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I first heard of this as part of the backstory to Metal Gear Solid 3, and was sure Hideo Kojima had made it up. The idea of soldiers carrying nuclear weapons in
by 0xcde4c3db 8y ago
I first heard of this as part of the backstory to Metal Gear Solid 3, and was sure Hideo Kojima had made it up. The idea of soldiers carrying nuclear weapons into battle seemed too ridiculous to be real.
- rjsw 8y agoI remember reading a post from someone who was trying to track down one of the backpacks that had been designed to carry the Davy Crockett bomb.
- rdl 8y agoThe backpacks for the Special Atomic Demolition Munitions (SADM) would be better, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni...
- fenwick67 8y agoThe flying platforms from MGS3 are real too, believe it or not, although they never saw combat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet
- krylon 8y agoWhoa! A flying Segway, 30 years before the Segway!
- JCSato 8y agoNo way! I was so sure those were a Kojima-ism
- tomjakubowski 8y agoI am excited to learn the real-life basis for those incubator "things" in Death Stranding.
- Waterluvian 8y agoI thought the same thing about the Fulton recovery system. Really feels like the cold war era was this era of advanced technology infancy, where we were going wild about all the possibilities. So much half baked mad Science and engineering that made it really far into development.
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