@AntiMusick No, the Davy Crockett was not used in Vietnam. In 1963 I was the commander of the security platoon for the 4th Infantry Division Davy Crockett team, the one depicted in this film. I was reassigned to Europe for several years and rejoined the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1967-68. By that time the Davy Crockett was gone from the Division.
@MrSrgj Sorry to say but your wrong ,many early russian hydrogen bomb test came from captured Nazi German atomic bomb devolpement projects and infomation as well as scientist.
But we did the same with are manhattan project and many from late 1945 towards the early 50's.
but both side used german infomation as well the minds of many nottable german scientist.
The Davy Crockett Warhead was a legalized version of a Neutron Bomb. We couldn't go all out and say "We have a Neutron Bomb" so we slapped the term "Tactical" on it and there it is. Its ironic how RFK went to see how it worked. He was against nukes from the very beginning.
OK. let me get this straight. The effective range of the light three man Davey Crockett is roughly 1900 meters. The fallout zone in this video, with optimal winds, is 1700 meters with a rather unexpected hot spot at roughly 1500-1600 meters.
Given Davey Crockett died at the Alamo I guess they chose the correct name...
"thousands of men and women dedicated to advancing technology so you can be protected and live in freedom. nukes must never be used, but constructed as deterrent nevertheless."
lmao,it is horseshit, sad thing is, you dont know why its horseshit...dirtyharree.
very few people see and understand what the fuck is wrong with humans, the rest act like its normal sticks and stones, swords and arrows, thinking its for freedom, protection, from enemies thousands of miles away, blah bla BARF bullshit...
@MrXAVIERDB pray how is this horseshit? thousands of men and women dedicated to advancing technology so you can be protected and live in freedom. nukes must never be used, but constructed as deterrent nevertheless.
There was a Hollywood film based on this (or similar tests). The movie started off with the acceptable rads on the badge infantrymen wore being a low number and by the end of the movie the acceptable rads had been quadrupled. I think it was a reporters point of view. I cannot remember the name of this movie. Anyone know what it was called?
the outright mentioning of the deadly initial nuclear radiation puts alot of things in perspective for me i always wondered if the flash was deadly and now i know why the Davy Crockett warhead wasnt good apples.
god,i hate the military.When i think about how they`ve contaminated good land and whole countries with their weapons testing and deployment,it makes me sick.All those cancer cases in nevada and new mexico.And the military is still fucking up our environment today with their weapons bullshit.What a waste of taxpayers money,testing and developing technology to kill and destroy.What a civilization we would have if we spent half that money on peaceful and constructive pursuits
@IwontConform You mean constructive pursuits like heart pacemakers, nylon, supersonic flight, GPS, duct tape, mass produced antibiotics, and the internet?
Those were all pioneered by the military you hate so much.
Perhaps a look at @HooshIsASoup 's post might enlighten you.
The U.S. Armed Forces/DOD, or heavily governmentally funded companies are often the ones that make the breakthroughs in reasearch, for both peaceful and warlike means. Intel, Boeing, etc... All have very close ties with the DOD, yet make a ton of peaceful stuff. You cannot separate the two.
War is human nature. Without war, we are not human.
War can also be horrible. Humans can also be horrible.
@digitalobserver That is untrue, the weapon can not be set to fuse at only 20m. The W54 is an enhanced radiation area-denial weapon intended for use against invading Soviet armor. The thought wasn't that the Soviets would charge into it and die, but they'd have to wait until the radiation cleared, at which point American reinforcements would have arrived. Keep in mind at the time the Red Army had superior armor and would have won any conventional conflict.
the Davy Crockett was deemed stratigicly and for safety precautions utterly useless and therefore was said to be only minor, anything bigger than that initial recoiless rocket was also deemed highly dangerous for the range it had was more hazardous to the fire'ee than it was for the enemy
Addendum - This was a part of Operation Sunbeam under Project Little Feller I, which has the distinction of being the last atmospheric test by the US before the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1963.
It seems they saved at least 2 of these micro nukes. 1 for WTC1 and the other for WTC2. There's just too much credible evidence in the public domain now that proves it. Every bit of rubble had been exposed to low levels of radiation. Just like from one of these micro nukes. The rad zones match roughly how far people would moved away before the "collapse" too.
Only in military thinking could something like this be thought up. Let's toss them a mini-firecracker size nuke, because "they" would never think to use one or a bigger one against us. I just love the old WWI-WWII trench simulation. The odds of this type of fighting are like what, 0.1%.
Is this government thinking at it's best, worst, or just being stupid? You be the judge.
I was in a deployed Davy Crockett platoon. It was clearly explained how hazardous the duty was. Every man was a volunteer. Most critics think it was dangerous because of radioactive fallout if wind blew toward the launcher--it was really the possibility of counterfire from opposing artillery, since the DC put up an impressive plume of blowback dust when it fired. We trained to boogie out after the shot.
Thanks Uncle Sam for all the cesium and strontium 90 distributed around the world during all the atmospheric testing of the cold war now we are all lab rats. And to think we are worried about global warming. We will off ourselves in the next two or three generations just out of pure ignorance alone. With the retirement of the boomers. Now the nintendo generation is up next to take the helm followed by playstation, wii, etc.. We are all doomed....PEACE
@djixtapu you not a lab rat, also you have nothing to worry about. if anything you will die of starvation, but only because you dont grow food. you think money is your food.
This wasn't designed as a direct attack weapon, it was designed to be used as a area denial weapon. It was seposed to be used if the Soviets attack via East Germany, these would be set up along the border and fired to stall the Soviets until a proper defense could be mounted aperantly...
i love the old nuclear protocal vids where the tell you to hid under a desk at school, get under your car or jump in a ditch if you see a nuke go off XD
LOL, yeah, the 1000s of gallons of jet fuel wasn't a big enough explosion...You 9/11 "truthers" make the "we never landed on the moon" people look sane and rational.
@sisterjoey23 First it's thermite, the worst possible method to bring down a building, and then it's a mini-nuke now. Geez, what a bunch of nut cases. My favorite claim is "fire doesn't melt steel" and I can't help but laugh my ass off. No, fire weakens steel. The hotter the weaker. Any firefighter will tell you that ordinary fire weakens steel, especially steel trusses, which the floors were made out of. The phrase is "never trust a truss" in a fire.
Diese Amisschweine sind komplett jenseits aller menschlichen Vernunft angelangt. Nur eine Möglichkeit. Die Verantwortlichen Befehlshaber entweder eleminieren oder sicher dauerhaft wegsperren, ansonsten ist das Experiment Menschheit komplett gescheitert.
As someone said nice to see footage of the actual Davy Crockett. A mad weapon, but hey they were mad times! Thanks very much to Stick for putting all these up - absolutely fascinating!
@Motoguzzi750 Indeed mad times; all this testing etc was purely because the scientists and military loved playing with bombs, so here was a way of playing with bombs without directly killing people xD Seeing the Davy Crockett, the phrase "hoist on ones own petard" is very appropriate;)
26 mins prior good god well lives lost in a test the radiation stays there for atleast 48 hours jesus christ fucking suicidal country ahh who cares nuclear weapons will once save are lives
I know people get a kick out of the broom but the threat of fallout is essentially just radioactive dust. A good sweep with a broom is not a bad way of dealing with this. I'm actually rather impressed with the thought that went into this exercise, given the technology of 1962.
hitler did have acsess to nuclear weapons but the royal marines stopped him from devolping it by destroying the equipment. It was with the photos of the equipment nuclear weapons were devolped by english and american scientists. The test bombs were dropped on japan they just had to test them somewhere
America, You are so sick for inventing this shit, and not in a good way, It is basically you're fault countries like Iran and parts of Korea are now a threat, We all now live in danger of dying of a nuculear bomb, I don't want to die like that and I'm sure none of you do.
germans sucessfully tested a neutron b-device in the north african desert during the war.thats why rommel really was sent there.AND all that ancient astronaut bullcrap) THE FUSED GREEN GLASS IN THE DESERT) was from these tests.
It's good to see the actual test of this. There are cases where footage of other nuclear explosions is used instead of the footage of the actual Davy Crockett test explosion. It may be for dramatic effect, but it is misleading since those tests are of multi-kiloton bombs, not of the 18 ton yield from this test, and thus look quite different.
In the '50s, this was entertainment for the whole family
GabDaPro 1 month ago
Was the Davy Crockett used in Vietnam?
AntiMusick 1 month ago
@AntiMusick No, the Davy Crockett was not used in Vietnam. In 1963 I was the commander of the security platoon for the 4th Infantry Division Davy Crockett team, the one depicted in this film. I was reassigned to Europe for several years and rejoined the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1967-68. By that time the Davy Crockett was gone from the Division.
frebo3 1 month ago
Americans have experienced nuclear weapons first, because were helped by German scientists.
Russian have done nuclear weapons 3 years later, independently, without somebody's help.
Soviet Russia rock!
MrSrgj 1 month ago
@MrSrgj Sorry to say but your wrong ,many early russian hydrogen bomb test came from captured Nazi German atomic bomb devolpement projects and infomation as well as scientist.
But we did the same with are manhattan project and many from late 1945 towards the early 50's.
but both side used german infomation as well the minds of many nottable german scientist.
DukeofSahara 1 month ago
I saw that weapon system in fort lee in a armory
hal357 2 months ago
The Davy Crockett Warhead was a legalized version of a Neutron Bomb. We couldn't go all out and say "We have a Neutron Bomb" so we slapped the term "Tactical" on it and there it is. Its ironic how RFK went to see how it worked. He was against nukes from the very beginning.
meecenator25 4 months ago
1.7 miles was the range. These were made to kill soviet troops invading Europe.
RalphReagan 4 months ago
LoL @ "Standard unit decontamination procedures" @ 16:00 Brooms!
vkandaharv2 5 months ago
OK. let me get this straight. The effective range of the light three man Davey Crockett is roughly 1900 meters. The fallout zone in this video, with optimal winds, is 1700 meters with a rather unexpected hot spot at roughly 1500-1600 meters.
Given Davey Crockett died at the Alamo I guess they chose the correct name...
piliage 6 months ago
lol they think sweeping it off with a broom does something??
Thenjonsayed 6 months ago
"thousands of men and women dedicated to advancing technology so you can be protected and live in freedom. nukes must never be used, but constructed as deterrent nevertheless."
lmao,it is horseshit, sad thing is, you dont know why its horseshit...dirtyharree.
very few people see and understand what the fuck is wrong with humans, the rest act like its normal sticks and stones, swords and arrows, thinking its for freedom, protection, from enemies thousands of miles away, blah bla BARF bullshit...
RequiemForChange 7 months ago
@MrXAVIERDB pray how is this horseshit? thousands of men and women dedicated to advancing technology so you can be protected and live in freedom. nukes must never be used, but constructed as deterrent nevertheless.
dirtyharree 7 months ago
@dirtyharree The illusion of freedom. But I guess that's good enough to satisfy the addle minded.
orange70383 2 months ago
There was a Hollywood film based on this (or similar tests). The movie started off with the acceptable rads on the badge infantrymen wore being a low number and by the end of the movie the acceptable rads had been quadrupled. I think it was a reporters point of view. I cannot remember the name of this movie. Anyone know what it was called?
jjensen67 7 months ago
Love it. How about the US redeploys it
1stLtDavis 10 months ago
Insane weapon. The crew is to close to the blast.
jazzruff 10 months ago
basically skip to 9:00 mark
SlayingRager 11 months ago
"Impedimenta?" That's a new one...
geonerd 11 months ago
Aww no gas masks.
Suojeluninja 11 months ago
You clever little devil!
boosted28 1 year ago
the outright mentioning of the deadly initial nuclear radiation puts alot of things in perspective for me i always wondered if the flash was deadly and now i know why the Davy Crockett warhead wasnt good apples.
HellVomit09 1 year ago 2
16:05 Note to self: In case of nuclear war keep broom handy.
aardvark9100 1 year ago 4
Must...hold back...urge...to make...Fallout 3...reference...
ThreeCharlieKilo 1 year ago 9
god,i hate the military.When i think about how they`ve contaminated good land and whole countries with their weapons testing and deployment,it makes me sick.All those cancer cases in nevada and new mexico.And the military is still fucking up our environment today with their weapons bullshit.What a waste of taxpayers money,testing and developing technology to kill and destroy.What a civilization we would have if we spent half that money on peaceful and constructive pursuits
IwontConform 1 year ago
@IwontConform You mean constructive pursuits like heart pacemakers, nylon, supersonic flight, GPS, duct tape, mass produced antibiotics, and the internet?
Those were all pioneered by the military you hate so much.
HooshIsASoup 1 year ago 2
@IwontConform
Perhaps a look at @HooshIsASoup 's post might enlighten you.
The U.S. Armed Forces/DOD, or heavily governmentally funded companies are often the ones that make the breakthroughs in reasearch, for both peaceful and warlike means. Intel, Boeing, etc... All have very close ties with the DOD, yet make a ton of peaceful stuff. You cannot separate the two.
War is human nature. Without war, we are not human.
War can also be horrible. Humans can also be horrible.
JmanRomania 1 year ago
@digitalobserver That is untrue, the weapon can not be set to fuse at only 20m. The W54 is an enhanced radiation area-denial weapon intended for use against invading Soviet armor. The thought wasn't that the Soviets would charge into it and die, but they'd have to wait until the radiation cleared, at which point American reinforcements would have arrived. Keep in mind at the time the Red Army had superior armor and would have won any conventional conflict.
lollazers 1 year ago 2
the Davy Crockett was deemed stratigicly and for safety precautions utterly useless and therefore was said to be only minor, anything bigger than that initial recoiless rocket was also deemed highly dangerous for the range it had was more hazardous to the fire'ee than it was for the enemy
MrSyntheticDesign 1 year ago
The beginning looks a little like one of those old WB cartoons, heh! O_o
YuppiBum 1 year ago
@AsaZolle
Are you a member of the conspiracy cafe?
I got a link to this video from there, that's where I heard about micro nukes possibly being used on 9/11
koomzyboi 1 year ago
Classic turtling lololol.
Uaxis 1 year ago
16:54 JFK. (Was he also brushed down with a broom?)
WarzSchoolchild 1 year ago
now it lies in a bunker somewhere in Alaska with dust on it and shit...
vadyrasty 1 year ago
Does anyone else get the chills from watching this
amigodemoose 1 year ago
wonder how long each of them, lived?
yekralleahcim 1 year ago
1962 was a good year for blowing shit up
atarian345 1 year ago 4
Addendum - This was a part of Operation Sunbeam under Project Little Feller I, which has the distinction of being the last atmospheric test by the US before the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1963.
observer127 1 year ago
decontamination with a brush...
gofman69 1 year ago
Logos at 0:10 ??? 2 stars of David?
SONGSBYMAX 1 year ago
It seems they saved at least 2 of these micro nukes. 1 for WTC1 and the other for WTC2. There's just too much credible evidence in the public domain now that proves it. Every bit of rubble had been exposed to low levels of radiation. Just like from one of these micro nukes. The rad zones match roughly how far people would moved away before the "collapse" too.
AsaZolle 1 year ago
Only in military thinking could something like this be thought up. Let's toss them a mini-firecracker size nuke, because "they" would never think to use one or a bigger one against us. I just love the old WWI-WWII trench simulation. The odds of this type of fighting are like what, 0.1%.
Is this government thinking at it's best, worst, or just being stupid? You be the judge.
aclsalrfp 1 year ago
I would have sent soldiers by bycicle instead of using buses, so it could have been saved lots of money in fuel
anisocoro 1 year ago
I was in a deployed Davy Crockett platoon. It was clearly explained how hazardous the duty was. Every man was a volunteer. Most critics think it was dangerous because of radioactive fallout if wind blew toward the launcher--it was really the possibility of counterfire from opposing artillery, since the DC put up an impressive plume of blowback dust when it fired. We trained to boogie out after the shot.
TheAdvaitin 1 year ago
NS was here...
podjo2k 1 year ago
This never would of worked, what a waste of taxpayer money. The risk of this device falling into enemy hands was way to great.
basicliving4u 1 year ago
Thanks Uncle Sam for all the cesium and strontium 90 distributed around the world during all the atmospheric testing of the cold war now we are all lab rats. And to think we are worried about global warming. We will off ourselves in the next two or three generations just out of pure ignorance alone. With the retirement of the boomers. Now the nintendo generation is up next to take the helm followed by playstation, wii, etc.. We are all doomed....PEACE
djixtapu 1 year ago
@djixtapu you not a lab rat, also you have nothing to worry about. if anything you will die of starvation, but only because you dont grow food. you think money is your food.
datzfast 1 year ago
All the VIPs sat in the open to get maximum gamma ray dosage.
This nuke was so small as to be miltarily useless. A fully loaded B52 can drop enough conventional ordnance to flatten two square miles.
How many soldiers did they sacrifice testing this crap?
tpsossff 1 year ago
@tpsossff
Small?
Its equal to roughly 20 tonnes of TNT...
It lethaly irradiates a 350 meter circle...
This wasn't designed as a direct attack weapon, it was designed to be used as a area denial weapon. It was seposed to be used if the Soviets attack via East Germany, these would be set up along the border and fired to stall the Soviets until a proper defense could be mounted aperantly...
ChaplainDMK 1 year ago 2
the sperm swimming around were like "WHAT THE F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!"
sapperzulu 1 year ago
i love the old nuclear protocal vids where the tell you to hid under a desk at school, get under your car or jump in a ditch if you see a nuke go off XD
ihelk 1 year ago 2
'You, get out of here, you're in a restricted area!'
'Cool it, man! The cats bet me I wouldn't have nerve enough to sneak past the guards!'
catfacecathead 2 years ago
@mothersbow333
LOL, yeah, the 1000s of gallons of jet fuel wasn't a big enough explosion...You 9/11 "truthers" make the "we never landed on the moon" people look sane and rational.
sisterjoey23 2 years ago 6
@sisterjoey23 Bravo!!! Very well said.
PopppaBlue59 1 year ago
@sisterjoey23 First it's thermite, the worst possible method to bring down a building, and then it's a mini-nuke now. Geez, what a bunch of nut cases. My favorite claim is "fire doesn't melt steel" and I can't help but laugh my ass off. No, fire weakens steel. The hotter the weaker. Any firefighter will tell you that ordinary fire weakens steel, especially steel trusses, which the floors were made out of. The phrase is "never trust a truss" in a fire.
Well "said" Sisterjoey23
richcsst 1 year ago
Becouse america is so good in covering up goverment secrets. They have alot more hidden then we could possibly know.
psycoclownagent 2 years ago 2
16:57 is JFK also
pricefamily717294 2 years ago
That is Robert Kennedy, not John F.
Ganiscol 2 years ago
The patch on top left screen in the beginning of the movie (the one with the mushroom cloud) is bitchin....I would love to have one.
konman001 2 years ago
you brits have and tested nukes you pussy!
MaryStewart 2 years ago
One more reason the Pentagon wacked RFK and JFK.
operationnorthwoodz 2 years ago
Diese Amisschweine sind komplett jenseits aller menschlichen Vernunft angelangt. Nur eine Möglichkeit. Die Verantwortlichen Befehlshaber entweder eleminieren oder sicher dauerhaft wegsperren, ansonsten ist das Experiment Menschheit komplett gescheitert.
JoCa555 2 years ago
Wow, I never knew it a nuke could be so small and lauchable, where can I get one in hand grenade size?
WDeet 2 years ago
As someone said nice to see footage of the actual Davy Crockett. A mad weapon, but hey they were mad times! Thanks very much to Stick for putting all these up - absolutely fascinating!
Motoguzzi750 2 years ago 17
@Motoguzzi750 Indeed mad times; all this testing etc was purely because the scientists and military loved playing with bombs, so here was a way of playing with bombs without directly killing people xD Seeing the Davy Crockett, the phrase "hoist on ones own petard" is very appropriate;)
ralucagymnast 10 months ago
26 mins prior good god well lives lost in a test the radiation stays there for atleast 48 hours jesus christ fucking suicidal country ahh who cares nuclear weapons will once save are lives
ohyes247 2 years ago
punctuation!
Aussiemoo 2 years ago
na seid ihr stolz drauf ihr hurensöhne ????
NejaziZeciri 2 years ago
Shit, they are on Mars. lol, get it?
xwarxsabrewulf 2 years ago
I know people get a kick out of the broom but the threat of fallout is essentially just radioactive dust. A good sweep with a broom is not a bad way of dealing with this. I'm actually rather impressed with the thought that went into this exercise, given the technology of 1962.
jhclouse 3 years ago 3
Exactly.....decom procedures are to get the dust OFF of you. Washing yourself off, brushing it off work...just get it away from you.
irishmanb1974 2 years ago
Decontamination with a straw broom?
jockthedog0 3 years ago
You'd be surprised...
mpwelk 2 years ago
LOL @ "Prompt casualties" terminology
TachyonDriver 3 years ago
1962 or 1952?
xav233 3 years ago
'62
youloser432 3 years ago
Such a ridiculous hypothetical reel of BS.
mpwelk 3 years ago
That "hypothetical" BS was a nuclear device. Please pay attention next time.
mzmadmike 2 years ago
hitler did have acsess to nuclear weapons but the royal marines stopped him from devolping it by destroying the equipment. It was with the photos of the equipment nuclear weapons were devolped by english and american scientists. The test bombs were dropped on japan they just had to test them somewhere
Luke666uk 3 years ago
I never see black people in these films - until they need troops near the blast zone, then I see a whole bunch!
luridplanet 3 years ago 4
lawl
ohyes247 2 years ago
do you think if America hadnt perfected nuclear bombs they would still be a "secret" in 2008 ?
spongymatter 3 years ago
America, You are so sick for inventing this shit, and not in a good way, It is basically you're fault countries like Iran and parts of Korea are now a threat, We all now live in danger of dying of a nuculear bomb, I don't want to die like that and I'm sure none of you do.
ilovecake213 3 years ago
ilovecake213:
Hey dumbass, if we hadn't invented it, then the Third Reich would have. Imagine the world we'd live in today if Hitler had access to nuclear weapons.
djtrixen 3 years ago 8
LOL oh man right?
KiloByte69 1 year ago
So true.
KiloByte69 1 year ago
@djtrixen
atleast hitler could make economy stand up to full strenght from ashes
but yeah , his nazzie ways were bad and its good that he lost
such a waste of good leader :<
purikov 1 year ago
it wasent our idea, the bomb, it was germany's, but we finished it
Xankar1 3 years ago 2
Germans were a couple months away from testing their own device when the Brits stopped them. That, and alot of their scientists defected.
irishmanb1974 2 years ago
germans sucessfully tested a neutron b-device in the north african desert during the war.thats why rommel really was sent there.AND all that ancient astronaut bullcrap) THE FUSED GREEN GLASS IN THE DESERT) was from these tests.
source book-pentagon aliens
johnnykatt2009 2 years ago
@irishmanb1974 no way were they a couple of months away, they may have been close but they surely can't have been that close...
tomazco 2 years ago
These appear in "Superior Saturday" by Garth Nix. But he calls them micronukes.
Ryuinfinity 3 years ago
In the interest of national security, I will now terminate the cameraman.
BANG!
Thanks a lot, Steve!
belexes2113 3 years ago 2
test site = area 51
mburch1974 4 years ago
OK is there a good site for photos or pictures of Nuclear distruction DURING the explosion?? I can't find any.
FilmPA 4 years ago
yup. a broom should do the trick
Doddsy 4 years ago 2
It's good to see the actual test of this. There are cases where footage of other nuclear explosions is used instead of the footage of the actual Davy Crockett test explosion. It may be for dramatic effect, but it is misleading since those tests are of multi-kiloton bombs, not of the 18 ton yield from this test, and thus look quite different.
double0twinky 4 years ago