Fun Fact a cold war project the “big stick” (Nuclear powered, Nuclear ICBM) had a “problem” that it’s exhaust was radioactive. Then the military said, no, that’s bonus damage, it will spread radiation even over enemy cities it doesn’t target, and we can fly it over more places to take advantage of that.
I heard you like to irradiate things, so I put a nuke in your nuke, so you can irradiate while you irradiate.
A project Pluto powered missile really would be the ultimate ‘screw you’, it could fly around enemy territory for days or more, spewing radioactive exhaust, launching warheads as it went, before finally hitting a target. Shoot it down and you have a nuclear mess, don’t and you have a wider nuclear mess.
Cunning. Extra munitions built into the airframe and deployable with minimal manual intervention. We’ll take 50.
Fun Fact a cold war project the “big stick” (Nuclear powered, Nuclear ICBM) had a “problem” that it’s exhaust was radioactive. Then the military said, no, that’s bonus damage, it will spread radiation even over enemy cities it doesn’t target, and we can fly it over more places to take advantage of that.
I heard you like to irradiate things, so I put a nuke in your nuke, so you can irradiate while you irradiate.
A project Pluto powered missile really would be the ultimate ‘screw you’, it could fly around enemy territory for days or more, spewing radioactive exhaust, launching warheads as it went, before finally hitting a target. Shoot it down and you have a nuclear mess, don’t and you have a wider nuclear mess.
You can’t out-NCD Strategic Air Command
You mean this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
The plane itself becomes a weapon in a pinch. Now that’s what I call efficiency.