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Usually the trucks are spaced out over miles and are very unassuming so as to not attract any attention, as the clearances regarding any knowledge of these convoys is very exclusive.
6 armored trucks with roof turrets, so figure a Quick Reaction Force of probably 40 or so bad-ass dudes armed to the teeth and supported with crew-served weapons. The Huey doesn't appear to be armed and so I suspect it is for spotting ambushes and chasing fleeing perpetrators. Pretty substantial protection right there. But not insurmountable if some terrorist group had a lot of guys, a lot of bombs and shockingly good intel. The REAL security is installed on the truck, and I happen to know that IS insurmountable. Pretty much every good anti-theft idea you can think of for that semi-truck, they've done. There's two drivers in the cab, who switch off every 6 hours or so and are remotely monitored for every second of the trip. If either driver dies in the cab, gets out of their seat when they aren't supposed to or deviates in any other way from the GPS-monitored course and itinerary, the engine self-destructs (so it can't be driven), the trailer axles all self-destruct (so the trailer can't be towed), the electronics package in the nuke self-destructs (so it can never be used again) and the whole trailer fills with polymer cement that's harder than rock and sets in just a few seconds (so the intruders can't steal the plutonium or any of the parts). Plus it sends a remote signal to the Quick Reaction Force F-16s (which ARE actually armed with rockets and guided bombs) which they keep on standby alert during convoys. Every single vehicle (plus the remote monitoring station) can activate that failsafe remotely, as well. For the record, everything I just said was acquired from open source intelligence via books and the Internet.
This actually sounds really interesting. Are there any websites you can remember talking about this? I'd really love to link a few people to them. Tired of the people constantly going on about how dangerous this stuff is as if the entire world is going to blow up if they crash or criminals stop the convoy.
Matt Lane It's a nuke you can be the most innocent person in the world but if you step food in that convoy they will shoot you without a thought they aren't risking a nuke over 1 person
Well my prime delivery men must be getting stopped by every anti nuclear weapon protesters in the universe by how many times it takes longer than 2 days for my shit to be delivered 😤
dallatorretdu, might want to double that number of axles, try 16 the Ruskies use the MZKT-79221 to carry their nukes, don't think the Yanks have any road mobile ICBMS
I can only imagine the endorsements that driver has on his license. I had to do an FBI back ground check with finger prints just for your common Hazmat license to haul fuel. Speaking of fuel, I'm amazed they let that tanker any where near that nuke.
That's not a missile transporter, it's a guidance section/warhead transporter. They drive the trailer over the silo, then open the silo door. The flaps on the side of the trailer drop down to seal the opening for environmental purposes. A winch inside the trailer lowers the guidance section then the warhead section (up to 3 warheads) onto the missile. I used to be stationed there :-)
I was part of this during an alternate base recovery excersize, no one was hurt, one man arrested for going past a deputy sheriff headed towards our convoy, we were aware of him and took precautions to prevent him from getting close to the road we were traveling. We were always under orders to shoot first, ask questions later!! We were the 92d Security Police Squadron at Fairchild AFB!
It's amazing the difference in the way the US does things, I live just down the road from Coulport where the majority of the UKs nuclear arsenal is, the convoys are usually as subtle as possible. 1 semi with a troop transport at the front and rear. All the American videos show massive elaborate convoys.
I was at the 352 MSS at Whiteman AFB, Mo 89-90. We did not use MK-19s on convoys but I did go to MK-19 school at Lackland before I PCSd to RAF Lakenheath UK.
Generally, USAF transports nuclear warheads aerially. They don't transport the warhead (which is rather small) with the whole missile. The truck *could* be carrying a nuclear warhead, but is most likely not. Definitely something important, though.
Kenneth Carson The USAF doesn't transport anything. All fissile material is property of the Department of Energy, and they transport it. Besides, the Air Force only deploys a small fraction of our nuclear arsenal. There's 450 warheads in 450 ICBMs, since they're not MIRVed, and maybe a hundred or so ground bombs. The Navy on the other hand, deploys over 2,200 nuclear weapons. 14 SSBN subs, 20 active missile tubes per sub, and at least 8 MIRVed warheads per missile is over 2,200 warheads in the NAVYs control.
Might want to go recheck your math or a little bit there are three bases each with 150 silos. One Missile field is in North Dakota another is in Montana and the third one is spread out in the Wyoming Colorado and Nebraska Corner area.
That's not a nuclear missile convoy. That's the Santa Blanca Cartel moving medical supplies. Someone hop out there and take that shit, it's worth 25,000 med points!!
I've seen a few of these and honestly- I think its more likely something else- like a movie. Ive seen a nuke transport- theyt dont draw attention to it usually
It's probably just nuclear material. Not an actual bomb. So the only danger here is if the material gets blown up. No nuclear explosion would come from it only nuclear waste. It would be highly retarded to transport a nuclear bomb that actually has nuclear material loaded in it. Always separate the gun from the ammunition when loading, cleaning, or storing your firearms...
even if it is an actual nuclear weapon, crashing the truck or blowing it up wouldn't set it off. To work properly they need all the right stuff to be activated with microsecond precision. More to the point, they are designed to fail safely in case of an accident.
What if a Tornado suddenly appeared and lifted that nuke out of its cargo and it was somehow armed. And armed nuke would be spinning 200 miles an hour, with random elevations, and in circles, heading towards Washington? WHAT THE FUCK WOULD THEY DO??
1. Its not a nuclear bomb, it has no detonator. 2. Even if it did have the detonator it wouldn't be easy to set it off 3. They would probably look at the weather. 4. That truck is far too heavy for a tornado to lift up.
Born in the wrong Reich I wouldn't doubt that, there's actually real pictures caught of a tornado lifting several semi trailers and throwing them around like there toy trucks.
My dad used to do top secret nuclear convoys in the marines. He once stayed awake for 46 hours straight guarding a missile. Tough. Job. Nothing more stressful.
Maybe he guarded static missiles at an airbase, but sorry to burst your bubble,all shit like this is transported by the DOE and the guys in the humvees are likely DOE commandos or delta force operators doing inter federal agency service.
Serendipity 242 afraid not, I'm not 100% sure on much, but I know he was on the move, maybe not for the whole trip however. This wasn't recent by the way
Yes, there is a warhead in that semi trailer. You want excitement, try physically interfereing with that convey, the and will not be pleasant. My first duty assignment was Minot AFB, ND in the missile maintainence squadron responsible for maintaining those missiles.
I was part of the 92d Security Police Squadron, we had the weapons for the B-52's and were under orders to shoot first, ask questions later!!! I'd say that is not pleasant!
This is just like something from the start of an alien movie. The helicopter coming out of a cloud of dust followed by a few 50bmg roof mounted trucks and a transformer in the middle of it all. . Sick.
Dopamine Serotonin I've been inside those trucks before, both the ones that carries the missile and the one that carries the warhead, so probably not classified.
True story, my dad back in the 60’s installed many of the minuteman missiles in ND and Cheyenne. He was driving the truck with the missile on it and his truck over heated and caught fire in downtown Cheyenne. Immediately causing an evacuation of downtown Cheyenne. He still laughs his ass off at that.
Conex Xenon you could nuke a nuke and it still wouldn't blow up. It doesn't need that serious of a convoy. Also, if the people in the truck get out when theyre not supposed to or it drives off course for a certain period of time, the cars engine will blow up along with the axles, and in seconds, a concrete like material seals up the car to prevent anything from entering the vehicle.
Tanks, even an Abrams is too slow, and would damage the roadway, As for the Apache, it is illegal for US military aircraft to fly armed over the continental US unless we were under attack.
Still find fascinating that US military needs to move nukes around. French nukes are transported in pieces and assembled on site. Anyone who would want a nuke would need to highjack 6 heavily protected convoys to get all the parts, and still require the technical knowledge to assemble it. Once assembled, they never leave the base where they were assembled and are maintained on site.
There are books about “broken arrows” i.e. accidents around nuclear weapons. For sample, the US has at least twice dropped nuclear bombs on Canada (BC and Quebec). Fortunately the bombs haven’t exploded.
Plot twist they are actually on there way to surround a dead Kevin spacey and a emotional unstable brad pit after he looks in the box at the end of seven
I have a feeling the nuke is actually on a separate unmarked truck elsewhere. I could be wrong, but that's what my gut tells me. But perhaps that is what they want me to think :P
Don't they move the missiles and warheads separately, plus the warhead is shipped in pieces too? I once read a give away is the vehicles with weird antennas on them. I was a actually happy to see that at least this convoy had a helicopter over watch escort as well.
It is possible to steal it if you can convince some very high ranking people and those guards to make a "mistake" or if you have a very HIGHLY skilled team with several backup plans and procedures. It won't be easy but it can be done.
Not even a superpower spec-ops outfit could pull it off. They would need absolutely everything to go perfectly their way, and the entire point of layering security around the thing is to make this sort of situation impossible.
If any vehicle got between the convoy next to the semi they have authorization to use deadly force. If that happened and they didn’t use deadly force then they would be fired.
The crazy thing is there's no missile or bomb. That's just how securely the rare minerals to make the bomb are transported. Even if this was somehow hijacked, disregarding the fact that the entirety of any nearby military installation would be sweeping the entire area and then some, the hijackers would still only have access to a small amount of the resources needed to build a bomb. Not all the resources, and none of the firing mechanisms. Like i said though, that's if they can somehow evade the wrath of every f-16 stationed this half of the Mississippi.
Fun fact: If you bypass the armored escort and manage to slam into the side of the missile transport vehicle you get either pumped full of lead or sent to a black site never to see your family again!
Plot twist, the nuke is actually 2hrs ahead of or behind this convoy in the back of a wonderbread truck...
Ary M lol 😂
Lmao
you are right. a quarter mile back they have the real missile in a pepsi truck.
Mfw that would actually be a good idea
Ary M ha
"why are you late?"
"there was another missile convoy"
"oh ok"
"Land of the free"
keita, latviete?
"oh man, my commute was momentarily disrupted by a passing convoy, the US is definitely not a free country!!!" you're an idiot.
No Name Grasping at straws there Bud
hahahaha you put that in another vid
Next video: My first windshield cleaning
Nice job. Damn, convoy has air support and everything. Glad they're taking no chances. (Even in North Dakota.)
Usually the trucks are spaced out over miles and are very unassuming so as to not attract any attention, as the clearances regarding any knowledge of these convoys is very exclusive.
I guess this was a very important transport ... normally they use 2 vans in the near of a unmarked truck to get less attention.
stop discussing how sensitive material is transported
True. Although, how far would you be able to go if you even tried to steal one of these?
im sure anyone with the resources to take out a convoy has that knowledge already.
That's no convoy , that's MEGATRON
Jacob 👍😂😂 haha yes.
There's no stress on the driver at all.. He's ONLY carrying a nuke.. what's the big deal? haha
that pay check tho
it can't explode if not armed so its not a big task.
real doom yeah but you don't want to get in an accident that disables the vehicle or tips it. Then it would be a sitting duck for an attack.
Yeah and who is gonna attack it ? Russia, don't make me laugh.
oh you blinded idiot,russia doesnt care about you,they just want you to live them alone
Lester: you have to steal the nuke to rob the bank.
Me: ya hold up let me get my karuma
john broskey insurgent
kuruma*
Was this a heist?
Cringe
6 armored trucks with roof turrets, so figure a Quick Reaction Force of probably 40 or so bad-ass dudes armed to the teeth and supported with crew-served weapons. The Huey doesn't appear to be armed and so I suspect it is for spotting ambushes and chasing fleeing perpetrators.
Pretty substantial protection right there. But not insurmountable if some terrorist group had a lot of guys, a lot of bombs and shockingly good intel. The REAL security is installed on the truck, and I happen to know that IS insurmountable.
Pretty much every good anti-theft idea you can think of for that semi-truck, they've done. There's two drivers in the cab, who switch off every 6 hours or so and are remotely monitored for every second of the trip. If either driver dies in the cab, gets out of their seat when they aren't supposed to or deviates in any other way from the GPS-monitored course and itinerary, the engine self-destructs (so it can't be driven), the trailer axles all self-destruct (so the trailer can't be towed), the electronics package in the nuke self-destructs (so it can never be used again) and the whole trailer fills with polymer cement that's harder than rock and sets in just a few seconds (so the intruders can't steal the plutonium or any of the parts). Plus it sends a remote signal to the Quick Reaction Force F-16s (which ARE actually armed with rockets and guided bombs) which they keep on standby alert during convoys. Every single vehicle (plus the remote monitoring station) can activate that failsafe remotely, as well.
For the record, everything I just said was acquired from open source intelligence via books and the Internet.
This actually sounds really interesting. Are there any websites you can remember talking about this? I'd really love to link a few people to them. Tired of the people constantly going on about how dangerous this stuff is as if the entire world is going to blow up if they crash or criminals stop the convoy.
Alex Tocqueville wow damn if he wants to shift in his seat he could waste billions XD
Interesting, so if a driver misses a turn or has to take an alternative route due to road work or something then all these security measures activate?
Chris Ng I imagine they won't be making wrong turns. this shit is well planned
I was waiting for you to say ".. and then the nuke itself self destructs (that way everyone is dead and nobody can access plutonium"
Grand Theft Auto 6 heists look great!
Have a USAF bomb drop on you the second that you start to drive away with it!
SPINMASTAFLEX I loved your profile picture Lol.
SPINMASTAFLEX more of a supply run for your bunker
SPINMASTAFLEX I've done the convoy setup so many times that shit will be easy, all I need is an armored karuma
knew I would find a comment like this
Windex. It's not just for house windows.
lmao
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F4k3n4m31 bgy
In fact, you can't use Windex for car windscreen, you need ammonia-free products instead.
Run at the convoy yelling Allah Akbar, im sure that would be a viral hit
Starski10 That's a death sentence
They can't shoot it be racist.
Matt Lane yes they can 😂 get to close, and they won't even second guess fucking shooting you to death, you can't take chances while carrying a nuke
it will be da bom :p lol
Matt Lane It's a nuke you can be the most innocent person in the world but if you step food in that convoy they will shoot you without a thought they aren't risking a nuke over 1 person
Thats just amazon prime
Well my prime delivery men must be getting stopped by every anti nuclear weapon protesters in the universe by how many times it takes longer than 2 days for my shit to be delivered 😤
ded haha
That's that 12 hour shipping
Anton Npn EXACTLY
issa wii zapper no 5 hour shipping
who else is here from the other video(where the guy hits it) 😂
George Espinoza me lol 😂
Me...
TRS me 3
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Wth how
I can see the Fast and Furious crew being able to hijack one with a couple of Dodge chargers
SuperCuttysark Would be unsuccessful lol
Sorry we always have eyes in the sky, radar and plenty of Security Police armed to the teeth and under orders to shoot first, ask questions later!!!
Ahhh i remember my first nuclear missle convoy like it was yesterday......good times.....gooood times
that is not a nuclear missile.. an ICBM does not fit in the back of a semi.. could be just the warhead
That is the one that carries the warhead.
To carry an entire missile you need one of that huge russian 8-axis trucks
dallatorretdu, might want to double that number of axles, try 16
the Ruskies use the MZKT-79221 to carry their nukes, don't think the Yanks have any road mobile ICBMS
Zreknarf unfortunately, you are wrong. Nuclear missiles are transferred in that exact semi.
Oh i get it you are saying just the warhead
I can only imagine the endorsements that driver has on his license. I had to do an FBI back ground check with finger prints just for your common Hazmat license to haul fuel. Speaking of fuel, I'm amazed they let that tanker any where near that nuke.
With HAZMAT background checks, don't you get to go to the front of the TSA line at airports?
I'm blown away(pun intended) I didn't realize we did this
This event all by itself almost has an apocalyptic feel to it.
That's not a missile transporter, it's a guidance section/warhead transporter. They drive the trailer over the silo, then open the silo door. The flaps on the side of the trailer drop down to seal the opening for environmental purposes. A winch inside the trailer lowers the guidance section then the warhead section (up to 3 warheads) onto the missile. I used to be stationed there :-)
We got ourselves a convoy, trucking across the land, come on and join our conv- *BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*
I was part of this during an alternate base recovery excersize, no one was hurt, one man arrested for going past a deputy sheriff headed towards our convoy, we were aware of him and took precautions to prevent him from getting close to the road we were traveling. We were always under orders to shoot first, ask questions later!! We were the 92d Security Police Squadron at Fairchild AFB!
It's amazing the difference in the way the US does things, I live just down the road from Coulport where the majority of the UKs nuclear arsenal is, the convoys are usually as subtle as possible. 1 semi with a troop transport at the front and rear.
All the American videos show massive elaborate convoys.
Yanks like to show off.
I was stationed at Minot AFB and I was a Mark-19 gunner as part of the 791st Missile Security Forces squadron from 2002-2004.
I was at the 352 MSS at Whiteman AFB, Mo 89-90. We did not use MK-19s on convoys but I did go to MK-19 school at Lackland before I PCSd to RAF Lakenheath UK.
A Freedom Convoy
The Bzo When freedom = a weapon that could start a chain reaction of countries firing nukes which ends the world.
like I said, A FREEDOM CONVOY
The Bzo you're not that intelligent are you?
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That moment when people don't get a joke and take that shit serious
Generally, USAF transports nuclear warheads aerially. They don't transport the warhead (which is rather small) with the whole missile. The truck *could* be carrying a nuclear warhead, but is most likely not. Definitely something important, though.
Kenneth Carson The USAF doesn't transport anything. All fissile material is property of the Department of Energy, and they transport it.
Besides, the Air Force only deploys a small fraction of our nuclear arsenal. There's 450 warheads in 450 ICBMs, since they're not MIRVed, and maybe a hundred or so ground bombs.
The Navy on the other hand, deploys over 2,200 nuclear weapons. 14 SSBN subs, 20 active missile tubes per sub, and at least 8 MIRVed warheads per missile is over 2,200 warheads in the NAVYs control.
Dude they are all mirvs!
They are transported by ground in peacetime. Too dangerous to fly them.
appleintosh six missile bases, 200 sites each, yes, they MIRV, 3 each Minuteman...that’s 3,600 nukes. Then there’s the bombers...
Might want to go recheck your math or a little bit there are three bases each with 150 silos. One Missile field is in North Dakota another is in Montana and the third one is spread out in the Wyoming Colorado and Nebraska Corner area.
That's not a nuclear missile convoy. That's the Santa Blanca Cartel moving medical supplies. Someone hop out there and take that shit, it's worth 25,000 med points!!
Shitballs!
I have eyes on a small group of tangos
Walter Lenigar funny
Sometimes they send a decoy and only a small amount of people know which is the decoy. Its pretty cool
thats not a nuclear missile convoy, thats my Mobile Operations Center
Markushio mines white and red 😂
big mac horizon no, mobile command centers are different and don't require an armored vehicle transport
Respect for timing that last shot perfectly.
Somehow i was waiting for the Fast and Furious crew to snatch that truck. LOL
I used to live 10 miles south of Minot North Dakota and I remember those convoys passing by my house
If only I could do this on GTA without getting killed by a Jet in the sky
Or some random fucker with a Khanjali... Or an APC run... Or a bomber... Or a fucking Orbital Cannon...
They have those a lot in TN. I kinda miss them, but not sitting there, waiting in traffic.
This here is rubber duck....
nichols5536 this is rubber duck... Come back rubber chicken... Over..
I've seen a few of these and honestly- I think its more likely something else- like a movie. Ive seen a nuke transport- theyt dont draw attention to it usually
Wait this nuke cannot detonate right? Its not even armed,if I am correct even if the truck gets blown up it won't give an explosion.
It's probably just nuclear material. Not an actual bomb. So the only danger here is if the material gets blown up. No nuclear explosion would come from it only nuclear waste. It would be highly retarded to transport a nuclear bomb that actually has nuclear material loaded in it. Always separate the gun from the ammunition when loading, cleaning, or storing your firearms...
The Hammer And Tickle Aah I was confused since people in the comments are always telling that its an actually nuke but that would be stupid
If it were a warhead you could blow the thing up with 100 tons of c4 and it wouldn't explode.
wouldn't want to breathe in the dust though.
even if it is an actual nuclear weapon, crashing the truck or blowing it up wouldn't set it off. To work properly they need all the right stuff to be activated with microsecond precision. More to the point, they are designed to fail safely in case of an accident.
I'm fairly sure the warhead is inside a tough case inside the trailer, so even if you blew up the trailer it wouldn't do much to the warhead
I remember driving the truck in my first convoy.
What if a Tornado suddenly appeared and lifted that nuke out of its cargo and it was somehow armed. And armed nuke would be spinning 200 miles an hour, with random elevations, and in circles, heading towards Washington? WHAT THE FUCK WOULD THEY DO??
It sounds like the premise for a bad action movie. i bet Nicholas Cage would be protagonist.
more like steven segal
1. Its not a nuclear bomb, it has no detonator.
2. Even if it did have the detonator it wouldn't be easy to set it off
3. They would probably look at the weather.
4. That truck is far too heavy for a tornado to lift up.
Born in the wrong Reich I wouldn't doubt that, there's actually real pictures caught of a tornado lifting several semi trailers and throwing them around like there toy trucks.
BudokaiMan 1200 most semi trailers are a box frame and thin aluminium sheet, this is more than likely armour plated and probably weighs 10 ton.
My dad used to do top secret nuclear convoys in the marines. He once stayed awake for 46 hours straight guarding a missile. Tough. Job. Nothing more stressful.
Maybe he guarded static missiles at an airbase, but sorry to burst your bubble,all shit like this is transported by the DOE and the guys in the humvees are likely DOE commandos or delta force operators doing inter federal agency service.
Serendipity 242 afraid not, I'm not 100% sure on much, but I know he was on the move, maybe not for the whole trip however. This wasn't recent by the way
Who Else thinks of the heist set up in gta where you hijack a convoy
Slav SquatComrade Me ; )
Yes, there is a warhead in that semi trailer. You want excitement, try physically interfereing with that convey, the and will not be pleasant. My first duty assignment was Minot AFB, ND in the missile maintainence squadron responsible for maintaining those missiles.
I was part of the 92d Security Police Squadron, we had the weapons for the B-52's and were under orders to shoot first, ask questions later!!! I'd say that is not pleasant!
Worst children's book ever.
F-N Bad ass to the max. That's how Chuck Norris is transported.
I can't wait to get my Nuke cherry broken.
a nuclear warhead passed by my house in sacramento by train. it took like 8 hours to go from San Francisco to Reno NV with it. It traveled so slow.
its like some gta 5 online shit
For Trevor Philips industries!
I was thinking about the gun running DLC, but that works too
The biggest surprise I noticed was that the truck was a cabover, damn they love the classics.
In soviet russia you dont transport nuclear missile
Nuclear missile transport you
Way back in time I led a convoy from Amarillo to Nevada. What was funny was the transporter had a bumper sign ‘My lights are on for safety ‘
that's some scary shit.
This is just like something from the start of an alien movie. The helicopter coming out of a cloud of dust followed by a few 50bmg roof mounted trucks and a transformer in the middle of it all. . Sick.
So baddass. Go america
dumb country
I saw some years ago too an nuclear missile convoy in germany, i must say it was crazy how big the truck was, and there was almost no police!
i dont know if you should have uploaded this,
the cia will get you, you are following nukes around lol
Why? There's so many videos of this online, and it's in public space. It's not like you're recording from inside the truck lol
Dopamine Serotonin I've been inside those trucks before, both the ones that carries the missile and the one that carries the warhead, so probably not classified.
Fecking Sweg Cool story bro
Fecking Sweg no you haven’t because these trucks aren’t even carrying missiles 😂😂
True story, my dad back in the 60’s installed many of the minuteman missiles in ND and Cheyenne. He was driving the truck with the missile on it and his truck over heated and caught fire in downtown Cheyenne. Immediately causing an evacuation of downtown Cheyenne. He still laughs his ass off at that.
This is a movie scene lol
What movie?
kevin AR15 no
Actually no it isn't kevin ... it's real life and a common occurrence around missile bases.
Plot twist: The truck behind him was actually carrying the bomb.
plot twist: it was actually in a pepsi truck 2 hours earlier.
Plot twist: They're actually late with my pizza
They should have an apache and a tank follow the truck. its a nuke afterall
Conex Xenon you could nuke a nuke and it still wouldn't blow up. It doesn't need that serious of a convoy. Also, if the people in the truck get out when theyre not supposed to or it drives off course for a certain period of time, the cars engine will blow up along with the axles, and in seconds, a concrete like material seals up the car to prevent anything from entering the vehicle.
Plus an Abrams would probably do a lot of damage to normal roads
Tanks, even an Abrams is too slow, and would damage the roadway, As for the Apache, it is illegal for US military aircraft to fly armed over the continental US unless we were under attack.
no, they fly live fire missions in nevada all the time
It’s not a Nuke
Still find fascinating that US military needs to move nukes around. French nukes are transported in pieces and assembled on site. Anyone who would want a nuke would need to highjack 6 heavily protected convoys to get all the parts, and still require the technical knowledge to assemble it. Once assembled, they never leave the base where they were assembled and are maintained on site.
If this was a real nuke convoy civilians would not have been allowed this close to it. This was a distraction/decoy the real convoy was elsewhere.
SPOOKY XRAY that or it wasn't carrying the warhead.
SPOOKY XRAY It is 100% a real convoy carrying a warhead.
Thats why they had partial traffic control on some lanes
I don't think you understand that this happens a lot, they transfer missles,nukes, parts, etc all the time
Its dismantled for safety reasons
the beginning of the video looks like the beginning of a zombie movie and a good one too
Preparing for WWIII with Russia
So they got a Valkyrie, mobile operations centre and a couple of insurgents.
1 damm bullet and whole North Dakota is gone
False, (semi) modern nukes are impossible to detonate unless you're the guy that is intended to make it go boom.
RicePixles i meant to reply to the one bullet comment.
nope. you could literally nuke that nuke and the nuke you just nuked still wouldn't detonate.
There are books about “broken arrows” i.e. accidents around nuclear weapons. For sample, the US has at least twice dropped nuclear bombs on Canada (BC and Quebec). Fortunately the bombs haven’t exploded.
Thought they were pulling into K-Mart for a second...
They are stopping your freedom of movement, I would have passed on the shoulder.
TheDutyPaid lolo
TheDutyPaid Your car would be turned into swiss cheese by the mounted .50 Cal machine guns
My car is painted with an American flag over it. They would never fire on the old Red, White and Blue.
You would've been shot by G.I. Joe!!!
TheDutyPaid and get arrested?
Plot twist they are actually on there way to surround a dead Kevin spacey and a emotional unstable brad pit after he looks in the box at the end of seven
That tow truck was blocking traffic LOL
I'm guessing Minuteman III on its way to Vandenberg for a test. Growing up near Vandenberg has made those tests literal background noise for me.
When they do that they actually send out more than one convoy but only one convoy carriers the "package".
I have a feeling the nuke is actually on a separate unmarked truck elsewhere. I could be wrong, but that's what my gut tells me. But perhaps that is what they want me to think :P
Im listening to Convoy while watching this
Seen a few of those, one of the SWD wells I work at is 1.2 miles as the crow flies from a Minuteman III missile silo.
Just another day in North Dakota. Also, if a warhead is inside the truck, it looks a bit lightly defensed.
Thankfully I have never seen a nuclear convoy nor would I want to.just the thought of there destructive power frightens me.
I got to see I few of these convoys when I worked in North Dakota, pretty interesting stuff if you've never seen it. 🇺🇸
If North Dakota got blown off the map accidentally, half of the country wouldn't even notice. It is basically our Siberia for the contiguous 48.
i feel like I'm on a watch list now for watching this
Lester needs that convoy stopped before Clifford can launch it.
Don't they move the missiles and warheads separately, plus the warhead is shipped in pieces too?
I once read a give away is the vehicles with weird antennas on them. I was a actually happy to see that at least this convoy had a helicopter over watch escort as well.
Yes. The missile itself is transported in a T&E(transporter and erector). That trailer is much longer than the standard 44'.
I bet that driver of the truck hauling the weapon has his/her background extensively checked for top security clearance and paid top dollar
MrTech226 Or, it's probably just a hired mercenary
I noticed no state police or any other local law enforcement escorting the convoy.
"A nuclear missile convoy appears"
*boss music starts playing*
Plot twist the real nuke is in another civilian truck and the convoy is only a decoy
congrats on popping your nuclear missile convoy cherry
That looks like a nuke convoy all right. Nice catch.
It is possible to steal it if you can convince some very high ranking people and those guards to make a "mistake" or if you have a very HIGHLY skilled team with several backup plans and procedures. It won't be easy but it can be done.
Not even a superpower spec-ops outfit could pull it off. They would need absolutely everything to go perfectly their way, and the entire point of layering security around the thing is to make this sort of situation impossible.
the semi driver is driving with one hand but smoking and taking selfies for his old lady and his kids with the other hand.
If any vehicle got between the convoy next to the semi they have authorization to use deadly force. If that happened and they didn’t use deadly force then they would be fired.
Missiles are bigger than what is in that trailer. Might want to think what else it could be.
actually wonder why they don't have a backup truck following if the main truck breaks.
Hey, this guys got a Valkyrie, at least we don't have a tryhard in the session.
The crazy thing is there's no missile or bomb. That's just how securely the rare minerals to make the bomb are transported. Even if this was somehow hijacked, disregarding the fact that the entirety of any nearby military installation would be sweeping the entire area and then some, the hijackers would still only have access to a small amount of the resources needed to build a bomb. Not all the resources, and none of the firing mechanisms.
Like i said though, that's if they can somehow evade the wrath of every f-16 stationed this half of the Mississippi.
"I better get paid for this or I will blow this mother fucker up" -nuclear missile driver
yes the item inside the trailer of the semi truck is an LGM-30 minuteman 3 missile and it's possibly armed which explains the heavy security
The trailer is too small for the entire missile, and the warheads are Never armed during transport, I served in the Air Force with them, the weapons!!
@@GM8101PHX well of course they wouldn't. The weapons themselves should be transported by aircraft either via helicopter or military cargo jet
Just RV and warhead. The missile is transported separately
I have twice the respect for this decoy nuclear missile convoy than I have had for any U.S. president in my lifetime.
Its American greatness being moved from the storage to be used again.
Fun fact: If you bypass the armored escort and manage to slam into the side of the missile transport vehicle you get either pumped full of lead or sent to a black site never to see your family again!