Tonopah Test Range B61 Flight Test in Slow Motion 

Brian Streufert yeah it would be amazing

What constitutes as a project bigger then your personal self? I mean c'mon it can't be anything they work on at Sandia.

26 years at the place was really just that, amazing.

So does SpaceX, I think. They're just using it to view VoIP streams.

what is vlc

Ps5 is coming out with 8k

At Sandia, all of the duct tape is yellow. That's the secret to testing nuclear weapons! 😃

Yep...thats why we can shoot one anywhere in the world!

They got that special whole sheet type

Farm works physics department

Fake.

Extremely primitive. We can do better.

very anti-climactic

Sandia did something. I guess.

It's a simulated drop of a nuclear weapon. In a real combat drop of a live weapon, there would be a selectable yield of anywhere from 0.3 to 400 kilotons. You don't really want to see such a drop in your lifetime.

Oh yeah, how interesting. Wonder why that was, you’d think it would make more sense to use an F-15 from Nellis.

that's definitely what it is.

Couldn't they explain what was tested, right??

Basically, they are testing the reliability of gravity dropped nuclear bombs, specifically the B61 Mod 12. The tail fin guidance package is a 1-2 billion dollar development program. The overall B61 dev program is an 11 billion dollar development program. The goal of tests like these is basically what you see in this video: perfect nose-down impacts with in-tact stabilizers. At the end of the video, you can see the failures of previous tail fin designs: broken fin stabilizers, broken housings, etc. When you're using a nuclear weapons with a low yield of less than 50 kilotons, where it lands is very important, especially in Europe where battle lines are anticipated to be close and rapidly evolving. Or if your target is a carrier battle group, the targeting systems need to be able to be launched close and steerable since that's a small moving target. Since the deploying aircraft are supersonic, the launch systems and targeting systems need to be super accurate for the weapon to say hit a Russian target vs. a NATO or friendly Asian target. This Mod 12 program is meant to develop tactical nuclear weapons with a 20 year shelf life. So the engineers want to get this right. They want to know that the system will work in all conditions. It does beg the question of whether or not nuclear deployment is a politically reasonable or survivable move for a sitting president. Trump would do it because he doesn't care about American isolation. But I don't think any of the Bush family presidents or other hawkish Republican presidents would have carried out the use of nuclear weapons. And you have to question recent internet attacks by the Russian government against the US. It could be a way to harden hawks in Congress to fund additional highly expensive programs like this as a way of destabilizing the US financially, the way the US destabilized the USSR with the Star Wars program. Attack a country, cause that country to spend more assets on defense, create paranoia, the country stops developing infrastructure, cuts ties with allies... It's a strategy that works and is working for Russia not just with the current Trump administration but even before that. I believe this program was started in 2013. Info source from Wikipedia so some of this info may be inaccurate.

This isn't a flight test of the Mod 12. Wrong tail fin and the Mod 12 doesn't have a parachute.

Mike Tatjes I wish you all the worst in your life

Loved the F (FB) 111...The Aardvark, one of the coolest looking planes every made.

@@MikeM275 F-111F

In 1975 I did a mission manual for the F-111F - many different mission profiles and assorted B-61 bomb loads. I probably nuked the entire planet in that manual!

@@MilicOjler Why? Not a single one was ever used in anger. Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine worked.

Guess they'll need to retest! I was thinking cutting to a white screen just as the weapons touched ground might have been a nice touch....

Oh did I mention knocking out all of their ability to use computer communication and navigation systems. Throw them back into the Stone Age with one well-placed electromagnetic pulse.

@@BillDerBerg They will need a machine that goes "Ping" to do that.

Yesterday, Iranian centifuges, tomorrow....

hehe, yep

You can go there and watch them launch missiles... They have public viewing days.

Ce n’est pas une zone secrète

As if the north wind did not break your umbrella.

Don't worry, we are used for the North, kremlebotina.

I'm a Kremlin? You're a fool?

Fake.

It has a laydown fuzing mode.

Multiple fusing options....including lay-down.

Among other things.

An inert nuclear bomb, not a rocket.

Hide under your bed. You'll be fine.

Hollywood has always done better films. But reality is not a movie.

umm.... no dude. That's not how it works at all. Which btw, the aircraft the dropped the two bombs on japan were B29s not B52s and couldnt carry even half the bomb load as a B52, so your logic is just plain wrong.

Jahsher Sha: Go home, you are drunk.