B61-12 full-weapon system demonstration at Tonopah Test Range 

ACME provided me with a very satisfactory nuclear demolition charge to help excavate the foundation for my new house .👍 USAF veteran 3p0x1 ( keeping the big booms out of the bad guys hands)

@Nicolae Ceaușescu SO

Tru that, they dont ever need to test their ploom machines, and they work every single time.

They have great explosions to.

Hahahahaha

Ikr

I was about to myself. Drives me up the wall, along with mis-chee-vee-us(wrong) vs miss-chiv-us(correct)

@Kevin H: if ”nucular" was good enough for President Jimmy Carter (a Navy nuclear submarine officer) then it's good enough for me. I also worked 20 yrs at a Naval Shipyard that did nuclear overhauls & refuelings -- heard lots of mis-pronounciations there as well. Also from my wife's brother, another nuclear submariner.

@@GraemePayne1967Marine LOL it may never go away.

Pick your battles... I stopped caring about pronunciation

What game?

@@oif3gunner Do you really want me to say? In a little weak game, it only weighs around 50MB, and it's smartphones to get worse😂

@@ezequiasluiz412 I'm curious what game has nuclear weapons

@@oif3gunner Ace Combat 7

@@Ciumpalacu thanks

For real… c’mon dude. 😑

bruh

"nu-que-ler"

I was about to comment on that, too. I didnt know the USN connection, but I cringed slightly every time he said it.

Google uss liberty

@@gehstur7150 dawg it was a research vessel

@@gehstur7150 what does that have to do with it?

So what is the point of the F-35? Stealth?

@@mr.x4036 it is made for a total different mission than the F-15. It was made to destroy radar sites in areas where you don't have air superiority. The F-16 Viper has had that job with it's HARM missiles. The F-35 was not made to fill the role that the F-15 did.

@@taiming71 very well

@@mr.x4036 the F-35s work in tandem with F-15’s I don’t know everything but here’s a scenario, the stealth F-35s go in and take out the enemy’s air defenses, let’s say for example some Russian S-400 missile systems, and their radar stations. Now the enemy’s air defenses are clear for something like the F-15 aka pretty much a missile/ammunition truck, to come in and do it’s thing.

@@BasedHadrian interesting. Thanks for the info!! :)

Yeah, they were testing if it explodes in unwanted condition.

yep failed, so why say nuclear weapons testing and also dropped by plane as well, those days are long gone ,so again getting money from the US government to develop and then test systems which they are never ever going to use, even main nation has systems to shoot down and air born missile from the ground or from the sea or maybe even while its in space or just outside the that last section, whereby gravity is not effected? Honeywell and others are making billions of dollars or profit each year for weapons which are never used especially long /mid range missiles, they test them so that the companies will keep making them, like MOAB bomb and bunker busing bombs?

You can’t test nukes anymore. The last test was in 1993 iirc.

@@7071t6 missile intercepting an icbm has a success rate of like 10%. Developing these weapons are not “stealing money from the government”

Im pretty sure the Chinesse already hack the servers and got all the data.

Ukraine is the only country in the world that has voluntarily lost its own nuclear arsenal. In my opinion, this was a strategic mistake. In 2014, the armed aggression of one of the guarantors of Ukraine's security, Russia, began. It is now very difficult for us to contain the enemy, the United States is our only reliable strategic partner. The people of Ukraine deserve our country's membership in NATO. In the meantime, everyone should know that our best children die every day in the Ukrainian-Russian war.

@Don Neon Продали с потрохами трубы и прочие производства расие, теперь что ни день, то срачи на высшем уровне. Он вас и без войны голыми руками приберет под себя это только вопрос времени.

@Don Neon факт тот что у нас производство есть. и не зря пастор напрягал московитов. можем грязную запустить

@Don Neon А ничего что "своих" запасов ЯО не было ни у России, ни у Украины, Белоруссии, Казахстана ??? ЯО было у одной единой на тот момент страны - СССР, и "красная кнопка" (управление) находилась в Генштабе, в Москве. При всем желании ни одна из республик входивших в состав союза НЕ МОГЛА не только произвести запуск, но даже просто перенацелить ракеты, они просто там дислоцировались. Таким образом тот арсенал который остался у республик не мог ими управляться при любом раскладе - только в лом)))), но при этом нацеленность арсеналов и управляемость осталась у Москвы, которая при определенных обстоятельствах могла его запустить и сказать мы ни при чем - само стартонуло с незалежных стран с ними и воюйте. ПОЭТОМУ ликвидация запасов ЯО была только в интересах США, для собственной же безопасности, что и было сделано ))))

@@olegvoloshkov Дешевая отмазка. Со временем бы создали свои пульты управления. Не обязательно было с высунутым языком бегом бежать избавляться от ракет.

Слава Україні! Пишаємося нашими героями!!!

False. South Africa.

@@daveleau Yes! That's entirely correct. They're the only nation who devised their own weapons and then gave them up entirely. The Israelis helped a lot -- they needed somewhere to test their own bomb program, as well as access to certain metals, and SA had both.

There was no way for Ukraine to use those weapons except by recycling their components and rebuilding them. While the devices and launchers were kept in the former territories, the Russians kept all of the absolutely necessary arming and firing mechanisms to themselves. Under no circumstances could Ukraine simply have used them. They're not simply keys or encryption codes, although those form a major part. The key itself is an offset value. The exact geometry of the primaries in each bomb are uniquely and slightly altered, with a small quantity of high explosive removed. The key contains the offset value which adjusts the electronic firing components to compensate for this removal. Without that value, firing the bomb produces a fizzle, if anything. Ukraine would have had to dismantle all the nuclear weapons and make their own using the materials. That would certainly help a newly fledged bomb program, but no more than that. They're not just rifles or tanks you can walk up to and take control over. Even the Russians treated their weapons of mass destruction carefully.

Prescient comment, in the terms of this week… However, the infrastructure needed to mantain the weapons was beyond Ukraine, so it was a good deal to negotiate them away instead of them just withering away…

Yeah but how will you drop this gravity nuke bomb to areas that are heavily defended by anti aircraft missiles that can detect and hit targets 200 miles away?

@@PurpleHaze4meand hypersonics in nations with thriving insurers (plural).

sure

bro thats literally switching from visible light to infrared so you can distinguish the bomb better

Antares B-2,B-21,F-35s

This particular munition is a bunker and hardened target killer. The aircraft in the video shares similar mounting and deployment characteristics with a great many allied aircraft. Having the capability to drop precision nuclear weapons using any kind of aircraft you like is a very good thing, as it allows you maximum flexibility and capability in the mission. Preparing for the end of the world in a convincing fashion is a vital part of ensuring it never happens.

As for the purpose of air dropped tactical nuclear weapons, they're more generally for flexible counterforce strikes. They are for attacking enemy forces in forward areas. With aerial refueling, they can also be used for attacking rear areas, radar installations, airbases, military basing more generally, etc. This would be part of a broader scale offensive -- aircraft in the SEAD role with conventional weapons would necessarily take part. Having available small and accurate nukes you can deploy without special delivery systems is very important for any conception one might have of nuclear war fighting that doesn't immediately procede to a complete exchange. Escalate to de-escalate strategies in use by Russia make this even clearer. American and allied forces have largely dismantled the tactical capacity over the last decades and not having that might well mean a small war that doesn't escalate to the Last War isn't possible. It isn't binary, after all. That's a trap we mustn't fall into.

@@noecarrier5035 who are you

test are done with inert payloads, the controls are still there without the boom

It's the guidance and durability components that turned a previously unguided gravity bomb into a highly precise gravity bomb with a case durable enough to survive impact. The precision thing is what has been the most important. The closer you get your device to the target, the lower yield it can be and still achieve powerful target effects. Detonating a 10kt device next to a target underground is like detonating a 1Mt device above it or on the surface 1000m away.

Thats how they keep their job. And US and A government says: you need more money, no problem, national security.

You would be surprised how difficult it is to get a dumb bomb to get it's nuclear cert.

@@anthonysaponaro6318 I am surprised. It seems like a nice little job creation scheme to be honest since this is already a nuclear bomb and therefore presumably already certified. If I was a US taxpayer I’d be a bit upset to be honest.

The nuclear materials are removed. A radio device, called a "pip" is installed to mimic the "functioning" of the explosive trigger. Other than that it is a live weapon.

No, inert warhead. No point in putting a live warhead into the test when you're not planning to detonate it anyway. You'd get just get radioactive materials dispersed over the test range.

It’s a laser guided bomb

@@offdeck8588 joke or nah?

@@fireblazen1486 ya it’s a laser guided nuclear bomb

It was a test for the guidance system of the bomb

@Atlas Dankworth agreed

With that pathetic film of the impact, did it actually hit the target? Not that, with nuclear weapons, it's all *that* critical.

thats so wrong in so many ways

yup, sometimes people gotta die. you had a realization

🤣 Type of bomb...f-15 wasn't previously certified to carry this type of thermonuclear gravity bomb

Yes, Brian. It is just you.

I always assumed that weapons like this would be lobbed in from an aircraft in a climb to put it on a ballistic arc into to the target to increase the time for the aircraft to depart the area vs flying over the target like a WW2 B17 or dropped into the target in a dive like conventional precision bombing. Absolute precision is not needed when dealing with nuclear weapons vs 500lb/1000lb or 2000lb bombs anyways.

what the heck they are doing so much more

Yes. They can be delivered by “lob”

About 25% of the Presidents - you know, they guys with the button - could not pronounce it correctly!

....and no brit can pronounce Laboratory, Aluminum, or Methane correctly.. heck they think Z (zee) is (zed)... and they drive on the Wrong side of the road... LOL...

@@9pointnine116 What's really interesting about the pronunciation of aluminum, is the Brits accuse us of mispronouncing it when it was they who originally called it aluminum and not aluminium. Sir Humphrey Davy named it aluminum when he discovered it, but it was his secretary who reviewed his articles for publication that decided to rename it. Like soccer, which the Brits originally called it, and now complain that Americans use that bad name to describe their "football."

putler kaput!

NATO is not able to stop rallies you guys are far from war

try to stop Taliban first

Наши подводные лодки у ваших берегов находятся постоянно. Вы их не можете засечь.

No kidding, eh? Kind of like your nuclear reactors. Chernoble was 40 years ahead of us, too.

Nukyular

Everything on here is declassified

It’s declassified, man.

I actually have one of these (inert, of course) sitting on a carriage right outside my office. I give it a little pat as I walk by to do my work. Sandia is a really cool place to work.

The Mod 12 isn't exactly a freefall bomb, it's more along the lines of a thermonuclear earth-penetrating JDAM.

@@kumat0ra672 ic. Is it guided? Seems weird if not

@@MrGoatflakes Yup, uses INS/GPS guidance. Its accuracy of thirty meters is definitely within the size of the crater it'd form from detonating under the ground.

All of those things you mentioned are still very much so being used.

@@literalantifaterrorist4673 I meant their nuclear versions. And if they are, they aren't appearing in any inventories or on any you know, actual ships or aeroplanes... But someone already pointed out the unique use case of this particular nuclear weapon, and it's a ground penetrating nuclear tipped bunker buster, basically.

whats with the bible quote

Even Jesus flipped over tables. There's a time for peace and a time for action (war).

Why shame? our weapons here in the USA are really built as a deterrent to nuclear war . . . . but also ready ever the need arise , how does one respond after being attacked with a nuclear weapon after all ?

Give up?

A necessary weapon. I would argue that these nightmarish weapons are crucial to preventing all out war by forcing different "tribes" to "battle it out" using less destructive means. But there is always that "what if" scenario... Just hope reason, joint progress, and compromise can cut through in such a situation. We need to stride towards finding better ways to measure consensus. All options and perspectives should be accounted for in a unified joint consensus.

@TL DR nuclear deterrence... You might want to look into that.

I hayyt it

The fear of death keeps us alive

Yes he did.

like a caveman????

Yep. Just like the Bushes (ex presidents) used to say. Good for a 50 point deficit in perceived IQ.

@@greg_d and nuclear engineer Jimmy Carter.

Hey Columbo!

@@JustAlanIsCool Hi! Now im intersted in war crimes ^^

...because making a nuclear weapon safer and more durable constitutes a war crime?

If it’s an effective deterrent, it’s not useless…

Laughs in agm183

Hahahhaha

What no black scientists, I'm shocked, shocked I say.

Not this ex USN nuclear reactor operator.

We koreans hope for this weapon to be used to stop the communism and socialism.

They stop death when the US uses them.