Not Technically Fallout Related
Jul. 1st, 2009 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenYou might remember a while back I talked out about the M-388 “Davy Crockett” tactical nuclear recoilless rifle, aka the smallest nuclear warhead ever.
Well, it turns out that those ingenious American weapons designers, having developed the warhead for the M-388, decided to start thinking about what else you could do with a tiny nuclear device.
The obvious conclusion? Use it in an air-to-air missile! From Wikipedia: “…The GAR-11 used a sub-kiloton (250 ton) W54 warhead shared with the 'Davy Crockett' M-388 recoilless rifle projectile, rather than the larger W25 warhead of the AIR-2 Genie nuclear rocket.
Out of concern for the problems inherent in using nuclear weapons over friendly territory, a conventional version of the GAR-11, the GAR-11A, was developed…”
Seriously, a nuclear air-to-air missile? Unless you’re fighting dragons or some sort of boss mothership in a shoot em up game, when exactly would this weapon be anything other than overkill?
Well, it turns out that those ingenious American weapons designers, having developed the warhead for the M-388, decided to start thinking about what else you could do with a tiny nuclear device.
The obvious conclusion? Use it in an air-to-air missile! From Wikipedia: “…The GAR-11 used a sub-kiloton (250 ton) W54 warhead shared with the 'Davy Crockett' M-388 recoilless rifle projectile, rather than the larger W25 warhead of the AIR-2 Genie nuclear rocket.
Out of concern for the problems inherent in using nuclear weapons over friendly territory, a conventional version of the GAR-11, the GAR-11A, was developed…”
Seriously, a nuclear air-to-air missile? Unless you’re fighting dragons or some sort of boss mothership in a shoot em up game, when exactly would this weapon be anything other than overkill?