Swordfish, Sailor Hat (Conventional Test), ASROC, SUBROC

[krhonhos]

¿para que diablos necesitas un torpedo nuclear para destruir un submarino?

[sprengmeister00]

der torpedo hat ja einen atomsprengkopf.

[NielsShoe]

Normal explosions can make an EMP theirs a video on here of the BBC in Afghanistan and a 1000LB bomb shuts off their cameras with the EMP.

[dunbustin]

What are those streaks that appear at 0:14?

I think they are there before the explosion.

[kAISER9701]

@dunbustin They are smoke rockets used to measure shock waves. They use the comparison of pre- and peri-detonation film sequences to calculate blast effects.

[olivethem]

Hey, ancjr, where did you get this footage, if you don't mind me asking? Is it in the public domain?

[Nuker1337]

I'm also very interested in this. I have not seen this on archive[dot]org which is pretty much the only source I know for nuclear stock footage. ancjr, would you please reply to this matter. Any hints on where you got this from are appreciated.

[xstamdecay]

I m afraid the only reason you ve haven t seen this footage on any nuclear weapons testing releted vids is that this is not a nuclear devise detonated just a load of conventional highly explotive matterial equal to 500 tons of TNT... I ve been looking for that vid for quite some time, really fascinating sinse it was recorded from short distance, no fear of radiation contamination you see...

[Nuker1337]

yeah, but this was in the cold war era, nuclear blast damage scaling and so forth, would have expected to see some sort of a "commander's report" on this operation, as detonation 1.5 kilotons of high explosives (sailor hat was 3 individual detonations of 500 tons piles of TNT IIRC) is quite substantial.

[xstamdecay]

Plus you can check it on wiki there s a small article about this and see the related video: Sailorhat Super Blast 4 - 500 Tonnes (With Slow-Motions) quite more comprehensive! Take care nuker1337, i enjoyed some of your videos myself!

[MFCBastion]

They may be ordered via the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Library.

[natosuperman]

I'm glad we nuked Japan. It was the best thing that could have happen. It brought them out of the "stoneage". maybe we should do the same to Iran or North Korea or Berkeley California.

[t239]

My sentiments exactly.

[hootinouts]

I agree.

[zdbdc]

You Americans are fucking frightening

[BUNGLEJYME]

I don't disagree with you my friend.

Please don't judge all of us by the irresponsible actions of the corrupt US leadership and rich elitists. These ruthless bastards don't care about anybody; not even their own citizens.  I am but mere surf living in their kingdom of pride and arrogance. This county is in for a rude awakening and is going to be punished for it's sins.

[22reTOYOTA]

We were until clinton,and now obama. "To have peace,you must not have enemies". "If you have enemies,you must make them live in fear of you".TJV

[Dallasdeckard]

What a moron. This test was done to determine the effects of a nuclear blast, without the harmful effects of a nuclear detonation. The data gathered here makes our armed forces MUCH more ready to deal with such an event. Knowing what will happen means our forces are prepared for such an event, while others aren't. Not being prepared for something like this... now THAT is "frightening".

[myfurryhat]

Isn't this the bomb test on Kaho'olawe? If it is, they stopped like 40 years ago so y'all shut up. I am going there with my class to plant... plants. :D

[PhantomP63]

@myfurryhat Kahoolawe is just to the SW of Maui isn't it? They actually dropped a nuke that close to populated areas?

[PhantomP63]

@PhantomP63 Never mind, I see it was conventional.

[mindlobster]

Hum... for the record that was not an atomic weapon you saw.

[micr0cosm]

Try that again in English...proper English, you fucking puke!

[marmaloon]

Boo hoo Franky, fricking tests like this go on all the time, it ain't going to stop because you have a shitty in your pants, just a few days ago we did a test on the HMCS Huron fuck off.

[UniqueFrank]

wow what a buntch of mother fucker "Oh! Lets use Nuclear to destroid ship. Oh! lets use Nuclear to blow town. Oh! Lets use Nuclear to blow sub" damm i wich Usa dint win any war... that clean a lot of shit like that... but noo... now they tink the world belong to them.

[jayzee1980]

A goal easily misses, brandym1987. I am from Germany, and understand that our ancestors not the brightest on this planet was. Also our people is confronted each day with the past (Hitler, Wehrmacht). Welcomely in the club. Forgive my comment.

[IrishBarFight]

I'm surprised that that helicopter wasn't blown out of the sky by the EMP...and I wonder how well their electrical instruments fared, lol

[ancjr]

50 years ago, what few (compared to today) electronic circuits were present were built using electron tubes. Relatively speaking, they are almost impervious to EMP compared to transistors. Instrumentation and control systems were largely mechanical, not electronic, to begin with.

[mkarnerfors]

Surface detonations of nuclear weapons do not cause an EMP. The nuclear explosions you hear about that fries electronic equipment through an EMP happens only high up in the atmosphere. Look up "EMP" on Wikipedia.

[IrishBarFight]

@ancjr I stand corrected.

[puncheex]

@IrishBarFight: The explosion was a Sailorhat explosion, 500 tons of TNT.  No nuke here, so no EMP possible.

[1415w]

@IrishBarFight

That was 500 tons of TNT,. so not nuclear, and no electromagnetic pulse.

[Gui13lkdp]

@IrishBarFight Since that was convetional explosives, you don't get EMP...

[marmaloon]

'at the burst point' the warhead is turned into a bouquet of nice roses' Hee hee hee!

[jayzee1980]

nuclear warhead in torpedeo - shit idea. the us-americans are studip

[brandym1987]

Yeah this is like 50 years old. We are responsible enough to understand this is unacceptable. You can't blame the present population for our forefathers. Must be French.

[ke1lb]

Odd that the one calling us "stupid" can't even spell it......

The Russians had nuke torpedos also. The super powers played with the big toys while your country was still throwing stones.