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Scary Gratuitous Gun Pic

By The Armorer on October 1, 2003 | | Comments (3)

This is what happens when you let an Infantryman play with nukes. They develop the Davy Crockett. While it's not quite true that the blast radius exceeded the range - you didn't have a lot of area to work with! Yes, that little thing on the ground in the right rear is a nuke. Well, not that actual one,of course, since it's in the Watervliet Arsenal museum (well worth the visit if you can get there). So, no, I don't have one - but I wish I did (with an inert warhead, I'm not stoopid!)

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By blaster on October 1, 2003 11:25 PM
My favorite part of the Davy Crockett - blast radius is longer than the range!
 
By blaster on October 1, 2003 11:38 PM
Well, okay, I didn't read the whole post. I think some of the effects stuff in the link you have isn't quite right - it was up to 1 kt. But, yeah, you'd be okay from a mile away at even 1kt.
 
By John of Arghhh! on October 2, 2003 5:14 AM
I actually have a better discussion of effects hiding somewhere back in the archives... but it's still scary to think about actually employing these. Talking to some vets while wandering through the National Infantry Museum, they did allow that it was fun to shoot in training, not that they got to shoot it much! http://infantry.army.mil/museum/index.htm