The Most Destructive Weapon the US Can Sneak into Any Country
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2024
- The scenario was clear: as the Cold War turns hot, a field of warfare, eerily quiet yet tense, stretches before a small team of American soldiers.
Under a heavy sky, they hastily set up a newly developed weapon, their movements precise yet urgent. The recoilles rifle system, named the Davy Crockett, is aimed at a distant target: a Soviet tank.
Once the weapon is set, the team pulls the firing chord and runs at full speed.
As they sprint away, the air is thick with the unspoken truth: the Davy Crockett is more than just a rifle; it is the world's smallest nuclear weapon.
A powerful tool in their arsenal, with the Davy, nuclear abilities were now at the fingertips of even the smallest military units.
Today, the use of nuclear weapons is understood only as a last resort. Yet, back in the 1950s, amidst a frosty atmosphere of global tension, the rules were different, and the Davy Crockett epitomized a readiness to cross the boundaries of the unthinkable. - Věda a technologie
I don't think the new troops would think
crewing the weapon would be a wise career choice.
Omitted the most symbolic bullet point of the life of Davy Crockett. He died at Battle of the Alamo. So, naming the weapon was poetic.
Absolutely and a bit suicidal but hey war is not for pussies.
You satanists have wierd heros
Also maybe well suited for a new Disney World ride, if maybe Mouse Co. & Ronny D put together some kind of Cartoon Golf in the Keys Treaty Organizaion...
yeah you're not meant to survive having to deploy this it's to stop tanks coming at you over open territory with nothing to stop them
The Davy Crockett had a fatal flaw, it lacked to range to get the nuke far enough away to avoid the fallout. So, it, like all nukes, are weapons of mutually assured destruction.
You can put some wings on it ,to glide it target
Was called the SADM, special atomic demolition munition. Man portable, sorta. Hot, so don't spend a lot of time holding it.
it's the Davy Crockett no got time for all that
The SADM were more like nuclear land mines, designed to be emplaced on critical structures such as bridges or tunnels, to be detonated if overrun by enemy advances, to channel them into killing zones. Davy Crockett was to be lobbed towards the enemy. I think it was the same basic warhead as used in the USAF AIM-2 Genie (also test fired once) or the 155mm artillery round.
I had a high school buddy that jiuned the US Army and was deployed to Germany serving on a 155 self propell arty unit. I believe he was in the Fulda Gap area. He told me they were equipped with nuke shells to be fired if the Soviet armor overran the Gap. Each week one guy was picked to fire the shell while everyone retreated. The high probability of the powder charge, big enough to send the shell down range could result in zero survival. If survival was achieved the dumb-a$$ was tasked with destroying any ammo/equipment. Suffice to say that he had a boring deployment and no stories.
There was the story about guys manning a listening post along the frontier that smoked to much Afghany hash one day and put a toilet seat wrapped in aluminum foil on the roof of their bunker. East German helicopters kept flying by taking photos.
But boy did they eat well! Nobody knew who had the shell, or whether it was self-propelled, or just a standard towed 155. It just bumped along the back trails with a security contingent.
Your buddy had too much hash
@@misterbig9025 Yes, he did.
3:00 That looks remarkably like the Overdrive Unit used on some British cars in the 60’s and 70’s 8^)
I came here to say hold the fuck up i see planetary gearsets and friction bands lmao. Thats a damn automatic transmission.
@@CatDad01 yeah - the overdrive units used a diff set and band clutch
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We do have the "Specials" suit case nukes that, while not as potent, are a ninja nuke to be escorted to the target and set and forget.
Sadly, this is the closest we came to the M42 Fatman from Fallout...
M42 fat man i believe
Thanks
Fortunately you mean
You really missed the entire message and point of the fallout series.
... I wonder how many of these toys made it into private collections ... ?
Here is a very scary thought mount this system to an M50 "Ontos" [the Marine Corps just called it the Thing] For a 6 barreld firing platform
They Should have used it before the Soviets poisoned our bodily fluids……hopefully someone notices that reference 😂
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Yes, *Lovely Fluorides!*
Or trump
I'd read about it before but this is the first time I've seen films of it in action obviously they ought to have devoted more research and thought to the project before fielding it but having lived through it I know the pressures of the cold war were intense⚛😀
Davy Crocket died at the Alamo. I wonder if this was to call to mind the idea that those who fired this weapon would die in the action.
I remember Colonel Volgin using it in Tselinoyarsk
It's all gravey when you've got Davey 😊
Well, it's not a secret if you're posting about it.
Wonder if the delivery system could be used for another type of munitions. Placing a hyperbaric payload in it might be useful in clearing the area ahead of the troops.
It was pretty damn awesome seeing this weapon used in metal gear solid 3.
Columbus, Georgia USA has a "National Infantry Museum" that has one of these on display. Highly Recommended to visit.
The Americans are so brave and always afraid it's hilarious
@@SalvadorSanchez-hq9hn you're from where? El Salvadore? yeah you got not no wins in history, try again.
What some people who had Davy Crocketts told me they planned to do was hook up electronic firing solenoids from an M73 tank coax gun and attach a half mile of phone line so they could remote fire the Davy Crocketts..
The Davey Crockett system was retired.
I don't want to set the world on fire
I just want to start
A flame in your heart
In my heart, I have but one desire
And that one is you
No other will do
I've lost all ambition
For worldly acclaim
I just want to be the one you love
And with your admission
That you feel the same
I'll have reached the goal I'm dreaming of
Believe me
i know you've read it in that voice 🤣
There is one of these in the National Infantry Museum at Ft Moore GA (formally Ft Benning).
haha as I scrolled down I saw that you said the same thing I said, it's not on base though.
@@numatic1485 Not anymore. you are correct. But when I was a kid it was. In an old ass white building. Now it's in the same building as the IMAX theatre. Good on you for knowing.
@@rickpilhorn man I did so much work on Ft Benning.. we wired up the pop up targets for the tank ranges, went the the Burger King right outside the drop towers... hell I even went to "The Drop Zone" used to be a restaurant. we worked right underneath it near the armory. I got story's man.
@@numatic1485 I know that BK well. And those towers from Airborne school too. I remember the Drop Zone but never went.
@@rickpilhorn man you are a legend! stay safe brother!
I had an uncle that served in West Germany in the early 60's. He crewed one of the M65 atomic cannon, Atomic Annie.
He died young of cancer.
What about the nuclear hand grenade?!
That is the Terminator's power pack. Cyberdyne does not allow that!
Starship Troopers? Don’t think they have the export license for that device yet.
Dear God.
Extreme fragging of the A-hole LT.
Impossible to get good data on effectiveness... makes a hole 40 feet across and most testers can only throw it twenty feet...
Lol is this serious?
Davy Crockett love that thing
To force an end to the Korean War, Ike let it be known that our new nuclear artillery shells and canon were in service and headed to Japan. He warned the Communists that peace would come by summer, one way or another. The REDS realized that there mass attacks and fortified hills would be obliterated one at a time. And there was nothing they could do. The ceasefire was signed in June 53.
These were NOT the smallest deployed atomic weapons... the XM129 and XM159 SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition) and was carried by a Special Combat Engineer, MOS 12E. It was freak'n manportable and deployed by a man.
That would have been nothing but insanity and cruel
I wouldn’t want to be the soldier using it in battle for the 1st time. Heroes are not always what we read about in the newspaper.
"The Most Destructive Weapon the US Can Sneak into Any Country" - that would be a B-2 with a bellyfull of B83 bombs.
The USSR knew very well they would get leveled if they dropped a nuclear bomb on the US or Allied countries (NATO).
The US made the mistake of thinking the USSR had more weapons and manpower than they actually had.
Fun fact: The US helped the USSR with safety systems to make their bombs more secure. Neither side was interested in an all-out nuclear war because of an accidental launch.
After a near incident in the Cuba crisis of 1961a "hotline" was established so both parties could talk with each other BEFORE any incident or after an accidental launch.
The David Crockett system was not a viable option as it didn't reach the safe distance where friendly groups were not exposed to fallout.
If you don't develop it your enemies will
Imagine having a misfire with that thing, or have the round only travel a few feet before hitting the ground... 💀 Would be pretty bad!
Shoulder-firing a nuke would be pretty badass however! 😁
since the blast radius was bigger than the throw distance of the launch charge, this was not a really popular weapon system with the troops
"My rifle shoots 50 mm rounds."
"My rifle shoots nukes."
Something about sneaking into another country....yet doesn't mention anything about a stealth aircraft carrying nukes..... just a single nuke on a small rocket
At the time of the Davy Crockett's development, stealth aircraft were still a thing of the future.
@@jmichna1 coughs SR-71 was being developed and it's technically first generation stealth....plus the associated drones and A-10 precursor aircraft
@@roberthurley8366 Davy Crockett development started in '57 and was operational and deployed in '61. Lockheed's A10 never saw service; its descendant the A12 first flew in April '62 and wasn't even delivered to the USAF/CIA until starting in '63. SR71 came after the A12. Neither the A12 or the SR71 was equipped to carry munitions. "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed" by Ben Rich covers all the Lockheed development work, including their work on stealth technology. Cough, cough.
Note that this was the smallest nuke back in the 1950s….
Most advanced nuclear states had/have these mini nukes, the Soviets/Russians had/have so called suitcase nukes they could smuggle into an enemy country, the Russian military after the fall of the Soviet Union informed us several of these "suitcase" nukes had gone missing. The current Russian military developed what they call Club K's, four missiles on a launcher inside what looks like just a standard shipping container but lead lined so nuclear "sniffer" systems cannot detect them, these "shipping" containers can be smuggled into any enemy countries port then theoretically shipped all over right up to within easy striking distance of any enemy target and remotely launched.
What ever happened to those “missing” backpack nukes ?
Yes
War is ugly
I guess being sneaked in makes it an unclear weapon.
8:10 That's either wrong or insane!
Surely they weren't watching a nuke go off from 852m away wearing nothing more than goggles and a shirt!
They brushed up on their duck and cover lessons. Instead of squirming under a desk they squirmed under the bleachers they were sitting on.
The voiceover on these videos is great. I think it’s a human 😊
it's a bloody mortar that shoots little atom bombs
What many current people didn't realize, back in the late 1950's to late 1970's, the Russian military outnumbered us 100 to 1 or more and could have steamed rolled over us serving in Europe at the time, since the Russians knew it would take 72 hours or more for reinforcements to arrive from stateside. Our unit was to destroy Fulda Gap bridge to slow them down until our reinforcements could arrive. Those were scary times.
Well given the B2 and B21, we can sneak quite a lot more destructive weapons into any country.
What could possibly go wrong?
.... I'm sorry was that a schematic for a automatic transmission lol
I believe I saw this in the fallout game.
Actually, the Davy Crockett was disassembled decades ago.
If that thing malfunfunctioned, your fucked !
The United States military will never need to sneak in to deploy a nuclear weapon. 😊
YEAH know how thinking changed? Pres Regan and Gorbachev watched the ABC Monday Night Movie "The Day After" in 1983 i watched it as a 11 yr old 4yrs into getting into politics as a interest. IT SCARED EVERYONE not like "War of the Worlds" back in the day but it shook up everyone.
Well, yes, the Davy Crockett, very much the nuclear hand grenade. The scenario, a Jeep with a recoilless rifle, 3 or 4 warheads, a sergeant and a driver careening around Europe, positive control on weapon release? I don’t think so. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
I think the 155mm nuclear artillery granat is more interesting. I am not sure it still exist but did in three 1980.
I think they may have used one in the final scene in Return of the Living Dead.
That's from the 50s.... What about the nuclear BB?
I would believe it would be antimatter with a contained magnetic field. I believe that would take out New York City and they could use on today!
Like a nuclear "hell canon" syria Civil war
"Let's run from an atomic blast".
Worked for Indiana Jones.
@@poodlescone9700 Cameraman was close.
West Germany wanted some a few short years after WW II. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
That doesn't look safe.......
Wow the nuclear hand grenade -- lethality range 5000kilometers throwing range 35 meters...
Back to the drawing board.
I think any soldier assigned to use this cannon would have loved for the creators of the gun have to be with them if/when they ever had to use it. I'm glad the weapon never had to be used. Shalom
Did those guys have any "special" insurance policies set up by the Army?.
Davy crokett
versus backpack nukes or poseidon nuclear torpedo that can create a mega tsunami.......
Yes, *the Holy Fallout.* (one of the “planet of the apes” movies)
That's implying they could still use it
True.
@@tmseh false flag Ukraine
We learn nothing from our past
And always lofty plans for the future.
I own one of these
How could you reach minimum safe distance once it was fired?
flying was the preferred method, but seeing as they didn't have planes they probably just ran
You don’t 😂
Davy Rocket
yay, misleading click bait title 🤨
Riddle me just HOW the US can sneak this into any battlefield? It is a footnote in history, yet somehow they are ready to be snuck into battle 6 decades later? Sure if this was on the Soviet's side. They can mount them to their T-55 tanks they are now having to use, but the USA isn't relying on 60 year old technology like Pooty-poot has to.
Now we're talking "home defense" 😄 get off my lawn
Still a concern?
They WANT it to happen
Kim Wrong Un is just itchin' to "try" one out.
Mental...
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not Good enough
Nuke mines!?
Yet another waste of resources .
I'm surprised Ukaine hasn't been given these concidering the use of first world war trenchs.
This is what Hillary was selling at Bengazzi, one was used in Beruit port bombing
As soon as any adversary uses any nuclear weapon, however small, the use of them becomes "allowed" or even obligatory. Cool weapon, developed by people who have an uncanny ability to never think things through to a logical conclusion. Probably the manufacturers of said weapon, who undoubtedly suffered from billions in cost overruns etc.
You Probably are Just to Young To Remember these didn't Work due to the wind can Change Direction an Wipe out your Whole Forse ... Eh Americans 😂
All nuclear weapons are portable. If they were not, how would you use them against your enemies?
I guess he means able to be moved by men or a vehicle and not a plane
Whatever happened to the slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships”? Thanks for pointing this out to our potential enemies.
Hopefully this “weapon” has been consigned to the scrap heap. But, in cynical appreciation of the military mind, you just know the military have them stashed in an Armoury somewhere. Additionally, the CIA will have a few stashed offshore as well.
the most destructive weapon is wokeness.
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what a stupid idea 🤣
Don't waste your time. "Nuclear Artillery".....
What about my x wife?
You wouldn't wudja. Your'e EVIL. 😊
Guys with engineering or physics know how ... just high school level can tell this thing doesn't make sense ... 🤪🤪🤪
So in short, the USA fits not believe in the sovereignty of other nations. Well, that completely undermines our reason for being in Ukraine.
11:50 ...Is that photo faked? If so, why? Misrepresentation is disgusting. Stick to the fact, Jack... or I seek entertainment elsewhere...
Yeah , I have never seen this anywhere else , I believe it's faked by someone with a agenda
... give him a thumbs down for this one
More lies
I have seen seals with portable underwater nuclear mines, so they could use them out of the water as well?🦘🦘👌👌✌✌👍👍