>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwlV_94kPE
Realistically, what would it take to mushroom the town?
>>27802680
You can drop it from a plane but if it's not armed it won't blow up
>>27802680
Arming the nuke. Like seriously, the Air Force did some videos on this back in the late 50s, chucking nukes out of trucks and planes, lighting them on fire, etc, to show how they don't blow up.
>>27802680
> video starts vertical
fucking damn you
> goes horiztonal
Is the guy really not allowed to record this? I hear different things like they're doing it out in the open so it's fine and another saying that it's a matter of national security/looks suspicious.
>>27802680
The spare tire cover on the humvee has words.
What are they?
>>27802680
Arming then detonating the bomb. That's about it.
yup, they've spent a bit of research synthesizing a powerful explosive that's incredibly hard to detonate, even if they just used RDX it's still pretty hard to set off, you either need a detonator or maybe a massive pile that caught fire could do it eventually.
Setting off a nuke by damaging it is sort of like trying to knit a sweater by throwing it into a blender.
>>27802680
Is that...is that not a bit overkill to have that many people with it?
>>27802791
I'm sure they wouldn't actually be able to stop him. But just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.
>>27802863
General rule really, the more powerful an explosive, the harder to detonate.
The easier to detonate, the less powerful it is.
>>27802680
The only type of nuclear bomb that could detonate without proper arming and detonation sequence is the Gun type design, where even flooding the gun tube with water could change the moderation enough to cause a small explosion let alone a high velocity impact. luckily nobody in the world currently fields any of these nukes.
>>27802791
He can record it (if they didn't want you seeing it they'd just transport it in a random Walmart semi or something along those lines).
He says they were trying to stop him filming in the video, but that's obviously bullshit. The cop pulled over to make sure he wasn't suspicious and didn't do anything retarded like pull out.
>>27802895
Would you really want to go light on security for nuke transportation?
>>27802863
Bollocks, there are multiple kinds of explosives within a nuke, non of them extremely hard to detonate. the thing that makes a nuke go boom is the perfectly timed explosion that causes the shockwave to hit the nuclear pit simultaneously from all angles, without that timed explosion from all sides, you wont get a nuclear boom, just a chemical one. so the only way to set off the nuke, is to have all the detonators triggers simultaneously
That's Great Falls Montana. Probably a Minuteman III.
>>27802958
You to now that there wasn't actually a nuke in that truck, right?
>>27802958
I just don't think I'd literally box it in with 8 slow armoured vehicles.
Seems way better to just have an innocuous truck and a few unmarked cars.
>>27802958
But I'm just spitballing here, feel free to call me a retard and explain why.
>>27803000
>You to now
>>27803032
Do know*
fukken autocorrect.
>>27803032
I think he meant, "You too now".
>>27802970
Like I said even RDX is hard to set off without a decent primary explosive, it's very unlikely that it will from impact or fire, it's probably top secret but I'd have a guess that nukes would use EBW's which means the bomb shouldn't have any sensitive primary explosive at all.
>>27802680
They ship nukes and nuclear materials in discreet trucks with discreet escorts, whatever's in there is not a nuke.
>>27803000
No, but whatever. Besides the point I was trying to make.
>>27803000
There was.
>>27802680
>It's not armed
>none of the safeguards work
>more likely to be struck by lightning multiple times than for one to go off as it was supposed to
The most you can hope for is a long burning, hot fire detonates the explosives and scatters the physics package everywhere. A radiological mess, but that's it.
>>27803057
>A Bearcat armored vehicle and a Humvee from the 741st Missile Security Forces Squadron protect a payload transporter during a missile maintenance convoy mission Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Steve Grever/RELEASED)
http://globalstrike.dodlive.mil/2014/02/08/malmstrom-missile-maintainers-successfully-install-reentry-system/
>>27802895
Haven't you ever seen 24?
>>27803016
Well, shit. Why not go full retard and just ship it via UPS?
Then, when the delivery guy shows up with it, he can just leave it propped up against the fence next to the front gate.
>transporting a nuke by truck
that seems extremely irresponsible even with armed security, aren't they supposed to be transferred by plane?
>>27803142
>posting an article that isn't about shipping nuclear material or a nuke itself
Your point?
>>27803057
Probably not a warhead, more likely a missile sans warhead.
Still - tons of solid fuel/explosive in the missile/booster itself.
I'd imagine the newer minuteman bodies being produced are more secret/controlled than their own warhead units, likely because of advances in counter counter measures to ABM's and the like.
It may even just be upgrayyds for the minuteman force
>>27803182
See, you've ironically gone full retard yourself.
There's nothing retarded about transporting a warhead in an inconspicious truck with inconspicious unmarked cars.
>>27803224
Its not going to be fueled for transport is it.
>>27803203
They actually do it via missiles, gotta go fast you know.
>>27803218
Link was just a reference for the caption, which explains who the guys are: 741st Missile Security Forces Squadron
Surely you're clever enough to google them and find out what they do?
[spoiler]they guard ICBMs[/spoiler]
>>27802680
That face when that happened in your hometown sometime in the last month. The building on the far left is a grocery store that just closed its doors, and I've been to the bar across the street... Jesus christ...
>>27803268
They guard ICBM's. Big woop.
That still has nothing to do with transporting nukes or nuclear material.
>>27802981
Anon, are you in Great Falls? Fellow Funk bro here.
>>27803316
So you think they move the minuteman re-entry vehicles and warheads separately? And the truck is called a PAYLOAD transporter and is nuclear certified for no reason?
http://www.warren.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4461
>>27803203
They can, but they generally don't.
Also, if the nuke is only a few hours from the site, it just makes more logistical sense to do it from a convoy.
>>27803355
Fellow Montana fag here.
Yellowstone, high concentration of ICBM platforms. Life in the Zone is fun.
>>27803316
You are an idiot.
You are partially right, though.
>>27803552
True that brother. You on the /k/ map?
http://www.captainswoop.com/icbm/mslpull5a.html
So this truck is hauling a reentry vehicle, with secrets decoys, last generation warheads, guidance systems, ready to be put on top of an ICBM.
In first I thought it was a little bit too much of a show, usually warheads are in normal trucks without the neutron generator or something like that. But here we are talking about a loaded SERV (probably) the thing that will protect the US of A for the next decades and maybe set off TEOTWAWKI
>>27803574
I think so.
Yellowstone county.
>>27802912
Tell that to my friend Alfred Nobel...
PS to those wondering this is common procedure for shipping fissile material. You'll run into them often between Wyoming and Nebraska. They also have a couple of birds in the air during this.
>>27803239
It's solid fuel, some of it is probably fueled at factory, because multiple boost phases are going to require multiple propellant storage. I expect it is shipped with the initial boost phase propellant, and filled on site before being made operational.
>>27802791
Of course he is, do you think they went along the entire planned route, and the alternative routes, telling everyone to switch off their CCTV systems or in-car dashcams?
>>27803039
Sage
2/10
"two" I hate you dysinfo fucks
