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I just had to look it up. It had a 1.5KT yield, was called Operation Plum Bob, and detonation was between 18,500' and 20,000' above mean see level (15,000 AGL @ Yucca Flats) and it was said that the dosage the observers received in neutron and gama was negligible :neutral:. It was to show that the weapon could be used over populated areas. I wonder if they handed out the film badges afterwards. Cheers, Bruce.
The Nuke warhead for the Nike Herc detonated at just about that altitude too. But it had a hell of a lot heavier warhead then 1.5kt Always wondered about what the radiation and ground damage would be from one of those. When I was doing environmental site assessments at former Nike sites for the Corp of Engineer it was amazing how many site had nuke warheads, normally only 1 per battery, the largest number I found was 3.
hello,
nice 10cm ostry g-srapnel vz21, any other pics of fuze please?
Now you miss only the 10cm ostry minovy granat vz 21.
best regards
None. It looks like what, at White Sands, we used to call a telemetry round, used to test processes and gather flight data for a more complicated projectile that we normally referred to as just "the new 8-inch".
