Lovely morning for a shitpost.

  • Gamer_time [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What are they gonna do? Throw it at the red army with a trebuchet?!

      • Gamer_time [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I'd imagine they'd have to tape down the two hemispheres around it and then launch it to leave a supercritical ball of plutonium angrily sitting out in a field. It'd probably kill the loader and whoever got close to it. Theoretically a extremely expensive, ineffective and most likely unreliable piece of area denial.

        • invo_rt [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          a extremely expensive, ineffective and most likely unreliable piece of area denial.

          this sounds like a job for the military industrial complex :porky-happy:

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Theoretically a extremely expensive, ineffective and most likely unreliable piece of area denial.

          Didn't stop nerds from fantasizing about using that Davy Crockett nuclear mortar thing

            • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Some DoD brain genius thought that would be a good way to deliver a nuclear blast?

              Clearly they need another forfty quajillion dollars

                • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Yeah, the Davy Crockett was for blowing up small formations of tanks and creating an irradiated area to discourage troops from moving through. They had all kinds of weird shit like nuclear land mines and backpack nukes that were supposed to be more like conventional weapons on a grand scale than the giant city-buster weapons.

    • Homestar440 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Oh god, remember when trebuchets were like a big internet thing