Back in battery…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
I’m down to the last two cells, but I’m back…LOL


Thanks much to the Nerds, Spear, Farm Girl, and Indy for the hosting and the fun!


But I have to say those 0-dark-30 get ups get old… Luckily, I was basically able to stay on right coast time, so the flights weren’t bad, BUT I was nodding off at 2000 left coast time every night!


SO anyhoo…


The trivia question was this-



And the answer was the M-29 Davy Crockett! NOT something I’d have wanted to be shooting… Just sayin…

And a couple of other rather interesting things observed…


The scariest words in the military lexicon are “Broken Arrow”, which is a nuclear incident.  These pics are the ‘shells’ from two of the real Broken Arrows that have occurred…


And last but not least, one of ‘technical’ interest!

The white object in the background is a complete MIRV, and the foreground is a fired MIRV that was recovered after a test firing.  Of note is the amount of ablation that occurs on re-entry!


These pics were taken at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, NM.


Now off to catch up on my reading…

Comments

Back in battery… — 7 Comments

  1. Personally, I don’t think “Broken Arrow” is quite as scary as “Empty Quiver,” which means a nuclear weapon has been stolen.

  2. Circa 1965 our units provided various levels of support in the Gap. We were V Corps Engineer Group. None of the folks running M113s and M151s along the fence expected to live more than five minutes if the balloon went up.

    I was always damn glad to get out of the area after we finished our work.

  3. LOL – you and I *have* to have beers some time. That’s a great museum, and when I went there I also posted pictures of the Davy Crocket along with the obligatory Whiskey Tango Foxtrot …

  4. Raptor- True… Thankfully, that “I” know of, that has never been used.

    WSF- Understood, and few here ever realized that!

    BP- Damn… so my for ‘my’ originality… And yeah, we’ve GOT to do beers!