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09-01-2005, 05:25 PM
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#121 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I think the US devised a seminuclear warhead to detonate against enemy planes in the 60s or so...can't remember much about it, not sure if it was ever made, but I know it was under consideration at some point
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09-02-2005, 08:54 AM
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#122 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Yep, they had the MB-1 Genie that was used with the F-101 Voodoo. Quote: |
Douglas began developing the air-launched MB-1 (later Air 2) Genie rocket in 1955, with the Los Alamos National Laboratory responsible for the nuclear warhead. The Genie rocket was carried by the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo and was unguided, relying on the power of its 1.5-kiloton nuclear warhead. The Genie was the first nuclear-armed interceptor rocket to be tested, and its first flight was July 19, 1957. Lethal radius was an estimated 1,000 feet.
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09-03-2005, 09:03 AM
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#123 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | I think a nuclear warhead for air to air interception is overkill.
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09-03-2005, 09:14 AM
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#124 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | Interesting how in that article they state that Voodoos were built under licence in Canada. They weren't. The RCAF acquired 58 of them made to order from McDonnell, and then traded them in for 66 apparently more up to date used ones some years later from the USAF. | |
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09-03-2005, 09:15 AM
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#125 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | Yep - for it to really be worth it a formation of 100 bombers would have to be in front of you, someting someone thought might happen!
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09-03-2005, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet I think a nuclear warhead for air to air interception is overkill. | Its not overkill if that bomber youre shooting at has several nukes aboard.
No points for second place in nuke warfare
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09-03-2005, 11:45 AM
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#127 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | You'd just better hope you're out of the blast radius when that mother goes off. | |
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09-03-2005, 02:06 PM
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#128 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Its not overkill if that bomber youre shooting at has several nukes aboard.
No points for second place in nuke warfare | Too true.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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09-03-2005, 07:57 PM
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#129 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Nonskimmer You'd just better hope you're out of the blast radius when that mother goes off. | Even if you're destroyed, youve saved cities or installations. Fair trade in the cold math of warfare.
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09-03-2005, 08:01 PM
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#130 | | He who does not skim
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09-04-2005, 02:30 AM
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#131 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | unless the plane you destroyed turned out to be some civilian airliner that just happened to be an ex-soviet bomber 
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09-04-2005, 08:13 AM
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#132 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | I am sure thought that they would not mistaken a civilian liner like that.
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09-04-2005, 11:22 AM
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#133 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | and if, as i said, this airliner happened to be an ex soviet bomber
what, it could happen 
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09-04-2005, 11:26 AM
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#134 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country:  | I wouldnt fly with an airline like that, or "Bearline" as they might call it 
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09-04-2005, 11:53 AM
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#135 | | Master of Ewes
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