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Wow I just looked up the second last one, what a crazy event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Philippine_Sea_A-4_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965
by tehsauce 4y ago
Wow I just looked up the second last one, what a crazy event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Philippine_Sea_A-4_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Philippine_Sea_A-4_incide...
"The attack jet fell over the side during a training exercise while being rolled from the number 2 hangar bay to the number 2 elevator. The pilot, the aircraft, and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered from the 16,000 ft depth."
- petre 4y agoWait, they train with live nukes? Why? Just in case the US needs to nuke North Korea? A military exercise is taking place as we speak, all while Kim Jong Um is launching ICBMs and issuing threats to show off.
- mwint 4y agoProbably because the only real way to know you can fly with real nukes is to fly with real nukes. Anyone who has done integration testing with mocked stuff knows you never have a perfect analog. Imagine if the practice nukes armed with an “ARM” command, but the real ones expect “ARM\n”… that kinda stuff.
- waste_monk 4y agoOr "arm, please"... nuclear weapons demand respect :)
- moffkalast 4y ago"That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point."