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A collective protection system makes the Arleigh Burke class the first U.S. warships designed with an air-filtration system against nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare (NBC). [30] Other NBC defenses include double air-locked hatches, pressurized compartments, and an external countermeasure washdown system. [31]
Discraft sponsors a disc golf team called Team Discraft. Nate Doss, a member of the team, was the 2005, 2007 and 2011 PDGA Mixed Open World Champion. [5] [6] Paul McBeth, a six-time PDGA Mixed Open World Champion, [7] joined Team Discraft beginning in 2019. On February 24, 2021, Discraft extended their contract with McBeth, worth $10 million ...
The M28 or M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was the first project assigned to the United States Army Weapon Command in Rock Island, Illinois. [3]
Capable of firing a 100 kiloton nuclear warhead a distance of 185 km American MGR-3 Little John missile, measuring 4.4. meters long with a diameter of 32 cm and a weight of 350 kg. Capable of firing a W45 warhead (10 kiloton yield) a distance of 19 km French Pluton missile circa 1970s. Capable of firing a 15 kiloton nuclear warhead a distance ...
According to an audit by the Brookings Institution, between 1940 and 1996, the US spent $11.3 trillion in present-day terms [6] on nuclear weapons programs. 57 percent of which was spent on building delivery mechanisms for nuclear weapons. 6.3 percent of the total, $709 billion in present-day terms, was spent on weapon nuclear waste management ...
The weapon is notable for being the smallest nuclear weapon in both weight and yield to have entered US service. It was a compact implosion device containing plutonium-239 as its fissile material, [ 1 ] and in its various versions and mods it had a yield of 10 to 1,000 tons of TNT (42 to 4,184 gigajoules ).
H-912 transport container for Mk-54 SADM. A suitcase nuclear device (also suitcase nuke, suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, and pocket nuke) is a tactical nuclear weapon that is portable enough that it could use a suitcase as its delivery method.
The Obiekt 279, or Object 279, (Объект 279) was a Soviet experimental heavy tank developed at the end of 1959.. This special purpose tank was intended to fight on cross country terrain, inaccessible to conventional tanks, acting as a heavy breakthrough tank.