Comment on US to build new nuclear gravity bomb
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year agoThe explosion would kill the pilot if they were that close.
No - if you’re indoors you can generally survive a massive nuclear bomb form as close as 2 miles and they’re probably close to 4 miles up in the air when they drop the bomb, and travelling at very high speed so they’ll be a lot further than 4 miles from the explosion when it goes off.
ours@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know if they still do this but during the Cold War, they would practice tossing nukes.
The plane flies low and fast, at the right time it climbs hard, belly up and at the top of the loop releases the bomb. While the plane continues its loop downward, the bomb continues in a ballistic trajectory. By the time it hits the target, the plane spends a minimum of time at altitude and a good distance from its target and can GTFO.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toss_bombing