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Widewing · « **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2006, 11:12:50 AM »

Guys, you can read about nuke armed Spads (ADs) on Dan Ford's website here.

Follow some of the other links for some interesting reading, such as this one.

My regards,

Widewing

Grits · « **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2006, 12:27:27 PM »

Ah, thanks for the link WW. The method described by the Banshee pilot is what my dad told me, I got it wrong. They did the loft at near verticle sending the bomb to high altitude and did a Cuban eight, not a split-S to egress.

Dad never did any live ord drops, but his oppinion was the same as the AD pilot. He definately thought if they ever had done a real nuke mission in the A-4 it would have been a one-way trip.

Wolfala · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2006, 03:19:18 PM »

So a baro alt or contact fuse for a 1 way trip with no hope of escaping the blast.
Nice plan.

Widewing · « **Reply #18 on:** July 30, 2006, 03:24:33 PM »

In one of the letters on Ford's site from former pilots trained to do nuke toss bomb attacks, a pilot writes...

"Our pilots were tossing practice bombs into 25 ft circles from 5 miles!"

Now I know where Pyro and HiTech got the current AH2 bombsight modeling!

My regards,

Widewing

DiabloTX · « **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2006, 03:37:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Rolex
SkyRaider (A-1) and SkyHawk (A-4) are not the same plane, DiabloTX.

A low-yield device delivered in a vertical toss against troops massing at some location, i.e. river crossing conceived during (and post) Korea.

Just because it was a plan doesn't mean it was a good plan...

Ummmm...where did I say they were???

The info that I posted can be found here.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2006, 10:10:29 PM »