face revel please

Are you going to do Project Pluto and the connected SLAM missile?

@@icekidMEMER he already did

still waiting on war thunder...

@@gabrielb9010 Where?

Remember when the Germans painted a picture of Remagen bridge at the edge of a cliff and the US Army drove across it, and when the Germans tried to attack them it turned back into a cliff? The whole mid 20th century was a roadrunner cartoon.

It is called The Great Patent Heist. However, the scientists were not abducted! They obeyed the alternative of loosing life and limbs instead for some placement in the US, UK, France or USSR. By the way, these beautiful pictures that they smile? Everything a fakery under pressure. Thankfully all of this will be sooner or later forgotten together with most of books and archives: we don't deserve the future.

Coerced is probably a more accurate word

@@joshuabessire9169 I provide you a picture about Coyote: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner#/media/File:Wile_E._Coyote's_ACME_Instant_Tunnel_at_MIT.jpg

Yeah Its nuts, Its where pressure is put, and wacky ideas the human mind can think of garner attention and funding

The American and Soviets both attempted to make a version which used a coolant loop heated by the reactor to heat the air passing through the engines, but the idea proved to be impractical for the exact reason you mentioned; weight. Both eventually dropped this idea, and the US moved onto a much simpler, much more insane design: using a completely open, unshielded, air cooled reactor *inside the engine.* Instead of a closed cooling loop like a traditional reactor, the design was a supersonic ramjet which superheated air from the atmosphere as it passed through the reactor, and then ejected that superheated (and super-irradiated) air to propel the aircraft. Essentially, they just replaced the combustion chamber in a traditional ramjet with a big mess of fuel rods. And this idea would have worked, actually; it was heavier than a traditional ramjet engine because a reactor weighs a hell of a lot more than a combustion chamber, but that would have been somewhat offset by the plane not needing to carry fuel. The issue, of course, is the whole "open, unshielded, air cooled" thing. Any airstrip it took off from would be heavily contaminated by fallout, and it would dump radioisotopes into the atmosphere in huge quantities anywhere it flew. If it flew low, it would leave a path of death and cancer below it; if it flew high, it would release heavily radioactive material into the upper atmosphere to land wherever the wind carried it. There's no practical way to pilot a plane of this design, and it would have been lethally dangerous for ground service crews too. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and abandoning the idea at that point, the Americans pushed on. What do you do with a plane that's too dangerous to have a pilot, chernobyls any runway it uses, and can never land because it would kill the ground crew? Why, kill all life on earth with it, of course. Unlike the Soviet nuclear powered bomber projects, the US continued development of their SLAM (Supersonic Low Altitude Missile) system after the introduction of ICBMs rendered the idea of a nuclear first strike bomber obsolete. It morphed from a first strike weapon to something more akin to a doomsday weapon; the idea was that in a period of imminent nuclear war, dozens of these could be launched to go loiter over the ocean outside Soviet airspace, potentially for weeks at a time, waiting for the Soviets to launch a first strike. The thought was that there was no way the Soviets could realistically shoot down all of them, even if they barraged the area they were suspected to be loitering with nuclear weapons; some would inevitably sneak through the net. And even one making it through would be a nightmare. In this application, the insanely radioactive exhaust and the danger of an exposed reactor was seen as a benefit; the SLAM would fly around at treetop level, screaming along at mach 3 and attacking as many cities as it could with it's thermonuclear weapons. Once it expended all of its nuclear armaments, it would be programmed to either continue to fly over Soviet territory, or to intentionally crash into something like a city, water reservoir or agricultural area. In the former case, it would circle around over the blasted remains of the Soviet Union, salting the earth with radioactive fallout until it either ran out of fuel and crashed, or until some surviving and very lucky air defense battery shot it down, at which point it would heavily contaminate whatever area it crashed into. In the latter case, the radioactive fuel aboard the plane would be used as a massive dirty bomb, intentionally poisoning the water or food supply with lethal radiation, or rendering a city (or the ruins thereof) uninhabitable for centuries. Either one wouldn't just kill the area under attack; it would make sure it could never recover, too. The goal was to make damned sure that any Soviet attack would result in the complete desolation of the Soviet Union, even if they managed to completely take out the US nuclear capability with a first strike. It also had the benefit of being unmanned; unlike a nuclear submarine or a manned bomber, they didn't have to worry about crewmen deciding *not* to commit a genocidal second strike if a Soviet attack had decapitated the US military command. There was no conscience to be considered here; once the cat was out of the bag, it would keep killing until it was physically unable to do so (and arguably for centuries afterwards). Truly ghoulish shit.

​​​@@a.p.2356Damn, you've done a lot of research into this!

“… the shockwave would cast a mile-wide swath of destruction at ground level, and the heat of the exhaust would start a trail of firestorms in the resulting kindling…. Oh, and the radiation from the reactor would spice things up, too.”

@@a.p.2356 Thank you for the informative comment. That is some really terrifying cold war stuff right there!

Yea a dirty bomb. SBD 😆

I'm just a teenager so i can't say anything, but pretty sure fukusima exploded

@@user-et2dx5du7e The explosions at Fukushima Daiichi were due to hydrogen gas leaking from the overheating reactors into their surrounding buildings. They weren't nuclear explosions in any way.

@@pseudotasuki That's the official story. Even the spent fuel storage ponds went supercritical when it melted down into a "little" pool.

@@alexandergrimsmo That never happened.

Huh?

​@John Karavitis Project Pluto was the United States effort to create nuclear powered ram jets for use in a similar project called Supersonic Low Altitude Missile.

Yeh isn't this just a response to SLAM

да да, и сверхзвуковое оружие они тоже имели уже в 60 годах, только оно до сих пор не летает как надо😂

@@xtz9510 Росія будує сміття.

Actually we would be speaking German. Look at the Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster

​@@Sir_Uncle_Ned Guten Tag

The Russians did win the space race and also kicked ass in the aircraft race.

@@brucebaxter6923 America number 1

Or American

Thank you very much!

Yep, I have never heard of both US and soviet variant until recently. My first thought was "it cant be real. It is too dangerous to do.". Then I learned humans ARE this stupid.

it's straight out of Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"

In the USSR, there was a concept of a nuclear car, with drawings, calculations, and so on.

They trialed it. It used an X-ray beam to turn on and off the nuclear reaction. I forget the details but it didn’t have daughter isotopes and when not stimulated it was stable.

I have a feeling that it’s just a propaganda thing. Even if they are trying to develop a nuclear powered missile the Russian military is so corrupt that it probably will never get built.

Nuclear aircrafts where tried but failed when people stopped doing drugs to realize flying Nuclear reactor was a retarded idea

so you suggest carrying hundreds of tons of water?

I don’t think that’s practical in any way. You’re bringing hundreds of tons of reactor to do a job that turbofans already do without the added weight.

@@peterheinzo515 Sorry, what?

@@notaulgoodman9732 Hundreds of tons? I see you haven’t looked into nuclear jets.

@@peterheinzo515 An a380 Carrie’s 300 tons of fuel.

a supersonic dirty bomb carrying the worlds largest nuke?what could go wrong！