• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being “too provocative.” Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.

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        4 months ago

        If you’re ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico you can see it in the nuclear museum (can’t recall what it’s specifically called)

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      This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.

      How was that weapon supposed to work? “Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces”. It’s not much of a threat is it.

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        The yield is small enough that it isn’t a threat to the soldiers launching it. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the one tasked with firing it.