-times the speed of sound).
2) As loud as 150-decibels, so that everyone it flies over becomes deaf.
3) Its shockwave causes massive damage to all buildings it flies over.
4) It constantly sprays out a vast cloud of deadly nuclear waste, causing severe radiation poisoning in everyone it passes over, and rendering all land along its path uninhabitable for many years.
5) Drops a hydrogen bomb on as many as 26 cities before it runs out of fuel.
6) When its nuclear fuel is finished, the SLAM missile itself crashes into a city, causing massive destruction and again spraying a massive amount of deadly radioactive waste over its final target, rendering the land uninhabitable for many years.
Oh come on! I think we can do better than that. Maybe stick a bunch of high power lasers all over its surface that just randomly shoot laser beams in all directions as it flies, blinding civilians and setting buildings on fire as it goes. And they could probably include thousands of canisters of biological weapons, and just shoot those out randomly as it flies along, to get anybody not effected by the deadly radiation. And maybe even include a few "bat bombs" for good measure. There is always room for improvement! ;)
As my school master would say...THERE IS ALWAYS A LOT OF ROOM for improvement.
Very interesting, you should do a video on the Samson option.
8 years and could still only stand near it for a min or two dang that's crazy great vid
By 'hot' he means radioactive, and I don't suppose you could stand next to it for very long even today!
@@keithwortelhock6078 ok ok that makes sense and I would assume not
It would not have been "heat" in the conventional sense.
The Reactor was unsealed. He is referring to Heat being emitted by the Radioactive material.
Modern jet engines generate heat around 2,000 degrees. That dissipates reasonably quickly.
Imagine All the Lost and Forgotten weapon's Laying in some old hanger on an Island...
TInian Island?
That's the most horrifying weapon I've ever heard about. I'm glad it was shut down. I wonder where that reactor is today?
I like the new transition slides
Woulda been interesting to see how they intended to test that one without the Soviets noticing it
It's funny you say that, because we just found the Russians testing their own version of this device a few months ago. They call it skyfall, and it's a breach of aboveground nuclear testing treaties.
Derek Anon Hmm I hadn’t actually heard of this. I meant this more in the context of the 1950s, with no recon satellites and only limited strategic recon planes.
Any sort of report from spies or another source would’ve been hazy, and kind of likely to cause a crisis escalation. Something along the lines of “Oh well you have a nuclear powered missile than can fly indefinitely and carry a bunch of nukes? Well our strategic bombers are crossing the Iron Curtain, and our subs are now launching”
From what I remember reading, the intention was to have it (first the prototype then the active missile) fly a holding pattern over an island in the Pacific. The prototype was to have a large cable acting as a tether in case the electronics went haywire and directed it somewhere. (No I have no idea if that would have worked in reality)
ptonpc Fair enough. The whole project would’ve still become obsolescent pretty quickly though, once recon satellites became a thing.
For starters, it would’ve been a constant, even more immediate menace to the other side. Any indication of a strike would almost certainly have resulted in a ballistic missile launch
@@jeffreytam7684 Google Eastman Kodak discovering the Manhattan Project. In fact in 1951 The Atomic Energy Commission started giving them dates and maps of nuclear tests so they could plan ahead and not have their product destroyed.
I always wondered about using an unshielded reactor as a heat source in the middle of a jet engine. You could potentially exit the atmosphere with such an engine and feed liquid hydrogen into the chamber in order to produce thrust.
Yeah, a combined engine like that could be useful for SSTO spaceplanes; wouldn't require the bulk of two different types of engines, or a droppable jet engine module. Is hydrogen at all usable as a jet fuel?
Yeah it sounds like the NON nuclear prototype performed very well and the Ram Jet is so simple to make . I am intrigued about using the sonic boom to wreck and kill every thing . Those railway car prototypes were comically big but the small wind tunnel model looked feasible.
Nuclear thermal rockets have been built and tested (look up NERVA), but never flown. So we know they work, and would be useful in spaceflight outside the atmosphere.
I usually just wonder what color are her panties?
I'm sitting here with my mouth agape . What group of irresponsible human beings could even think that a machine that would fly at relatively low altitude, horrendous noise levels, at mach three, spewing radioactive contamination in every direction over friend and foe alike, contaminating the earth, our water supplies, our food stocks, indefinitely, was an idea worthy of unlimited funds and no congressional oversight?? Are the stark raving phucking idiots? Shake your collective heads people. Thank God that some more stable heads prevailed at the time but shit. And we are now worrying about global warming. this box of tricks would have destroyed the human race without even having to declare a " special operation" . Is this what Poutine's based his Armageddon weapons on.
Reading about this was truly chilling
"You May Live to See Man-Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension"
Tesla was right
That opening got me shook! Subbed
If this is the stuff that we're able to learn about now, 60 years later, makes me wonder what do they have under wraps now?!
The Discovery Wings channel ran a show about the Pluto project back in 1988, so it hasn't been a deep, dark secret for decades.
3 months ago an incident occurred at a navy testing range in Russia where an explosion occurred, this explosion was caused by a nuclear powered and nuclear armed cruise missile, similar to project PLUTO SLAM, meaning that the Russians have been working on a missile similar to it
Coniver Divide not surprised. Countries copy and steal info from other countries.
The Russian one obviously works on a very different principle.
Obviously the Reactor or Nuclear heat source is contained. Nobody knows what caused the explosion. Possibly a conventional Rocket to launch the Russian Missile.
The Radiation alert only lasted for 30 minutes. It was measured at about the same level as you get from an Xray.
We will simply have to wait to find out.
The Russians use the word "Nuclear Battery". It possibly is not powered by a Reactor as we know it.
Only the Russians know.
It will be only used for defense
Stealing all public information
I love the narration in these videos
I love weapons... bombs, guns, etc; but I wish nuclear weapons were never invented. Such short-sightedness
The most WH40k real weapon I’ve ever heard of.
Keep in mind one important point. This was "designed" as a true weapon of last resort. If the USSR was winning a nuclear war and all hope seemed lost, then and only then, were these missiles, (aka agents of death), were to be launched. Kind of a larger version of "If I can't have her, nobody can."
This was a horrible system to be sure. I can't imagine what would go through a commanders mind before he sent these off to "do the voodoo that they do, so well." Just flying so close to the ground would "jellyfy" a persons inner organs. Add to that the toxic exhaust, I am not sure you could be in your right mind to launch such a system. Turn the key for an ICBM launch? Sir, yes sir.
Launch several dozens of these things?
Do it yourself commander.
Yep, if I can't win, then nobody can either. I lose, everyone else does to.
M.utually
A.ssured
D.estruction
The very definition of mad.
Almost like Israel’s Samson option
Chapter XIII yes. This is very true. But look at the outcome. The Soviet Union is no more and all without firing one nuclear weapon. Say what you will but it worked! Praise God.
The alternative to this is so ghastly, so unimaginable, so horrid, we really cannot conceive it.
@Habi8805 very funny? Ask the USSR if it's funny
Oh wait you can't because they failed decades ago lol
USA USA USA 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I’d like to see DarkDocs 50 years from now...I’ll hear about those wildly crazy projects from the 2020s
Always so spooky
Fat lot of good shutting it down did. Russia just tested this same type of missiles recently.
Aye. Pacifism is a luxury of the powerful.
This is the most American thing ever.
If it dropped Big Macs along with the nukes I would agree with you.
According to news reports, the Russians are developing a clean burning nuclear powered cruise missile
@@wpherigo1
Nothing new.
Early version of PLUTO incorporated a primary nuclear reactor with a secondary heating (combustion chamber) in the airflow.
The primary used a liquid metal catalyst through a sealed heat exchanger into the secondary, eliminating the radioactive exhaust.
SLAM was developed SPECIFICALLY for irradiating the USSR in addition to deploying specific nuclear weapons.
@@wpherigo1 The USA already has nuclear capable cruise missiles
@@wpherigo1 "clean burning"
Brilliant video
- 8:40 missteps like successful building and running of this monstrosity. the 60s were wild man
7:45 - The nuclear reactor is called the TORY IIA, not the TROY IIA. Good doc.
Soo the US was gunna drop a nuclear reactor on a nuke in a hole in the ocean?? tf america
What do mean by "Us"?
HighSpeedNoDrag “Us” meaning America, you fool
Well,,, the Usa has also lost 3hydrogen bombs that they cant find again!
doesnt surprise anyone that the USA drops nukes here and there sometimes.
Using the Term "Us" and or "We" tends to lean towards the question were you Directly Involved? If you do not understand, I have Zero pity for you. I did not ask you the question. I asked Richard.
@Richard Ensey KSI just beat ur ass. We gotta do it again??
God damn the boom at 0:50 scared the shit out of me
I was just reading about this in John Pina Craven’s amazing book. As usual Dark Docs, NAILIED this one. I have no idea how you get some of this footage but - boy do I want in. I have a project idea. A good one. Please get in touch with me and let’s make something amazing.
Dr. Strangelove, do we have such a weapon?
So they were going to dump the reactor into the deepest part of the ocean... Fast forward ... And Godzilla wipes out Tokyo.
reminds me when we usually throw the nuclear waste and discarded weapons on the ocean.maybe there are some baby godzys down there,not knowing they can come and have fun from us.
Didn't watch the video: the software created for this missile's navigation system is still in use. It relies only on terrain data saved on the device and onboard radar. Used in modern cruise missiles.
No wonder those aliens have been here since atleast the 40's.