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[QUOTE="longtime, post: 166875, member: 16513"] Woodsrider: the fact that the experts have personally demonstrated to you that they are not exactly sure of the safe-distances from certain Nukes tells me that many years ago, I was right . . . . We were practicing nuke attack profiles on certain troublesome countries. (The F-18 is (was) a single crew aircraft, so you can imagine there's a [i]lot[/i] for the pilot to do to aviate, navigate, communicate, arm, double check, authorize, etc, when it comes to a nuke delivery). Well on this particular day we were working on our nuke delivery profile. You didn't exactly want to drop this bomb the way you'd drop a normal bomb. And close counts with a-bombs (just like horse shoes and hand grenades). So we developed profiles allowing us to deliver the bombs. Ends up if you're going <self edit> . . . Well the profile, obviously, then included a light-your-hair-on-fire-and-get-the-hell-out-of-Dodge-egress. I remember after briefing, and studying these profiles, mission requirements, etc., asking one of our last flight leaders how fast the blast would spread. Two things concerned me. First, the EMP. Second, the heat. (The Hornet was lovingly referred to as the "Epoxy Rocket.") In sum, we weren't too sure that we could ride out a blast like that, should we fail to outrun it. If it was a one way mission, fine, but just tell us, okay? Well the poor Major (Navy and Marine aviators train together) just said "Oh, with your head start, you'll be fine." "Well exactly how fast is the blast?" "Oh you'll be fine." "Well can we do the math, compare the distance we originally lob the bomb, our speed of egress, and the blast speed, to come up with how far from the epicenter we'll be? And what we can expect?" "Oh, we don't have to worry about that, the experts did all that figurin', and we'll be fine." Nod nod, wink wink. We all considered it a 50/50 proposition after that. Not that it was a problem, but it was nice to know. [/QUOTE]
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