Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #32

0800032 - U.S. Army Presents MF20 9811, Ivy Flats Film Report - 1962 - 17:35 - Black&White - Ivy Flats, a 1962 tactical military exercise at the Nevada Test Site, involved the detonation of live nuclear rounds fired from the Davy Crockett artillery piece. The Davy Crockett was developed to give U.S. Army units an effective nuclear capability against potentially larger units of Soviet armored forces.

The Davy Crockett, a recoilless launcher, was the third artillery piece deployed, those earlier being a l55 mm piece designed to fire a nuclear round and a 288 mm mobile piece, commonly called an "atomic cannon." Nuclear-capable ground artillery pieces were gradually replaced by increasingly accurate, nuclear carrying missiles and aircraft.

The Ivy Flats video shows an Army exercise that was observed by visiting dignitaries, including U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and General Maxwell Taylor, a Presidential military adviser. Participating in the exercise were members of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division from Ft. Lewis, Washington.

Ivy Flats was a "battle" between a large simulated enemy armored force and a smaller U.S. force consisting of conventional artillery pieces, which could not stop the pending onslaught. U.S. Army squads then arrive in armored personnel carriers and set up the heavy (l55 mm) and light (120 mm) versions of recoilless launchers. The Davy Crockett fired a nuclear round that decimated the mock opposing force.

The Davy Crockett was deployed from 1961 to 1971. The heavy version was transported by either an armored personnel carrier or a large truck. The light version was generally carried on and fired from an Army jeep, but could be carried for a short distance and fired by a 3-man team.

The W-54 nuclear warhead in a projectile was launched by the Davy Crockett and had a subkiloton yield. The projectile was 30 inches long, 11 inches in diameter, and weighed 76 pounds. The l55 mm launcher had a maximum range of 13,000 feet, and the 120 mm could reach a distance of 6,561 feet.

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[ThreeCharlieKilo]

Must...hold back...urge...to make...Fallout 3...reference...

[sisterjoey23]

@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.

[AntiMusick]

Was the Davy Crockett used in Vietnam?

[MrSrgj]

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!

[orange70383]

@dirtyharree The illusion of freedom. But I guess that's good enough to satisfy the addle minded.

[hal357]

I saw that weapon system in fort lee in a armory

[meecenator25]

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.

[RalphReagan]

1.7 miles was the range. These were made to kill soviet troops invading Europe.

[vkandaharv2]

LoL @ "Standard unit decontamination procedures" @ 16:00 Brooms!

[piliage]

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...

[Thenjonsayed]

lol they think sweeping it off with a broom does something??

[RequiemForChange]

"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...