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Inert nuclear missile found in US man's garage (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 26 points 9 months ago (5 children)

In a press release, police say the device is "in fact a Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1), an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead".

I'm sure I'm missing a trick here but what is the purpose of an air-to-air unguided rocket with a nuclear warhead?? Blowing up other planes with 100000% extra risk whether you hit or miss?

[–] safesyrup@feddit.ch 33 points 9 months ago

There weren‘t any systems to defend large scale fast bombings so they developed this thing which detonated with a time fuze and just took everything out within it‘s blast radius of 300m

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Taking out a large swarm of (presumably, nuclear armed) bombers quickly.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe create an EMP blast to destroy communication infrastructure?

[–] safesyrup@feddit.ch 0 points 9 months ago

There weren‘t any systems to defend large scale fast bombings so they developed this thing which detonated with a time fuze and just took everything out within it‘s blast radius of 300m

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

Lol why not