Operation Smash Hit - Testing Nuclear Flasks

[TheStevewhelan]

I was given a copy of the video of this test when I was working for the London Electricity Board way back when and I still have it. A shame to waste a class 46 but did rather prove the point in a "real world" situation

[Trek001]

@TheStevewhelan the 46 was due to be scrapped. They decided to send it out with style rather then to simply just scrap it.

[matelot95]

46009 to be exact

[SpizyChicken]

Operation Propaganda BS.

[blkvicePU]

@SpizyChicken propaganda? are you retarded.....

[MontytheHorse]

@SpizyChicken Yeah, cause sending a train at near 100mph into a nuclear flask is one of those things that can easily be faked.

[defprun]

8:30 was awesome...made my old Tandy look like a supercomputer.

[newforestroadwarrior]

@defprun Pretty certain it's a 19" rack mountable IBM PC. A very expensive system at the time.

[mihnelis]

FECKING AWESOME!!!

[ex48bw]

Sorry I'm mistaken-'twere a Class 46, dipwad

[Yvo25]

What's that music on 00:33 ?

Great vid!

[folkestoneflyer2]

probably royalty free music. Unlikely to be something you can pick up off iTunes!

[40rever]

i wanna see the same experiment with the new bulite trains 300mph

[class313]

surly you mean 90mph ;)

[Hyperen]

It's not a three locomotive train

[ex48bw]

Of course not: it's a locomotive-Class 44 I think it was-and three coaches

[danlefou]

Class 46, actually.

[joeferrito]

yeah, are they idiotic? If you're gonna do a video, do some &^%$ research first!

[iMGooDLiKe]

bommmm