Here, nukey, nukey! Where are you, nukey, nukey?

[Bill Nichols]

Originally Posted by geetrue

I wonder when and if they will ever find the other missing nuclear war heads that have already been accidently dropped. I remember one in Georgia off the coast or near an inlet ... a nuclear depth charge I do believe.

Accidents do happen ... glad this wasn't one of them.

Details here:

http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/accidents.htm

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Bill Nichols

Details here:

http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/accidents.htm

Amazing...read thru some of the accounts to about the 60's...amazing no actual huge nuclear detonations...will finish tonite...thank you for the link Bill.

Don't tell me there's no God after reading some of those accts.

[TLAM Strike]

...should have been removed from the plane. Instead, they were mounted on the bomber’s wings...
...CNN says the crew didn't know the weapons were on the bomber...

Ok I know the B-52 is big but for god's sake get up off your lazy @$$ and walk around the plane before taking off!! They do that on the little pointy nose planes. Its not like they were hidden in the bomb bay or anything they were hanging off the wings in plain view.

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Ok I know the B-52 is big but for god's sake get up off your lazy @$$ and walk around the plane before taking off!! They do that on the little pointy nose planes. Its not like they were hidden in the bomb bay or anything they were hanging off the wings in plain view.

Perhaps it was the new B-52 stealth bomber and they just didn't see them ...

[Deep6]

Originally Posted by geetrue

Perhaps it was the new B-52 stealth bomber and they just didn't see them ...

Flight of the Old Dog

[Heibges]

Originally Posted by geetrue

Perhaps it was the new B-52 stealth bomber and they just didn't see them ...

I'm sure the missles were supposed to be on the plane, just not with real warheads. The Air Force can't be that silly.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Heibges

I'm sure the missles were supposed to be on the plane, just not with real warheads. The Air Force can't be that silly.

:hmm:

Anyway, aren't there still quite a few ICBMs at the bottom in sunken Boomers? K-219 for example, or even 19. I don't think any other country (with the possible exception of Chinas suspected second Xia) has lost a Boomer other than the old USSR.

[Ishmael]

I don't know how the Air Farce runs their NUCWEPS programs, but this would never happen in the Navy. I won't go into the loading and storage procedures here but, suffice to say, any "Special" weapons would immediately be apparent. What is mystifying to me is that a weapons loadout check should be part of a preflight checklist and would show the type of weapons loaded and number in the weapons control console. That and any cursory examination of the weapons themselves that should have presumably been done as part of a visual inspection pre-flight should have raised a red flag as well. War shot ordnance is distinctly different from exercise weapons and are clearly marked with weapons type on the outside of the missle.

On another note, I remember reading in WMR a while back about the loss of two of the warheads from the Kazakh portion of the Soviet arsenal that were lost of the Somali coast in the early '90s. Those two were recovered by smugglers and allegedly sold to North Korea.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Heibges

I'm sure the missles were supposed to be on the plane, just not with real warheads. The Air Force can't be that silly.

I'm sure weapons armed with nuclear warheads are painted with a easly reconized color so everyone on the base knows what they are and not to drop them/sit on them/spill coffee on them/etc. In the Russian Navy nuclear torpedoes were painted purple I belive. I would be shocked if the USAF didn't paint the nose cones of their nuclear cruise missiles a color diffrent from other missiles of the same type.