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Octafish

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2. ''Dial-a-Yield''
Mon Aug 31, 2015, 09:14 AM
Aug 2015

Upgrade fits right on the trillion dollar F-35. Nice to know that money trumps peace really means welfare for the warmonger class.

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Target MosheFeingold Aug 2015 #1
''Dial-a-Yield'' Octafish Aug 2015 #2
Dial-a-Yield is from the 1980s. These bombs already had it. jeff47 Aug 2015 #15
Dial-a-Yield is even older then that Brother Buzz Aug 2015 #23
Here's what I'd like for home defense... Octafish Aug 2015 #28
The Davey Crocket MosheFeingold Aug 2015 #29
Less bang for the buck, as toxic as ever. Perfect companion weapon for the F-35. hunter Aug 2015 #17
American Fizzbin Octafish Aug 2015 #27
I've always though accuracy on a nuke seemed like a waste Travis_0004 Aug 2015 #3
It does if you are trying to hit a ventilation shaft to a mine n2doc Aug 2015 #5
America is the world's most compassionate manufacturer of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, for sure. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #21
for something like this, yes... Javaman Aug 2015 #26
Wonder if potential President Trump knows the keys to the WH include the keys to this baby..and many more? Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #4
I'm sure any one elected will be told of this 'wonderful' new weapon n2doc Aug 2015 #7
Where will the folks run and hide from a medium yield nuclear weapon: Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #8
300 tons equivalent n2doc Aug 2015 #9
This new monstrosity is a tactical battlefield weapon, not the super bombs on ICBM's and bomber aircraft? Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #10
Well, at it's high end, 50 Kt is not a tactical weapon. That's triple the Hiroshima bomb. stevenleser Aug 2015 #16
Umm... Aren't there already conventional bombs equivalent to the low end of the dial? hedda_foil Aug 2015 #12
Largest conventional bombs top out at 10-15 tons n2doc Aug 2015 #13
Thanks, Doc. hedda_foil Aug 2015 #14
Multiply by 10,000 for megaton (MT) nuclear bombs. For kilotons (KT) multiply by just 1000. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #18
??? Mega means million, that is 1,000,000 times ... ??? nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2015 #31
Yep. The Russian Tsar bomb is a massive 50,000,000 tons of TNT! Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #32
It's the Ronco Dial-A-Yield! tabasco Aug 2015 #6
Aw, it's so cute. progressoid Aug 2015 #11
All shiny and new and helpfully scaleable from tens of thousands of tons to only 300 tons of TNT equivalent! Because it cares..... Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #20
No riding!!! Initech Aug 2015 #19
Just what the world needs. . . . . . . B Calm Aug 2015 #22
Beg the comparison packman Aug 2015 #24
The plutonium production reactors and refineries at Hanford were built huge from the very start. hunter Aug 2015 #30
...and people are worried about guns. L0oniX Aug 2015 #25
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