Why do my nukes fizzle?

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Besides Jug and I wonder how many people here are or were SIOP certified? I miss SAC.

 

Yo! Ex-SIOP warrior here...

 

SAC was good for the SIOP...but not so good in the post-Cold War world. The mentality was too inflexible for implementing post-Cold War conventional bomber operations.

 

FastCargo

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I like your idea Jug.

 

hgbn for your idea in Europe it would be more interesting as the Russians as they also had chemical weapons.

 

 

Yeah I Know, just hated those NBC drills all the time when I was in service :tomato2:

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It quickly became: If you see the FLASH, duck and crawl to the nearest cemetary

[Lexx_Luthor 57]

Jug::

Speaking of nuclear fun and games, has anyone modeled a SIOP strike (single integrated operations plan - cold war ops plan to nuke Russia back to the stone age) using the B-52G or H or the FB-111.

That's what I'm kinda doing with Siberian Sky, but earlier with more classical B-26, B-29, B-36 (possible wip?), B-45, B-47, B-50, B-52, B-57, B-58, B-66, B-70, etc...with lots of escort (F-47N, F-51H, F-82, and on up), and what I like to call penetration fighters clearing corridors of hostile interceptors.

 

Original Siberian Sky thread, with embarassingly outdated Environment file grafix ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3233

 

 

Jug, did you see people wearing eye patches as described below...?

 

INTERVIEW WITH OVIDIO PUGNALE - 30.8.1996 ~> http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/inter...2/pugnale3.html

 

INT: Good answer. What was it like to fly a B-52 at low level at top speed?

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...We had to fly the airplane manually, and it was a handful and get a little bumpy and some heat thermal and we had what we called 'thermal curtains' and these thermal curtains where you have all this glass around you, these windows. What you did, you pulled up all these curtains and the co-pilot, or whoever was not flying the airplane, had a little peephole there, maybe a six by six square. Everything else was closed and they wore.. now this may sound like I'm telling a story and an interesting anecdote.. add later on. We wore an eye-patch, one eye-patch covered one eye so that, you know, we.. then there.. and the co-pilot or the other pilot was kind of a safety observer. If something was coming up or something like that. Now, because there were weapons going off all over the place and these nuclear blasts, this light would blind you so if one went off, you got blinded. But you only got blinded in one eye, you see. So, you know, that may sound like a story but it's the truth to the extent that we used to get we'd get a pilot, a co-pilot, on alert for the first time. Someone would get a pair of goggles, the eye-patch, and they would tell him, says 'now you have to wear this on alert'. So 'what, why do I have to wear this?'. 'It's practice. You have to learn to see with one eye because when you fly, you're going to be sitting over there operating with one eye and while you're on alert here, this is the opportune time to do that' and of course this co-pilot would be walking round the facility with this one with this eye-patch on and of course everybody else would.. giggle and laugh about it.. at him. They knew that this young man had been had and after he found out about it, why, he, you know, was.. (interviewer laughs) it was something that.. we did to relieve some stress...

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Edited January 28, 2008 by Lexx_Luthor

[sparkomatic 7]

In Awe...

[+Julhelm 266]

I have a B-36 early wip for anyone who wants to finish it.