Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #32
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- 0800032 - U.S. Army Presents MF20 9811, Ivy Flats Film Report - 1962 - 17:35 - Black&White - Ivy Flats, a 1962 tactical military exercise at the Nevada Test Site, involved the detonation of live nuclear rounds fired from the Davy Crockett artillery piece. The Davy Crockett was developed to give U.S. Army units an effective nuclear capability against potentially larger units of Soviet armored forces.
The Davy Crockett, a recoilless launcher, was the third artillery piece deployed, those earlier being a l55 mm piece designed to fire a nuclear round and a 288 mm mobile piece, commonly called an "atomic cannon." Nuclear-capable ground artillery pieces were gradually replaced by increasingly accurate, nuclear carrying missiles and aircraft.
The Ivy Flats video shows an Army exercise that was observed by visiting dignitaries, including U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and General Maxwell Taylor, a Presidential military adviser. Participating in the exercise were members of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division from Ft. Lewis, Washington.
Ivy Flats was a "battle" between a large simulated enemy armored force and a smaller U.S. force consisting of conventional artillery pieces, which could not stop the pending onslaught. U.S. Army squads then arrive in armored personnel carriers and set up the heavy (l55 mm) and light (120 mm) versions of recoilless launchers. The Davy Crockett fired a nuclear round that decimated the mock opposing force.
The Davy Crockett was deployed from 1961 to 1971. The heavy version was transported by either an armored personnel carrier or a large truck. The light version was generally carried on and fired from an Army jeep, but could be carried for a short distance and fired by a 3-man team.
The W-54 nuclear warhead in a projectile was launched by the Davy Crockett and had a subkiloton yield. The projectile was 30 inches long, 11 inches in diameter, and weighed 76 pounds. The l55 mm launcher had a maximum range of 13,000 feet, and the 120 mm could reach a distance of 6,561 feet.
I was in a deployed Davy Crockett platoon. It was clearly explained how hazardous the duty was. Every man was a volunteer. Most critics think it was dangerous because of radioactive fallout if wind blew toward the launcher--it was really the possibility of counterfire from opposing artillery, since the DC put up an impressive plume of blowback dust when it fired. We trained to boogie out after the shot.
Thank You Brother for your service! Most of these kids don't understand the difference in threat from 1962 to 2017 (55 years). Its like the difference between your service and TR charging up Kettle/San Juan Hills on horseback with a cavalry sabre overhead.I was in the USAF in Germany where we had F-16 fighters loaded with B-61 nukes that were 50-250 kiloton weapons. Thank God we never had to employ them but I know we would have if it was necessary.Peace!
Make sure to check your Pip Boy for radiation levels after exposure
Does anyone else get the chills from watching this
16:05 Note to self: In case of nuclear war keep broom handy.
All this in July in the Nevada desert. Good Training!!
@Wes Price: It wasn't JFK in the footage, it was the then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
I _thought_ I saw RFK! I actually scrolled down to the comments to see if anyone else thought that looked like Bobby.
As someone said nice to see footage of the actual Davy Crockett. A mad weapon, but hey they were mad times! Thanks very much to Stick for putting all these up - absolutely fascinating!
We need to test this atomic rifle at our Nevada Test Site and we're going to have a whole bunch of people there. When do you think we should schedule this thing?
Well the average temperature there is 106 in July so let's have it then!
I'll l bring lots of brooms to comply with standard decontamination procedures.
Cool...and maybe some baby oil for protection from the sun.
Good idea. Oh.... don't forget cigarettes it's probably going to be a long day.
Swell. Looks like we've thought of everything. See you then!
'You, get out of here, you're in a restricted area!'
'Cool it, man! The cats bet me I wouldn't have nerve enough to sneak past the guards!'
So ah what did they do with the brooms? Bury them or -more- likely use them to sweep the barracks and mess hall?
This is particularly interesting because the W54 in this video only had a blast yield of 0.02 Kilotons of TNT, which is about the same as the FOAB, which is the strongest conventional bomb in recent history.
but dave crockett was much lighter. it would be very good to use many of them against north korea or farc.
Thank you for putting this here!
Addendum - This was a part of Operation Sunbeam under Project Little Feller I, which has the distinction of being the last atmospheric test by the US before the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1963.
it's a neutron bomb or enhanced radiation weapon. meant for incapacitating troops so our army can move in and take over with minimal damage to the landscape
OK. let me get this straight. The effective range of the light three man Davey Crockett is roughly 1900 meters. The fallout zone in this video, with optimal winds, is 1700 meters with a rather unexpected hot spot at roughly 1500-1600 meters.
Given Davey Crockett died at the Alamo I guess they chose the correct name...
Fair Dinkum this video was comical, the narrator had me in stitches.
A high altitude low yield weapon would emit significant E.M.P. Enough to cripple most electronics over a broad area, especially the computers that are so prevalent on the modern battlefield.
the outright mentioning of the deadly initial nuclear radiation puts alot of things in perspective for me i always wondered if the flash was deadly and now i know why the Davy Crockett warhead wasnt good apples.
lol 16:08 ....standard decontamination proceedures... straw brooms brushing off vehicles and people....wtf
and everybody is breathing the contaminated air and dust without masks!
90 %of those soldiers all die of some kind of cancer, mainly lung since Loke the comment above, sweeping and dust off dust inhaled,damm,
Gotta love volunteers tho
@Nigel Cam Brushing it off... and then with no masks, immediately breathing in the now-airborne and still very energetic/poisonous radioactive particles.
@reverse thrust Brilliant response. We'll all listen to you. 🙄
In the interest of national security, I will now terminate the cameraman.
BANG!
Thanks a lot, Steve!
Peace, through superior firepower... :)
You know, a lot of people keep saying that the main problem with this weapon was that it didn't have enough range to place the people who fired it outside its "blast zone" which could've ended up radiating the people who fired it. But in this vide, starting with minute 9:38 it clearly explains that the radiation effects wouldn't have been anywhere near as dangerous as the anti-Pentomic division propaganda states. This weapon could fire at over 2.5 km and up to almost 5 km. There was no way radiation would have affected the people who fired it who were sitting far further back anyway since the weapon was remotely fired.
In the '50s, this was entertainment for the whole family
wow american used Metric system in this video
*****
US military uses metric system for maps/distance as it is a NATO standard.
16:06 .. standard ... decontamination ... done with kitchen brooms ... un-fucking believable
Where is Vault Boy?
That's were the "Fallout 3" game got the idea for the M42 "Fat Man" launcher?
"Impedimenta?" That's a new one...
"It detinated perfectly, releasing its lethal radiation" OH YEAH, HOW GREAT. FTW
Ever hear of a neutron bomb? Tanks are largely impervious to nuclear weapons, but the radiation will kill the crew inside. Some steel alloys, especially those used by the Soviets, will become lethally radioactive after being exposed to radiation. The tank would kill its own crew! So, yeah. Radiation FTW!
Lulz at everyone harping about the brooms. Lets say you are in a desert, during a nuclear war, covered with radioactive dust and somehow managed to get out with your life intact, whats your next move? Well... first you get a broom and start brushing the dust off. No brainer if there ever was one. If you could change your clothes and have a nice shower that would certainly be preferable, but in absence of such luxuries a broom will do.
Seriously, the scenario is of a nuclear war, a chance of getting cancer before you die of old age is pretty low on priorities. Surviving long enough to even have cause to worry about such things is a bit more imminent problem.
These appear in "Superior Saturday" by Garth Nix. But he calls them micronukes.
I think it should be mentioned that the Davy Crockett was soon deemed useless because of the proximity to radiation lethality. This, along with the Tsar Bomba, was a weapon without a future.
(part 2) Only the Manhattan project had the wherewithal to do that. Therefore, the only design was the US design; Beria required his staff to create their first bomb to be an exact copy of the Fat Man.
The hydrogen bomb, OTOH, was an original design by the Russians Kurchatov and Sakharov. They spent a long time trying to figure out how the US had done it, but eventually reproduced the work of Teller-Ulam. Germany did very little beyond a design for a dirty bomb.
1.4KM, about, I would say. Way beyond safe distances.
Broom- the most effective device with which to remove radiation contamination...why are they not using those at fukushima?
@digitalobserver That is untrue, the weapon can not be set to fuse at only 20m. The W54 is an enhanced radiation area-denial weapon intended for use against invading Soviet armor. The thought wasn't that the Soviets would charge into it and die, but they'd have to wait until the radiation cleared, at which point American reinforcements would have arrived. Keep in mind at the time the Red Army had superior armor and would have won any conventional conflict.
Why does it look like an ordinary detonation of ordinary explosives?
Well it was too small to make a full-blown mushroom cloud.
The point of the mini-nuke wasnt so that cities were ground zeroed, it was made so that it could take out large enemy reinforcement or assault routes and make then unuseable for short periods of time; they were made smaller so that it wouldnt harm the soldiers fireing, while still taking out large portions of enemy supplies and men.
More radiation less destruction.
Did it? Certainly looked like a nuke to me, a very small one, true, but still a nuke. Pity they didn't show the simulation rounds exploding properly, that would have made the difference clearer.
Visually, there is very little difference between a nuclear blast and a regular one. The scale obviously, but suppose you compared a very large conventional blast with very small nuke, yield being equal, how would you tell the difference? The flash obviously, at the moment of detonation the intensity and temperature of light given off is like nothing else, no chemical explosive will ever compare. The sun doesn't compare, lighting and electrical arcs don't compare, no light you have ever seen compares to a nuclear explosion. On a strip of film it's just an completely exposed frame tho, possibly with a hole burned through.
So true.
Standard decontamination.........those are brooms.
"Here... Just put these dosimeter badges on, boys... We wanna see how much you get zapped with today..."
The patch on top left screen in the beginning of the movie (the one with the mushroom cloud) is bitchin....I would love to have one.
remember the Alamo!
Wow. To think that this was considered appropriate - ever.
They sure had some balls back then using nuclear rounds in artillery. One slip up of that small Davy Crockett and everyone there is toast.
@tpsossff
Small?
Its equal to roughly 20 tonnes of TNT...
It lethaly irradiates a 350 meter circle...
This wasn't designed as a direct attack weapon, it was designed to be used as a area denial weapon. It was seposed to be used if the Soviets attack via East Germany, these would be set up along the border and fired to stall the Soviets until a proper defense could be mounted aperantly...
Wow, I never knew it a nuke could be so small and lauchable, where can I get one in hand grenade size?
It was small, but from everything I have read, it was a very dirty little bomb. I wonder how many of the GI's there are still around?
Turning external contamination into internal contamination. Big fail.
I saw that weapon system in fort lee in a armory
@AsaZolle
Are you a member of the conspiracy cafe?
I got a link to this video from there, that's where I heard about micro nukes possibly being used on 9/11
war .....war never changes
NS was here...
I just realized that I have also a broom in my closet, so I'm save from nuclear contamination! That's fine!
Film is like a comedy by 21C standards
Task force code name : Guinea Pig
getting down with that sickness
LOL @ "Prompt casualties" terminology
The beginning looks a little like one of those old WB cartoons, heh! O_o
Was the Davy Crockett used in Vietnam?
wow just wow dig trench fire weapon jump in trench blast radius will include firrer
the sperm swimming around were like "WHAT THE F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!"
Whatever happened to Sixth Army?
Start the cartoon!
Wait....they were so contaminated...
they're lucky they weren't sprayed down with irradiated sea water
lol they think sweeping it off with a broom does something??
Must...hold back...urge...to make...Fallout 3...reference...
Who is here in 2022 ?
oh boy!!!! radiation and a fresh cooked meal! where do i sign up!!!!
wonder how long each of them, lived?
That "hypothetical" BS was a nuclear device. Please pay attention next time.
They thought the radiation went for 2 miles bout went for three
Test sight in yucca flats nevada
16:25 Nobody wears a gas mask during the decontamination procedure.
Donde las probaron
remember the alamo!
Decontamination with a straw broom?
The intro is like looney tunes,but the contents not so much.
Shit, they are on Mars. lol, get it?
Major Zero.. is that you?
Forgiveness is divine;But Kids like War, And old people need, But don't LIKE Kids,when do we get a bigger weapon? likew a weapon that can destroy the whole planetary system?
Funny how nowadays, a single call for CAS can do more effective damage without the need for nukes.
1.7 miles was the range. These were made to kill soviet troops invading Europe.
Are you a redditor by any chance? Because you could make one hell of an AMA.
Yes, those were the days when the soldiers did the dying. Since the US government discovered Chinese credit lines, however ...
@Motoguzzi750 Indeed mad times; all this testing etc was purely because the scientists and military loved playing with bombs, so here was a way of playing with bombs without directly killing people xD Seeing the Davy Crockett, the phrase "hoist on ones own petard" is very appropriate;)
16:54 JFK. (Was he also brushed down with a broom?)
16:57 is JFK also
decontamination with a brush...
Love it. How about the US redeploys it
Insane weapon. The crew is to close to the blast.
I was being silly. I am white. And you are one strange cookie.
One more reason the Pentagon wacked RFK and JFK.
I would have sent soldiers by bycicle instead of using buses, so it could have been saved lots of money in fuel
Creepy as fuck!
LOL oh man right?
punctuation!
A tedious piece of military cinema indeed, just like officer Collins' slide show report to the top brass in the movie 'Idiocracy'. There is a clip of it on 'Foxhomeent's channel' on youtube.
Ockert Wessels ✈✈✈
Boys and young men today seldom join the Armed Forces. Back in the 50's and 60's most guys went into the Service. By now the Army has turned into a sort of 'boy's club' rather than a National Duty. I'm glad my 3 grandsons will only go in the military if they choose to but I wonder if the Country wouldn't be better off if most boys did a couple of years in the Service. Like this middle east thing that's been going on for the last 14 years, most families have no stake in the game and can even ignore it if they choose. The USA has lost something in my 57 years. No sense of civic duty started in the 70's with the "Me Generation" and has gone downhill since. Compare the "kids" in videos like these to the same 18-22 year olds you see walking about in 2015. Something went wrong in America...
+randy109 Less false "duty" to an arbitrary government is always good, it sucks to see kids brainwashed into "patriotism", an absurd concept in the first place.
However, you actually make a very good point - if everyone was forced to be the government's slave, people wouldn't be able to ignore the ridiculous wars anymore and they'd have a personal reason to stop them. I don't think it's worth it, though.
lawl
Classic turtling lololol.