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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
Al G wrote: "SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message ... I spent my 11 years in the USAF as a weapons loader and technician. Well I'm just an armchair pilot like many in this group so what do I know about nuclear bombs and what they look like. BUT.... CURIOUS QUESTION. Wouldn't it be a smart move to paint these little buggers in a special vibrant day glo colour that someone looking at them from a hundred yards would be able to recognize them for what they are. I mean how could so many people handle such a thing and not realize that they were nukes. ARN'T THEY LABELED..????????????? Now if they were day glo yellow with nuclear bomb imprinted down the length in a font size that could not be missed...... Does that sound too logical. Training weapons are blue, real weapons are not. There is a small window that the crew is required to look through to confirm what kind of weapon the are carrying. No one did this. Well, at least until the error was discovered. You don't want the ability to confirm a weapons status from a distance, that would constitute confirming the presence of a real weapon publicly, which we do not do. I've seen people court marshaled for a minor violation of the two man rule. Heads should roll, and that should start at the top. No one was watching, and no one was watching the watchers. As someone said earlier, the only guy that should get a "get out of jail free" card is the airman that caught it. The person the "caught" it probably will be the one to get persecuted... JT (If experience means anything) |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
"Herman" wrote in message ... I suppose it would have been allright if they had flown over any other country. Americans are, after all, more important than other people. Except for Australians. We rule |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
"CWO4 Dave Mann" wrote in message . .. Herman wrote: I suppose it would have been allright if they had flown over any other country. Americans are, after all, more important than other people. Regards, Herman "Square Wheels" schreef in bericht news http://news.aol.com/story/_a/70-puni...19214309990002 -- G O T R I B E !!! Vote Kenny Lofton for Governor of Ohio! I was an Army SIOP custodian for 2 years. Rules for flying over anyone's country with special weapons on board are complex and strict. As for these careless assholes, I would have preferred to see a Danny Deever Drum Out starting with the Secretary of the Air Force. This incident really has not gotten as much publicity and public outrage as it should have. But, considering the Army kept the fact of a loose SADAM secret for some 25 years, I am not surprised to read some of the bull**** which was spread by the "official press releases". I say cut their nuts off and post them on the bulletin board. ****ups like this absolutely must never be allowed to happen again. Dave I thought that Nukes were always flying around America. Or used to. However, you're comments about rules about Nukes in foreign countries being strict etc, we're told in Australia that we can not be told if they have Nukes on board the carriers or not. We just assume they are. Or are you saying that our Government knowingly lets Nukes in. That would be not quite how they portray it.m(but then all politicins are lying little *******s) And kind of makes more sense on the Kiwi stand of not allowing them. |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
Glenn wrote:
"CWO4 Dave Mann" wrote in message . .. Herman wrote: I suppose it would have been allright if they had flown over any other country. Americans are, after all, more important than other people. Regards, Herman "Square Wheels" schreef in bericht news http://news.aol.com/story/_a/70-puni...19214309990002 -- G O T R I B E !!! Vote Kenny Lofton for Governor of Ohio! I was an Army SIOP custodian for 2 years. Rules for flying over anyone's country with special weapons on board are complex and strict. As for these careless assholes, I would have preferred to see a Danny Deever Drum Out starting with the Secretary of the Air Force. This incident really has not gotten as much publicity and public outrage as it should have. But, considering the Army kept the fact of a loose SADAM secret for some 25 years, I am not surprised to read some of the bull**** which was spread by the "official press releases". I say cut their nuts off and post them on the bulletin board. ****ups like this absolutely must never be allowed to happen again. Dave I thought that Nukes were always flying around America. Or used to. However, you're comments about rules about Nukes in foreign countries being strict etc, we're told in Australia that we can not be told if they have Nukes on board the carriers or not. We just assume they are. Or are you saying that our Government knowingly lets Nukes in. That would be not quite how they portray it.m(but then all politicins are lying little *******s) And kind of makes more sense on the Kiwi stand of not allowing them. A priori: ALL politicians of whatever stripe are duplicitous thieves to whom prevarication is a way of life. The official US Government policy concerning Special Weapons is to neither confirm or deny existence in any one particular place or time. That means that the Aircraft Carrier on a port call may or may not have SW on board. Same with storage facilities, and so forth. It is nothing more than a political charade since any real enemy knows where they are. For example, back in the days of thousands of ICBM's on constant watch, the US Government would not release to anyone the locations and which were armed with nuclear weapons. However, at the diplomatic level, the US State Department routinely exchanged map coordinates of US and USSR missile installations as part of various strategic verification measures. Thus, while the tax-paying US citizen was denied information, our arch enemy the USSR got it for free. Anyway, you can use common sense if you are a military person or combat buff. Any vehicle which has a "strategic mission" can be guaranteed to be nuclear capable. That includes cruise missiles carried aboard ships at sea, various air craft, submarines and so forth. Look at Jane's and you will see that there are such things as nuclear depth charges, torpedoes, demolition devices, and so forth, in addition to the odd 20 Megaton Hydrogen fusion device (reportedly the largest in the US inventory). Back in the day when the Army Engineers developed plans to deny the Fulda Gap to an on-rush of Soviet tanks, nuclear demolition charges were stockpiled and ready to be easily emplaced. Not much thought was given to the surrounding countryside of course, since it was assumed that should those devices be employed, tactical devices fired from 155mm, 120mm and 8" howitzers would have already been used. Today the greatest challenge facing the US nuclear inventory is "will they still work". That is because of the exposure of internal components to hard radiation and deterioration of said components. That is why the PanTex facility continues to take in devices shipped from all over the place and either rebuild them or de-militarize them. De-milled weapons are separated into the fissile and non-fissile materials. The fissile materials are either placed into storage or processed for other uses or re-processed to make new weapons grade fissile materials. The mechanical parts are recycled as scrap after destruction so that their identity as components of a special weapon is erradicated. For pieces of equipment which are radioactive, they are reduced to a shredded mulch and stored in a nuclear waste container and facility. We do not need as many nukes as we needed back in the old days of The Main Enemy. It was always strategy that at least one half of deployed weapons would be rendered ineffective by combat action before use (fancy words meaning that your missile silo was hit by an enemy nuke before you could launch). That added to the strategy of the Nuclear Triad (silo launched sytems, submarine launched systems and airplane launched systems) required something like 40,000 special weapons. That inventory include such oddities as Davy Crockett Atomic Mortar rounds, Special Atomic Demolition Munitions (SADAM) -- the quintessential "suitcase nuke" although it was actually a backpack-able device slightly smaller in size of a 5 gallon paint can and weighing about 75 lbs. (See, if you were a Special Forces Engineer, you would parachute into enemy territory and set the timer for a few minutes and then attempt to be a mile or two way when it went off.). Today, the USA still has enough special weapons to rule the world many times over. Note that I do not use the phrase "destroy the world". We ARE the preeminent nuclear power in the world and will be so for the foreseeable future. Even China and the old Soviet Unions various fragments can't possible approach our capabilities for deployment and strategic or tactical employment. For example, think about the potential of launching nukes at the capital cities of every nation in the world which has ****ed us off in the past few years. So we use up a couple hundred nukes? We still have several thousand left to make sure the melted stay melted and irradiated for a hundred years. The Lesser Countries of the World may yap all they want, just like the stray dogs they resemble, but at the end of the day the USA still has several thousand nukes which can be delivered in an elegant and effective manner. This, of course, is the penultimate Jingoistic Wet Dream, but most people in the world would not believe just how many Americans of all colors, religions, political perpetuation, have frequent dreams of a world cleansing by the USA with the attendant bending of that world to OUR rules. The End |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
I see there are some deeply-held feelings about lying weasle-word
politicians (on which I could not possibly comment) but you guys may find this report of the officila version of events interesting: http://dailyreport.afa.org/AFA/Repor...Month10/Day22/ Happy reading :-) Andy On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:16:36 GMT, Grumpy AuContraire wrote: Al G wrote: "SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message ... I spent my 11 years in the USAF as a weapons loader and technician. Well I'm just an armchair pilot like many in this group so what do I know about nuclear bombs and what they look like. BUT.... CURIOUS QUESTION. Wouldn't it be a smart move to paint these little buggers in a special vibrant day glo colour that someone looking at them from a hundred yards would be able to recognize them for what they are. I mean how could so many people handle such a thing and not realize that they were nukes. ARN'T THEY LABELED..????????????? Now if they were day glo yellow with nuclear bomb imprinted down the length in a font size that could not be missed...... Does that sound too logical. Training weapons are blue, real weapons are not. There is a small window that the crew is required to look through to confirm what kind of weapon the are carrying. No one did this. Well, at least until the error was discovered. You don't want the ability to confirm a weapons status from a distance, that would constitute confirming the presence of a real weapon publicly, which we do not do. I've seen people court marshaled for a minor violation of the two man rule. Heads should roll, and that should start at the top. No one was watching, and no one was watching the watchers. As someone said earlier, the only guy that should get a "get out of jail free" card is the airman that caught it. The person the "caught" it probably will be the one to get persecuted... JT (If experience means anything) |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:41:29 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann
wrote: This, of course, is the penultimate Jingoistic Wet Dream, but most people in the world would not believe just how many Americans of all colors, religions, political perpetuation, have frequent dreams of a world cleansing by the USA with the attendant bending of that world to OUR rules. Sounds just like the Yenc "debate"! (Sorry guys - just couldn't resist it!) andy Oh go on! Smile!! |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
CWO4 Dave Mann wrote: Glenn wrote: "CWO4 Dave Mann" wrote in message . .. Herman wrote: I suppose it would have been allright if they had flown over any other country. Americans are, after all, more important than other people. Regards, Herman "Square Wheels" schreef in bericht news http://news.aol.com/story/_a/70-puni...19214309990002 -- G O T R I B E !!! Vote Kenny Lofton for Governor of Ohio! I was an Army SIOP custodian for 2 years. Rules for flying over anyone's country with special weapons on board are complex and strict. As for these careless assholes, I would have preferred to see a Danny Deever Drum Out starting with the Secretary of the Air Force. This incident really has not gotten as much publicity and public outrage as it should have. But, considering the Army kept the fact of a loose SADAM secret for some 25 years, I am not surprised to read some of the bull**** which was spread by the "official press releases". I say cut their nuts off and post them on the bulletin board. ****ups like this absolutely must never be allowed to happen again. Dave I thought that Nukes were always flying around America. Or used to. However, you're comments about rules about Nukes in foreign countries being strict etc, we're told in Australia that we can not be told if they have Nukes on board the carriers or not. We just assume they are. Or are you saying that our Government knowingly lets Nukes in. That would be not quite how they portray it.m(but then all politicins are lying little *******s) And kind of makes more sense on the Kiwi stand of not allowing them. A priori: ALL politicians of whatever stripe are duplicitous thieves to whom prevarication is a way of life. The official US Government policy concerning Special Weapons is to neither confirm or deny existence in any one particular place or time. That means that the Aircraft Carrier on a port call may or may not have SW on board. Same with storage facilities, and so forth. It is nothing more than a political charade since any real enemy knows where they are. For example, back in the days of thousands of ICBM's on constant watch, the US Government would not release to anyone the locations and which were armed with nuclear weapons. However, at the diplomatic level, the US State Department routinely exchanged map coordinates of US and USSR missile installations as part of various strategic verification measures. Thus, while the tax-paying US citizen was denied information, our arch enemy the USSR got it for free. Anyway, you can use common sense if you are a military person or combat buff. Any vehicle which has a "strategic mission" can be guaranteed to be nuclear capable. That includes cruise missiles carried aboard ships at sea, various air craft, submarines and so forth. Look at Jane's and you will see that there are such things as nuclear depth charges, torpedoes, demolition devices, and so forth, in addition to the odd 20 Megaton Hydrogen fusion device (reportedly the largest in the US inventory). Back in the day when the Army Engineers developed plans to deny the Fulda Gap to an on-rush of Soviet tanks, nuclear demolition charges were stockpiled and ready to be easily emplaced. Not much thought was given to the surrounding countryside of course, since it was assumed that should those devices be employed, tactical devices fired from 155mm, 120mm and 8" howitzers would have already been used. Today the greatest challenge facing the US nuclear inventory is "will they still work". That is because of the exposure of internal components to hard radiation and deterioration of said components. That is why the PanTex facility continues to take in devices shipped from all over the place and either rebuild them or de-militarize them. De-milled weapons are separated into the fissile and non-fissile materials. The fissile materials are either placed into storage or processed for other uses or re-processed to make new weapons grade fissile materials. The mechanical parts are recycled as scrap after destruction so that their identity as components of a special weapon is erradicated. For pieces of equipment which are radioactive, they are reduced to a shredded mulch and stored in a nuclear waste container and facility. We do not need as many nukes as we needed back in the old days of The Main Enemy. It was always strategy that at least one half of deployed weapons would be rendered ineffective by combat action before use (fancy words meaning that your missile silo was hit by an enemy nuke before you could launch). That added to the strategy of the Nuclear Triad (silo launched sytems, submarine launched systems and airplane launched systems) required something like 40,000 special weapons. That inventory include such oddities as Davy Crockett Atomic Mortar rounds, Special Atomic Demolition Munitions (SADAM) -- the quintessential "suitcase nuke" although it was actually a backpack-able device slightly smaller in size of a 5 gallon paint can and weighing about 75 lbs. (See, if you were a Special Forces Engineer, you would parachute into enemy territory and set the timer for a few minutes and then attempt to be a mile or two way when it went off.). Today, the USA still has enough special weapons to rule the world many times over. Note that I do not use the phrase "destroy the world". We ARE the preeminent nuclear power in the world and will be so for the foreseeable future. Even China and the old Soviet Unions various fragments can't possible approach our capabilities for deployment and strategic or tactical employment. For example, think about the potential of launching nukes at the capital cities of every nation in the world which has ****ed us off in the past few years. So we use up a couple hundred nukes? We still have several thousand left to make sure the melted stay melted and irradiated for a hundred years. The Lesser Countries of the World may yap all they want, just like the stray dogs they resemble, but at the end of the day the USA still has several thousand nukes which can be delivered in an elegant and effective manner. This, of course, is the penultimate Jingoistic Wet Dream, but most people in the world would not believe just how many Americans of all colors, religions, political perpetuation, have frequent dreams of a world cleansing by the USA with the attendant bending of that world to OUR rules. The End And yet some politicos want to strip this cushion away... grrrrr JT |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)
"Herman" wrote in message ... I suppose it would have been allright if they had flown over any other country. Isn't that what they're for? (tongue in cheek) Seriously, I doubt that anyone would have anything to worry about unless they were the intended recipient of the parcel. It's more an expression of faith than actual knowledge, but I believe that for a nuclear event to occur, there would need to be a much more complex unbroken chain of errors than actually happened. Maybe I'm mistaken. Americans are, after all, more important than other people. We *are* "other people". TP |
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70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!) Not armed, loaded.
My tuppence worth:-
Tereis no way it would get anywhere near being Armed; Armed means ready to drop. Loaded is entirely different; weapons can be loaded on an aircraft and be perfectly safe, but armed is a whole different kettle of fish. Particularly for Special Weapons, which need, typically, three components with extreme safeguards on each, to be brought together and assembled before anything remotely like instant sunshine can occur. On top of that special coded sequences while in flight have to be carried out for the weapons to self -arm (in the old days Core assembly in flight was done manually). Cunning Plan!!! I'll give you a Cunning Plan! -- --------------------------------- --- -- - Posted with NewsLeecher v3.8 Final Web @ http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet ------------------- ----- ---- -- - |
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