ICBM video

[@erikitter6773]

Actually "mission accomplished" with ICBMs is to never (have to) fire any.

[@ricktimmons458]

peace is our business and business is good.

[@sashingopaul3111]

Rick Timmons peace does sell

[@donkeyslayer4661]

If you're not willing to use them, then their deterrence is meaningless, thus placing our nation and our world in a much dangerous place. As Thomas Jefferson said, " Those who beat their swords into plowshares, shall plow for those who did not".

[@deathsheir2035]

@@donkeyslayer4661 Deterrence, means stopping anything from happening. Nuclear deterrence comes from the fact, if one nation launches a nuke, ALL nations with nuclear weaponry, will launch as well. This is what is called Mutually Assured Destruction. As such, the purpose of nuclear weapons, is to deter the use of nuclear weapons. As such, if a nuclear weapon is launched, then nuclear weapons everywhere has failed their mission. When it comes to nuclear weaponry: Mission Accomplished only comes from 0 nukes being launched. Since every nation with nuclear weapons, is ready in the event of a nuclear launch, means it is 100% impossible for nuclear weaponry to accomplish their mission.

[@deathsheir2035]

@FusionGamer9600 Both Communist and Capitalist countries have cops killing innocent people. Left Wing Media only focuses on cop killings in the USA, because that's how propaganda works dumbass.

[@bombs8886]

I love how the music is so buoyant when what's happening there is probably the beginning of the end of the world.

[@thomasjordan3449]

bombs888 I noticed that too. Music to issue Armageddon by 🎵❓☠️

[@RHelenius]

Thought they were gonna shoot the missile into an unlabeled island, but no. Straight into a fucking huge city

[@michaelserebreny454]

Thomas Jordan now I know I'm in first class....

[@thatoneguykris]

@Bob Loblaw Agreed. It's just propoganda to justify the keep and use of these horrible weapons.

[@jasoncarswell7458]

Don't be silly. Not even full scale nuclear war will kill every human on earth, nor will it "end the world". Nuclear winter is horseshit and disproven. It'd be a catastrophe on the order of the Chixulub impact event, but the planet would recover in time.

[@wcatholic1]

Someone once said a strategic nuclear exchange would be like a shootout with flamethrowers in a phonebooth.

[@wcatholic1]

Ah, well, that's comforting.

[@ElectoneGuy]

Until someone started losing. Then they would start hitting countervalue targets.

[@ionia23]

More like two lunatics standing in a puddle of gasoline. One of them has seven matches, the other has five.

[@jefftheriault7260]

that would have to be a fairly large phonebooth. Maybe a studio apartment, that would do just as well.

[@crocodile1313]

Seven Seas17-- The best simplistic metaphor that I've ever read regarding nuclear war. Well done!

[@Dazlidorne]

3:30 God, that music makes killing millions of innocent civilians sound so exciting and cool! Thanks Northrop Grumman!

[@RT-qd8yl]

Fuck 'em

[@josephastier7421]

We had to nuke the planet in order to save it.

[@Walter_E_Kurtz]

That's what China thought when they were firing their missiles on us. How sweet.

[@josephastier7421]

@@Walter_E_Kurtz China nuked the USA? Why didn't anybody tell me? It should have at least been on the news or something.

[@VRichardsn]

Reminded me of the sountrack from The Peacemaker. You know, this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6exlaKXfZutg80

[@bardstables8909]

I never really realized how these actually worked until now. As scary as this is they are a bundle of amazing technology.

[@dalebaker2340]

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[@haroldanderson7327]

You are right, ICBM’s are amazing Birds, that I hope to God Never Fly. 🙏

[@williamsplays8528]

​@@haroldanderson7327 actually they have flown. But instead as a weapon of peace. Here is the video from Neil Armstrong's biography that got adapted into a movie. It's called First Man. This is known as project Gemini. This was flown on the top of a Titan-II kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6aUhXptepmXmM0

[@batmanVsJok3r]

@@haroldanderson7327 Unfortunately, they will. Excerpt from "Henoch Prophecies" by Billy Eduard Albert Meier, Official Contact Report 215, Saturday, February 28, 1987, 2.09 am: 168. Millions and even billions of people will be killed by acts of terrorism, by wars and civil wars; and finally, in some parts of the world, every third human being, and, in other places, every fourth human being, will lose his or her life. 169. The nations of the East will rise against the nations of the West, the West against the East. 170. Many deaths will be inflicted upon the people by fighter and bomber aircraft, and bombs and rockets will destroy and annihilate smaller and larger villages and cities. 171. The people will be completely powerless against all this and will live through 888 days of Hell on Earth, suffering hunger and plagues which will claim even more lives than the war itself. 172. The time will be severe as never before experienced on Earth. Ultimately, nothing can be bought or sold any longer. 173. All provisions will be rationed; and if a human being steals even a small piece of bread, he/she will have to pay for it with his/her life. 271. But death, destruction and annihilation will not only rage in Europe but also in America, where much suffering will have to be endured and many deaths as well as destruction and annihilation will be. 272. America and Russia will have the most terrible weapons of mass destruction at their disposal-a fact which is already the case to a certain extent today-and will clash with violent force against each other at that time of conflict, whereby Canada will also be dragged into this conflict. 273. The source of this conflict will substantiate the Russian attack on the American State of Alaska and against Canada. 274. This conflict will result in mass killings of human beings (nuclear weapons) as well as devastating destruction, annihilation and epidemics, etc., which mankind of Earth will never have seen and experienced up to that time. 275. Not only nuclear, biological and chemical weapons will be used en masse, but also enormously deadly systems of computer-controlled weapons that are only in the beginning stages of development today, or will be invented and constructed during the third millennium.

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

Nuclear weapons are fake.

[@uniquelycommon2244]

This is the very first video I've seen anywhere that actually demonstrates the modern (ie. early 1990's onward) launch procedures for Minuteman missiles. Superb find.

[@matchesburn]

@Billy B These systems aren't connected to anything outside of themselves. On top of that, they still require secured authorization in the way of authorization codes. Realistically, the only way to "hack" one would be to get into a command room and force the people in charge to do it for you, somehow. In which case you're not really hacking so much as hijacking. I mean, even if you could magic your way into "hacking" the system, you can't do anything about authorization codes in a safe in an underground bunker that requires two officers to unlock.

[@AzrealMaximus]

@@matchesburn and the NCA authorization code that matches the biscuit in the LCC, only way PAL will allow launch. You need a total of 4 officers to agree on launch orders, 4 sets, not 2 sets of keys and codes are needed to launch 10 birds.

[@jastrapper190]

@@matchesburn Wouldn’t you just need to send them (the men in the LCC) the correct signal? The officers receiving the signal have no idea if it actually came from the President or not. If they get the correct code and are told to immediately launch on one of their assigned targets… The Pentagon only has a few minutes to intervene before minutemen missiles are in the air. So hacking involves being in a position to know the code and sending it to the LCC.

[@matchesburn]

@@jastrapper190 "Wouldn’t you just need to send them (the men in the LCC) the correct signal?" ...And how do you do that with a closed system? Like with defense computers being on a secure intranet (their own private internet type of network) with nothing connected to the outside. The only way to interface with it would be to *_physically_* connect with it. The only way you could "hack" into anything is to physically take over a secured location that is defended with very serious people with very serious firepower that very seriously will shoot to defend it. And then, somehow, do that successfully and then commandeer the equipment. It's just not feasible. Even if you could lead such an assault on a communication hub or facility that would allow it, as soon as it's under attack it will just go into lockdown and the installation personnel will likely either destroy the equipment used to communicate or they will alert the Pentagon (probably even automatically with the correct alarms) to disregard any communications from said facility until it's been secured by a QRF. When it comes to hacking, you're just not going to be able to interface with the actual systems unless you do so directly and even then you're going to be surprised by how old some of them are. Unironically, you'd get further by doing social engineering stuff like Kevin Mitnick with just carrying around a clipboard with a uniform in the actual facility itself than trying to do so remotely. Because while you'll still likely get caught, at least you *_could_* do something if you were in the actual facility.

[@jastrapper190]

@@matchesburn The team(s) carrying the football(s) have the codes correct? So if they any of them lose their minds what is to prevent them from obtaining those numbers? Or the person who prints or handles the biscuits? The Marines flying Marine Two seize the VP’s football. There must be multiple “footballs” bc if the President is killed the VP needs access to those codes even if he is halfway around the globe. The President himself. Or or or… I’m not here to tell you how it would be done or write a Tom Clancy novel. Just pointing out that when the LCC speakers blare out a message. If it’s correct. The missiles can and will be on their way in minutes. The entire world’s fate lies in a single set of numbers coming through a speaker that the monkeys in the LCC have faith is coming directly from a valid authority (a sane and fit President of the United States). But they have no way of actually knowing that those numbers came from a valid authority. To me that sounds ridiculous. We’ve designed a system that can end the world and it’s contingent on a speaker and some numbers (which I’m sure hundreds of people have access to) never being transmitted by anyone other than the President. I heard a Major speak once. Retired Titan II Officer. He said at one point they had inserted keys before they were told an error had been made and to stand down. He was very specific about that. They had inserted their keys and were awaiting the specific time to turn them. Once turned there is nothing any human can do to stop the missile. If I understand the procedures correctly. That means their speaker blared out some numbers and they didn’t come from a “valid authority” and they were “correct”.

[@TheMax0005]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Human civilization destroyed. *Slow claps*

[@caddydaddy84]

Human civilization is an oxymoron. We basically suck and deserve anything we get

[@TheMax0005]

@@caddydaddy84 So far we are indeed a failed species. We will be destroyed by our own weapons...or industrialization/pollution. Ironically, we knew the solutions but pretty much ignored them

[@ggaggagga4]

Nah... only 2/3 will be destroyed. The sad thing is that this WILL HAPPEN eventually.

[@Anarchist86ed]

@@ggaggagga4 100 nuclear weapons would end civilization as we know it and effectively turning the Earth into a lifeless rock for... ever.

[@koc988]

@@Anarchist86ed the world would be fine

[@wondereagle]

Mission accomplished, now lets go home.....oh yeah.....

[@fistoldeldiablo]

what home?

[@fistoldeldiablo]

you don´t have a fucking single home to go stupid morón.

[@ivx8345]

you Vulcan? Obviously don't know about sarcasm.

[@DarthVader-1701]

Real Genius.

[@TheMax0005]

Sorry comrade, your home was triple nuked by Russian and Chinese ICBM and subs.....How about a nice game of chess?

[@SSGTStryker]

I wish they still wore the blue fatigues. It just had a unique, squared away look. When I was at NORAD, I used to say it would be cool if we could adopt the blue SAC fatigue in honor of those who were the vanguards of the Cold War defense apparatus.

[@chasvicjr53]

even though they were funky & weird, i didn't mind wearing my "crew blues" & ascot.

[@PogingNavy94]

Me, a millennial: Blues Crews. Blues Crews.

[@dennissvitak148]

Hey..I miss the old 1505's. I wore them for a couple of years.

[@SSGTStryker]

@@dennissvitak148 I’m jealous, they were phased out by the time I was in. They’re definitely squared away. Btw, thank you for your service gents. 🫡

[@dukeford8893]

@@dennissvitak148 Lol. The khakis were terrible. After wearing them for an hour they looked like you'd slept in them. Thank God for permanent pressed uniforms!

[@ilm-def8920]

Once those keys are turned and ELC Message Transmit is complete, there is no turning back.

[@danelder6846]

ELC? What the hell is ELC?

[@jamesbrock3584]

Once the genie is out of the bottle, we will not be able to put it back inside.

[@IrishLincoln]

@@danelder6846 Enable Launch Code. Once the ELC is transmitted to the missile computer, then that is it. You can't stop it or turn it off. There's no calling the missile back and there's no self-destruct. Nuclear war begins.

[@henrikkristiansen3869]

@@danelder6846 "Enable Launch Code". I.E the missiles have been authorized to launch, the EAM launch codes and the SILOs launch codes match. It’s akin to taking the safety of a gun. Edit: new more accurate information

[@danelder6846]

@@henrikkristiansen3869 Were you a missileer?

[@The-Endungeoned]

I. I hear sirens screaming C. See lightning rip the sky, B. Be afraid my darling M. Embrace me as we die.

[@scotcarr3390]

It's not as original as your poetry (meaning not original), but the Apocalyptic poem from "The Omen" is fitting as well. "When the Jews return to Zion "And a comet rips the sky "And when the Holy Empire rises "Then you & I must die. "From the Eternal Sea he rises "Creating armies on either shore "Turning Man against his Brother "Until Man exists no more."

[@The-Endungeoned]

@@scotcarr3390 That's cool. Thank you for reminding me this comment I posted more than a year ago, which is not original either. These are lyrics taken from the song Terminus, written by the great British singer and poet Martin Walkyier.

[@The-Endungeoned]

'Megeddo's Gateway.' Hunter of the silent darkness-- Mighty steel leviathan, Rise from your nocturnal vigil-- 'Davey Jones' the time has come. Send spitting fires and roaring thunder--instigate Poseidon's wrath, Unleash the terrors of the deep uncertain of the aftermath. Attack is the best form of defense--fingers on a keyboard play, When genocide's a numbered sequence death is but a breath away. I. I hear sirens screaming-- C. See lightning rip the sky, B. Be afraid my darling-- M. Embrace me as we die. Dark clouds gather (tensions mounting)--current tides are making waves, They navigate a sea of tears--above them storms in tea-cups rage. Only Jonah 'neath the ocean witnesses the damage done, But can't turn back the hands of time--none can unload a smoking gun. I. I hear sirens screaming-- C. See lightning rip the sky, B. Be afraid my darling-- M. Embrace me as we die. The lords of Fleet Street speculate--as noble statesmen mediate, They tread on thin ice cracked by hate--one slip could spell disaster. We gave you power to decide--but now you gamble with our lives, We've all been taken for a ride--next stop the hereafter. These implements of science-friction-- Are the pawns of power play, By splitting hairs and splitting atoms-- They'll kill us all the 'new-clear' way. Entice us through Megeddo's gateway on this final exodus, As flesh is turned to ash and vapour by the fires of 'terminus.'

[@scotcarr3390]

@@The-Endungeoned I tend to be flippant in the face of absolute darkness so please don't think I'm making fun when I say "well, that cast rather a gloom over the evening!" It's simply nanners when folks think we can but ride out & plan to survive a nuclear war. The horror of a small-scale exchange (artillery nuke munitions, low-yield tactical warheads, "dial a yield" gravity bombs & sub-launched missiles) will likely shock world leaders from crossing the rubicon into an exchange using "zone-killers" strategic missiles, but they also not fool themselves that even the relatively small damage resulting from a "tactical" exchange will not be a cakewalk.

[@The-Endungeoned]

@@scotcarr3390 That's true. Let's just hope that a virus or something won't be able to pre-fulfiill the effects of these events.

[@Otaku155]

Behind a concrete door slammed shut, no starlit skies of night, No sun-bleached clouds in azure sky, in which to dance in flight. But certain as the rising sun, these tacit warriors seldom see, They're ever grimly ready, for someone has to be. Beneath it all they're common men, who eat and sleep and dream, But between them is a common bond, of knowledge they're a team. A group of men who love their land, who serve it long and well, Who stand their thankless vigil, on the brink of man-made hell.

[@nuthineatholl6434]

Here I sit Broken-hearted Tried to launch Engine mis-started ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

[@joncampos5551]

SLMNW Very pretty

[@mikegallant811]

Our grim faced lads and lasses With the little brass keys Hopefully they'll never need unlock Pandora's fateful box Stalwart young warriors I pray that you get to leave the little brass keys in the big red box.

[@InvictusProductionsX]

@@nuthineatholl6434 Saw a similar line on a porter john when I served. "Here I sit, broken hearted, came to shit but only farted."

[@beenaplumber8379]

@@InvictusProductionsX "Here I sit, on the pooper, giving birth to another state trooper." (Truck stop, of course.)

[@BoeingSkunkWorks]

Great video. I worked at Whiteman on MMII in the '80's. We were still using the old consoles in the LCC's and not the newer REACT consoles. LF's were pretty much the same though, just slightly different bird. I can guarantee you there were no Lt. Col's in the LCC's. This was in a trainer.

[@sce2aux464]

Question I have is: What's the career outlook in the AIr Force for those who have spent their junior officer years manning the silos?

[@wxmyjnsn]

I was at Whiteman in 90-95 as a PMT and FMT. What did you do?

[@BoeingSkunkWorks]

I was in EMT shop.

[@raymondrodriguez9389]

@@wxmyjnsn Gotta Love the Great City of Knob Noster. GO PANTHERS!!!!

[@wxmyjnsn]

@@raymondrodriguez9389 you should see how much bigger it is now.

[@rickd1412]

I got to take a tour of the SAC underground command center in Omaha during the 1980's. We were told that deadly force was authorized, and this was EXTREMELY SERIOUS. We were told to put our hands in our pockets AND NOT REMOVE THEM! Then we were led down a long hall that had a serviceman with a 12 ga. pump looking at us through an armored hole in the wall as we moved down the hallway. Next, we noticed our little group had another service man behind us with a 12 ga.. We then entered an elevator for a long ride down to the control room. The serviceman in the elevator told us to keep our mouths SHUT and not to make any sudden moves. The control room was dark with several large screens "supposedly" showing us the current disposition of SAC forces around the world. The funniest thing they told us was - that if a phone in the control room rang, we were not to answer it. I just smiled.

[@Brian6587]

I can't even begin to imagine the psychological implications of a job like this. I can't help but think of the 1983 movie "The Day After" when I see this. I can't help but hear that line "Step 1: Launch Keys Inserted" "Roger"

[@beenaplumber8379]

The son of one of those two launch officers depicted in that movie, Lt. Krause, has commented in threads under this video and elsewhere. That footage was all shot by the military and used by the filmmakers to save the cost of having to stage it themselves. (US govt copyright products go immediately into the public domain.) Those were the real people going through the actual procedure, not actors.

[@Brian6587]

@@beenaplumber8379 thank you for mentioning! It looked like real training footage! Such a heavy heavy responsibility that I can’t even begin to imagine the mental toll it takes on the officer. God bless them for all they do!

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

It's not bad because it's all fake.

[@csn6234]

You can't but help everything

[@FlyGuy2000]

They drill so often it becomes routine for them, and they are selected and screened on their ability to understand the importance of their position as a deterrent and to carry out their orders without hesitation. These aren't the kind of guys who sit around losing sleep over their job.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Upon receipt of the emergency alert, we insert the 5-1/4" floppy disk with instructions into the Commodore PET. We then copy the radio message into a Hilroy notebook using an HB pencil. This is compared to the codes that come via landline from the dot-matrix printer ....

[@Emophiliac2]

When I was taking classes on a Commodore PET, who knew that we were that close to being able to launch a nuclear attack? (Who am I kidding - we didn't have floppy disks back then. I wonder if you could get instructions off a cassette tape?)

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Emophiliac2 Load 1, 1

[@JayKayKay7]

Here is true story from 1991. I had just gotten out of Air Force in 9/1991 after having been stop-lossed with the First Gulf War and took an anesthesia job with a Colonel who had been recalled to Wilford Hall from his private group in Waco, TX. That winter the wife attended a concert by a opera singer. He was this big black guy with a great voice and at the party afterward for him in one of the local doctor's house I got to talking with him. I mention how I was new in town having just gotten out of the Air Force and he pipes up that he as well had just gotten out of the Air Force. I asked what did he do and his reply was that he had been a O-4 (Major) Missile Control Launch Officer in some ICBM silo in the midwest. I asked why he got out? And his reply was, "When I realized with the collapse of the Soviet Empire that I probably was not going to get to blow up the world, I decided to chase my dream and sing."

[@larryclemens1850]

I don't know exactly how to feel about this.

[@JayKayKay7]

Thank you for your comment.@@larryclemens1850

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

If he had said that to me, I'd be at a loss to reply and there would've been a real awkward silence.

[@MATTE.U.K]

City full of people destroyed: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[@Espresso375]

ez

[@odd574]

That is the sad reality of using these weapons. That's why it's important mutual assured destruction stay in place. If one side thinks they can actually achieve a successful first strike then the odds of using these weapons goes up

[@662wc5]

Decades of deterrence that prevents cities full of people being destroyed: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED You chose an appropriate screen name.

[@timhardy9522]

Missile delivered on-target - mission accomplished.

[@coolcatrick3454]

Coconuthead city full of human beings like us, who never did a thing to us, destroyed. population mostly vaporized. many left burned and blinded. waiting for fallout to mop up the rest. NOBODY WINS!!

[@kc8hnz]

"Roger understand. Major Reinhardt, we have a massive attack against the USA at this time. ICBMs. Numerous ICBMs. Roger understand. Over 300 missiles inbound now"

[@internetperiodista]

+MrJanizPetke PLUS ONE OVER HERE !!!!

[@shauntaulbee917]

+kc8hnz Whoa! You have that line memorized too!?!

[@Wonkabar007]

I guess they don't have to phone enable command these days.

[@owgotstung5354]

+kc8hnz Actually in the movie you heard a slip, he actually said: "We have a massive attack at at this time..." A little bit of useless information.

[@blondknight99]

"Is this an exercise?Roger copy this is not an exercise."

[@ulrichfodze355]

0:55 I love the good old MS/DOS shell

[@gmaglio]

Front End Engineering is hard

[@dennissvitak5475]

I served on active duty for 20+ years, as a meteorologist. I was asked to develop the weather portion of a computer program that modeled the low level winds over the Soviet Union, about ... 48 years ago. I was told later that me and my co-worker "measurably" reduced the C.E.P. (Curcular Error, Probable) of our ICBM's. In essence we made our missiles more accurate. Got me a Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) for my trouble.

[@jimkoral3824]

The ICBM stages in flight reminds me of a Russian nesting doll that keeps getting smaller and smaller.

[@activelow9297]

The missiles that the Russians launch look like actual matroyashka dolls!

[@belfastlad55]

Excellent Video. Thanks Air Force For Your Dedication And Commitment .

[@funnyfarmdad9997]

In all my 20+ years working Minuteman missiles I never ever saw two LtCols on alert together.

[@MichaelSmith-ff9il]

Majors

[@marknguyen8664]

Sir, did the crew know the intended target of the missile they were launching, or were the coordinates of the target encoded in the launch instruction from the Pentagon?

[@Vadigor]

@@marknguyen8664 I'm a bit late and not the OP but I can answer this: launch crews never know their targets. They get a coded message telling them to select one of a number of predetermined targets and execute the fire mission, nothing else. It helps to dehumanise the process. I believe a number of possible target lists were released or leaked and are available online if you're interested.

[@chasvicjr53]

i agree, this video is totally fake, i was also combat crew and did this job as a 2nd Lt.

[@leutrovond]

🤣🤣🤣 yup

[@joncampos5551]

Ok, I thought the entire missile exploded; didn’t know it broke up in stages like a rocket. Very informative.

[@kylematlock7499]

most early rocket designs, and some current ones started as ICBMs

[@MichaelPontisso-mx1bq]

The final bus also carries decoys to confuse tracking radar inflatable copy of the rv same radar cross section

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@@kylematlock7499 Von Braun had worked on the V2, an "INBM"

[@twecrs1]

As far as I can tell all of our Minutemen ll missiles are MIRVed meaning multiple re-entry vehicles with up to 10 nuclear warheads per missile

[@lawv804]

The ICBM program and space program developed side by side and used some of the same launch vehicles. The science and engineering of sending a nuke to the other side of the world and putting satellites and astronauts in orbit are largely the same.

[@pukavec_vasa]

Anyone in 2024?

[@axelfriedrich1601]

It's looking good!!

[@AngryBones-]

🤯

[@1993TheDuke]

Still here!

[@carlosvasquez9890]

Mid April ...still here ! 😂

[@aerokasyeal4840]

@@carlosvasquez9890 still here my bros

[@Zoomer30]

Gonna say this right now: would suck SO MUCH to get a BSOD right now.....

[@iammichaeldavis]

+Richiezhang880 And they're all still running DOS

[@jwaustinmunguy]

+Michael Davis There was a specific IBM real-time control computer used for this. The same system was used to run part of the control room in some Canadian nuclear power stations. These were a bitch to support as the machines aged. At the end of the cold war a software emulator came on the market and Ontario Hydro bought some. It had been a black program that was declassified. The old computers in launch silos had been replaced with the secret emulator. I had a couple of brothers working in Ontario and heard the story from one.

[@polygamous1]

+Horizon585 no its apple

[@owgotstung5354]

+John Austin I wonder if the "Integrity" realtime embedded microkernel operating system had its roots with this software, only reason I ask is because Integrity is a true RTOS that is used in defense industries, amongst many, with the source code being classified. Apparently, the U.S. Government, and Military use it, just a thought though, I would really have no way of confirming it either way. It seems Integrity could also be quite useful to power generating stations of all types, because of its many certifications of stability, reliability, and security.

[@kylecarmichael9158]

Grew up in the #5 city to be blown up, actually saw the missile targeted at my city as an adult. The Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Commander said the missile the US commander was seeing was targeted at Cheyenne where I lived...F.E. Warren. Now I'm lucky...I only live 150 miles East from Idaho Nat. Labs., totally safe now. Hell my High School was majority non-windowed interior classrooms in case of nuke war.

[@michaelplanchunas3693]

Worked 60 years ago on a ranch north of Cheynne. On the rancher's land was Atlas Missile Site One, just west off Atlas Road. It was a quarter mile from I-25. Scary. Yet it had a big billboard on the Interstate identifying itself. Told never to go past the barbed wire separating his land from the site. Only time I saw a rattlesnake, and it was on the other side of the fence.

[@JM-uz6vt]

Growing up on the central coast of CA we used to see the test launches of ICBM’s from Vandenberg Launch Facility. Silos.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I remember seeing a launch from Death Valley at night and not knowing what it was but I guessed correctly. When I got back to Pahrump, NV half an hour later, there were several car crashes from people being mesmerized by the launch while driving. When I got on the internet at the hotel, half of California was freaking out thinking it was a UFO. These launches happen all the time, Californians are such idiots.

[@clqudy4750]

Yesss! Do it! Fire everything and end this nightmare called humanity!

[@nonautemrexchristus5637]

ICBM.exe has crashed

[@Jaxymann]

+Craig Thomas ...into Russia.

[@mjl1966y]

+Craig Thomas LOL. I was wondering about all the fancy ass software they were running there.

[@RainbowManification]

+mjl1966y Quasi-fancy. They still use floppy disks down there.

[@alexanderking5395]

+Ben Bosley Would you trust windows software in an ICBM Silo? Half way through the launch sequence you get an illegal operation pop up and have to restart the computer! LOL I doubt you have enough time before the Russian or Chinese missile hits you first!

[@uniquelycommon2244]

+Ben Bosley Nah. The giant floppy disks from the 70's and 80's are used in the communications systems that receive the nuclear launch orders. In contrast, the computers you see in this video that launch the missiles are state-of-the-art early-1990's technology. :)

[@crocodile1313]

I grew up at the end of the Cold War in the '80s. And I was always astonished, and terrified, that all of the world's hopes, dreams and accomplishments could be utterly destroyed in about 30 minutes with the turn of a key.

[@st4rlightr4v3n4]

And nearly were on several occasions. We have a Russian missile tech to thank for refusing to fire during (what turned out to be an errant) launch warning. And I think there was a similar story of a US member in a similar circumstance, but I've forgotten .

[@KristyThomas-p1j]

Nah just North Korea’s,and Russia’s

[@konradstrachan]

The depiction of the procedures is really interesting, but the up beat music is really tone deaf given what a Mission Accomplished here would actually represent

[@bocabec6744]

These videos should be played and discussed in high school. Most people just go about our daily life without much thought of anything happening to our nation.

[@robertfreestone414]

Why isn't this activated sonically? "Clap on. All GONE!"

[@revolver106]

Love how they strap themselves in as if they're going with the ICBM

[@christophdollis1955]

It's so they don't get jostled out of their chairs by incoming nukes.

[@anner091]

"I said 'lunch' not 'launch'!"

[@therunningman761]

"Lunch it!"

[@patwiggins6969]

Damn what was the name of that show? Played Saturday mornings. Bob Denver's first gig after Gilligan's island

[@patwiggins6969]

Far out space nuts. What a name. Seemed a lot cooler when I was 10.

[@mikegallant811]

Give me a large us first strike special, and a 2-liter nuka cola. And hold the anchovies!

[@jasonray7829]

I get extreme stress responses when I watch this stuff, micro panic attacks, yet I am compelled to watch it periodically, or before the internet I would think it out. Psychological framing with sexual sideshow.

[@1FokkerAce]

The music for the missile flight is like “YAY FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!” 😂😂😂

[@HK-sp1pl]

Thanks. I found this tutorial very helpful.

[@albertalvarez9923]

awesome launch sequence, had the makings of hollywood blockbuster all over it.

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

It's all fake anyway it might as well be a Hollywood movie

[@GeneralChangFromDanang]

If you forget your combination to the lock box, is there a janitor that comes and opens it for you?

[@elrae70]

Just shim it.

[@charlielear5465]

Pair of hands comes into view, "This is the Lockpicking Lawyer..."

[@NJNate83]

@@charlielear5465 Outstanding.

[@stevekaraminas3910]

The dramatic music is a really nice accompaniment to the end of the human race…well done!!!

[@MadMax-se3pi]

Hello fellow Airman.Jim West. I also was part of the USAF Strategic Air command Security team but I was station in North Dakota. And like yourself it was in the early 70's. I agree with the Mutually Assured Destruction comment. Since are county is a super power it would be " mad" for another country with or without nuclear capability to back the United States into a corner . The Air force Emblem has a picture of a Eagle. which is a bird. Which means the Air force controls the sky. We also refer to missiles as birds " death from the sky." You probably had a top secret clearance like me. it's important that I maintain a status of secrecy pertaining to anything that the Air Force has. And how they go about their Operations .Even though I was debrief before I was discharged from the base

[@robbhahn8897]

'This is it boys--toe to toe nuclear battle with the ruskies!"

[@kw5591]

I've been to 1 world fair, a picnic , and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come across a set of earphones!

[@neilruedlinger4851]

@@kw5591 In today's context where Putin has threatened Nuclear War with the West, if the West keeps 'interfering' with his invasion of Ukraine, is this comment still relevant?

[@SoloSailorDave]

"How about a nice game of chess?"😼

[@viperch25]

think i'd rather play a game of tic tac toe lol

[@vicioustwist]

Stange game, Prof. Falken. The only winning move is not to play.

[@MidnightCravings]

*Who came to watch this in 2022?* 🙏

[@ketelin4285]

Yeah , skynet pushed it as recommended . It knows something :)

[@greezyhammer764]

Why do I click on YT recommended...

[@Mutrino]

The music....my god, this is not a Call of Duty video game. This is Armageddon.

[@normlor8109]

I ALWAYS THOUGHT SEEING THE REAL LAUNCH WAS TOTALLY CLASSIFIED BUT IT TAKES JUST MINUTES TO DESTROY ANY CITY ON EARTH AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE???!!!

[@kypdurron62]

Your statement makes no sense. Why would video of a missile coming out of a tube be classified, or the video of them going through the procedure. And yes, it does just take minutes. What is your point?

[@mrtuvok5578]

Half an hour

[@monarch6057]

3:48 playing uplifting inspirational type of background music as they illustrate the use of a weapon that is literally intended to commit genocide

[@kennethpadgettflightparame3548]

TWO Lt Cols in this video? Lol. They must’ve wanted to be in the video as usually they are captains & lieutenants.

[@Sanzaru123]

When the youtube algorithm starts to scare you

[@Debonair.Aristocrat]

1:15 This isn't survival, it's destruction.

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

It's actually all fake

[@kjell-akeapell3285]

It,s of course a scary moment that hopefully will newer come.But the video is very good and the music gives me goosebumps.

[@mray1375]

I never saw a Lt Col sitting a duty shift inside a launch control capsule. Normally, the two launch officers were a Captain and a 1st Lieutenant and they wore a pair of jogging shorts, tee shirt, flip flops, or tennis shoes.

[@stanleyharrell6009]

I wondered if anyone would catch the fact both of the guys were Lt Colonels. That would never happen except for a staged test.

[@baraxor]

It's interesting to see the current version of the launch control panels...I remember watching a circa 1990 documentary about Minuteman crew training, and while the coop/launch turnkey switches are the same, the preparatory enabling controls and status lights have been replaced by keyboards and video monitors. This simulation is quieter as well; when the missiles lifted off in the 90s simulation the call-out went "launch in process...fault, outer security, inner security, eleven's gone!", with alarm bells ringing to indicate (I assume) that the rocket blast set off every intruder sensor around, and with the commander crossing off the launch indicator lights with a grease pencil.

[@jackfredricks6223]

You probably saw a 'before REACT' system. Not all of the missile systems were exactly alike over the years. Each base (Malmstrom and F.E. Warren were exceptions with 1 squadron that was different) were identical throughout but there were differences between many of the bases. We had 1000 missiles at the peak though we have deactivated half of the bases and are now at a 450 missile count after START. Over the years there have been many upgrades and the REACT system was phased in completely in conjunction with some base/missile group closures. Ironically the REACT system would be considered ancient by today's computer standards, but that is necessary to do all the testing to ensure that the equipment meets the rigid standards for nuclear weapon system use.

[@davidandgaillorier-may1967]

Yeah well aside for the difficulting in getting parts now and the horror of actually firing the things if it all goes pear shaped, if the system is still working fine why fix it? Waste of money otherwise. Sometimes new isn't good.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

I lost it when the town disappeared under a mushroom cloud and the text said "Mission Accomplished!"

[@bobchurch6175]

To those of you who worked there. I'm just curious but was there anything in the training or procedures about what you should do once they'd launched? Or was that page left deliberately blank?

[@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975]

close the lid back up and have a Miller beer.

[@jimwest6571]

Assuming the underground launch crew (officers) survive any nearby nuclear above ground blast they have a month or so rations, food and water stored underground with them. Their sobering job is complete. The missiles cannot be "called-back" and since these sites are targets themselves you can assume there is radiation above ground. Each capsule does technically have an escape hatch that you would have to try and crawl out of at some point. (If it is NOT destroyed) It would be a brave new world---or total devastation or perhaps "nuclear winter" topside. Too horrible to think about quite frankly.

[@neilruedlinger4851]

Another job they had waiting, was to launch a second wave of ICBMs, if there were any surviving functional missiles left.

[@dennisbart1366]

Did you guys notice the 3 fiction books on the credenza behind the frmr CMDR, 20th? Space, Executive Orders, and Mayday.

[@glennday7802]

Glad to see the Air Force was considerate enough to make cozy chairs for the launch team. They probably cost taxpayers millions.

[@JasonMasters]

I think one of the more disturbing "nuclear war" movies I've seen is probably "When the Wind Blows". It's a cartoon movie but horribly realistic and definitely not for kids. It shows what the results would probably be if someone in England far enough away from the initial blast to survive followed all of the advice which was then current in officially issued brochures about how to survive after an atomic attack. Just how badly useless, lacking and even harmful the advice was is horrifyingly illustrated. Last I knew, it was available for viewing here on YT, as is the next movie... Next in line would be "On the Beach", a much-underrated post-nuclear-war movie. It's slow paced, but gives a horribly realistic depiction of the southern hemisphere (mostly Australia) being slowly poisoned by radiation coming south through fallout in the air from the atomic war in the northern hemisphere. The final scene of On the Beach is obviously meant to be symbolic. A minister of religion has been holding open-air meetings, exhorting people to repent before they die. The movie keeps on returning to his meetings, which gradually have fewer and fewer people as everyone slowly dies from radiation poisoning. Then comes that final scene, where there's nobody left. Not even the minister. All that's left is the huge banner he put up above his podium: "There Is Yet Time"

[@jamesbarnard9710]

In the event of incoming warheads, if you are above ground, do the M1 maneuver... Bend over, grasp your ankles. Place you head between your legs. Pucker up...and kiss your @$$ goodbye!

[@mixmashandtinker3266]

Strapping in yourself into the office chair..? Must be REALLY be bad foundations in that bunker....

[@Enrage13]

1. The amount of energy from the launched missile that would be imparted into the structure could potentially damage the facility. 2. Nuclear missile launch sites are almost certainly the first targets to be hit by inbound missiles. You don't want your missile operators to be bounced across the room at a critical moment by a close nuclear strike.

[@allanrichardson1468]

3. On the off chance that some rogue officer could devise a way to turn both keys alone after killing his partner, they probably have interlocks so that both operators must be in their seats (weight and body temperature) and buckled in (current path through buckles and proper tension to prove the belts are strapped around the operator) for a minimum amount of time in order for the keys to work.

[@c4fishfood]

@@allanrichardson1468 I suspect that it is almost entirely No2. Some bunkers are on spring foundations to dampen ground motions from a nearby nuclear blast. With regard to No 1, the amount of energy from an ICBM being launched would be no doubt impressive, but I suspect it would be more high frequency "vibration" rather than the "knock you out of your seat" type rolling waves from a nuke blast. With regard to No3, I believe that the keys are spring loaded and must be held for a certain amount of time, but they probably don't have any interlocks beyond the two humans. One of the interesting things about nuke weapons is the the military's desire to not have them "fail safe", the mindset is that failsafe features (such as a weight/temp switch on the launchers seat, or an excess of arming failsafe mechanisms on the war head) will increase the probability that a properly authorized and launched nuke might not detonate. This will lessen the deterrence factor of nuke weapons, which actually increases the odds that an enemy may strict first. Sick shit.

[@thomaswood7495]

I've never seen LtCol's as active Launch Crew Members.

[@jackfelici2453]

This video was made at the ICBM program office using a simulator. We used the only missileers assigned there at the time.

[@baahcusegamer4530]

God love the Air Force, but that music was horrifically inappropriate.

[@joepops727]

Why do they strap into their seat when they're in a stationary underground bunker?

[@mcahill135]

The capsule they’re manning rests on springs that dampen out possible vibrations from the missile launches and because their launch sites are primary targets for Russian MIRVs. There will be a whole lotta rockin’ and a shakin’ going on when the Russian nukes arrive.

[@dodougla]

Remember they would be shooting at us too. The "bunker" they're in is suspended on shock absorbers to help it survive enemy missile attacks. They would get tossed around pretty good in the event of a close impact.

[@vicioustwist]

The bunker is built on shock absorbers.

[@doctortabasco]

Oh Shit, this is my car's keys... so the nuke keys... OH NOOO!!!

[@wxmyjnsn]

In the early 90s I was a missile maint tech and I don't remember seeing Lt Col in the capsule. Mostly Capt and majors.

[@d.b.1176]

Turn your key sir, turn your key!!!

[@Thextoastxisxbob]

wow that was a strange choice in music for that last bit

[@jameshalleluyah8133]

I thought it was uplifting. =)

[@thenderson5509]

I hope there's a few cute little airmen down there for the following weeks. 3-4 weeks worth of air, food, won't even need condoms.

[@TheWhoisDave]

that choice of music really gives off that 'end of civilization as we know it' vibe

[@Saltee323]

Can someone tell me why they have seatbelts?

[@arsenalryche]

Assuming they survive a retaliatory hit, they'd get tossed pretty hard into the walls if there were a nearby explosion. Seat belt might save their lives...till everything melted from the insane level of heat.

[@Saltee323]

arsenalryche Got it. Thanks for the info :)

[@xismxist]

You really believe they would survive if the nuclerar bomb sitting on that rocket went off?! but survive if only the rocket itself exploded, yes maybe.

[@timothybrummer8476]

If we were attacked first, any nuclear bomb going off within one mile produces intense seismic waves. Think magnitude 10 earthquake. The control capsule and missiles are suspended on large springs to absorb this shock, but it also produces large movements that can throw loose objects around.

[@hoghogwild]

Which is why the US and Russia required warheads in the megaton range. Nowadays with how accurate the missiles are, we can do more damage with newer smaller warheads than the much larger early warheads with lower accuracy.

[@victabeer3960]

The missile launch guys that turn the key would eventually go insane knowing they vapourised a city .

[@MajorKong1]

First they didn't during WWII, we destroyed lot's of cities then. Second if that particular button is pressed they are probably dead within 15 minutes of launch anyway. The other side launched theirs first and they got theirs out before the incoming strike.

[@josephastier7421]

@@MajorKong1 They might die before they can launch. In 1977 the USA shifted its nuclear policy from "launch on warning", to "Ride out and retaliate". We now wait for the first punches to land before we start swinging. Our land-based silos might go away as this happens. It's a riskier policy (relies pretty much entirely on our submarines for second strike) but it removes the risk of ending humanity due to data that could be incorrect for any number of reasons.

[@douglasscovil3447]

@@MajorKong1 it's questionable whether or not they could launch before being nuked by incoming russky missles on a first strike.

[@MajorKong1]

@@douglasscovil3447 That's why we have an early warning system. Then there's all those subs.

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

Not sure if they are in on the "nuclear weapons" psyop or not

[@chrisbelfield1519]

Two lieutenant colonels sitting alert - not! Too clean, had to be a training simulator on base.

[@curmudgeonextraordinaire1884]

Obviously

[@BritishEngineer]

All these layers of security systems link to a central controller. To launch an ICBM without the need for authority or rogue officials orientation, the operation to reverse engineer these systems dissembling them and bypassing security systems is necessary.

[@greezyhammer764]

For this reason, guidance systems engineers are never allowed in silos, while silo operators are never explained the guidance system. All the operators know are these anonymous targets 1, 2 & 3 but have no idea what they actually are.

[@BritishEngineer]

@@greezyhammer764 well a large effort wearing a professional mask and changing your voice, creating valid references, social, internet and reputable industry then you may have a chance of after going through your qualifications again.Someone crazy enough to set one off may as well as be crazy enough to do such thing.

[@cybrneil5]

12 yrs later… this is still a reality

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

Nuclear weapons are fake

[@terd235]

ICBMs, UCBMs, we all CBMs.

[@LuisFelipy]

TURN YOUR KEY, SIR!

[@nathanarcher6764]

Give an 80 year old nukes and he thinks he's throwing crayons at the Egyptians

[@Proskilljg]

The music while the missile launchs though 💀

[@Mubashar783]

😂

[@philoshaughnessy906]

Chilling!

[@lloydevans9236]

"Mutual Assured Destruction" worked!

[@oldvet7547]

Thanks to these men and women that stand ready to defend an respond for or country. I sleep better knowing they stand on the wall.

[@steil1634]

fun or not so fun fact, that before hitting the ground, warheads reach the speed up to 25 Mach

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

Scary. Don’t know if I could turn that key, as in War Games. That was an interesting scenario. Do you go on trusting men, or do you take them out of the loop, and risk a Collosus/ Skynet?

[@davedave6650]

Do those chairs recline?

[@zudemaster]

They look great for someones gameroom!

[@billythekid3234]

Dave Dave sir they do not recline and are on metal tracks, PEACE!

[@bdv861]

They do recline, but no cup holder or vibrator.

[@HebrewYisrael]

They had better start aiming at Asteroids, Comets, & Meteors

[@syvyn11]

Watch Without Warning and think again.

[@Walter_E_Kurtz]

Now I know how to launch the missile. All I need now is the combination to that damn padlock.

[@justicelut]

As Einstein said, “ I do not know how they will fight world war three, but I do know how they will fight world war four, with sticks and stones!”

[@lonewolfsim6837]

They were not kidding about that blast door, that thing shot out the fence.

[@snappycattimesten]

Thanks for the heads up of what happened for the few africans that survive.

[@tylerl6400]

God bless those brave men .

[@quantum.decoherence]

whats brave about them?

[@MaxSolar-dd5wq]

[removed message due to inconsistency in history]

[@neilruedlinger4851]

@@MaxSolar-dd5wq This remark is more appropriately directed at the Russians, they're the ones since the Cold War era who have consistently threatened to use nuclear weapons against the West.

[@hubertwalters4300]

@@quantum.decoherence Hell,they are inside a major target,it takes some amount of bravery to do that,knowing that in the event of nuclear war,you are going to be vaporized.

[@marcusoglesby4217]

Really, 2 Lt Colonels in the hole. It would be a Captain and a Lt doing the job.

[@marksides9757]

I often wonder if a Russian first launch would hit before all the code and counter code and launch checks would be completed. I've seen numbers that say 30 minute flight time before the Russian MRVS release, not sure how accurate that is.

[@devinoneill8121]

The world has ended- MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[@sce2aux464]

"Missiles Launched - Your Mission Is A Failure"

[@billydoyle6919]

I'm reassured a little, the operation is not Windows based.

[@floridaboz1]

Finally a video of how the launch door really opens, every other video i see is the launch door being slowly opened. That is just not how it works

[@pirrracy]

It's the nuke explosion from the start of Terminator 3 ... LOL.

[@Jet3ch]

can someone tell me why they are wearing seat belts in the launch chair?

[@rjframe4410]

because an incoming strike would rock the building , cant return fire if your knocked out on your ass

[@advancedapproachproduction2394]

M.I. A. This was in one of the airborne command stations, so incase the pilot takes evasive maneuvers or they are hit with AAA they can still operate the equipment.

[@Jet3ch]

Oh ok got it thanks. I thought they were underground. I guess the guy up there didnt know either.

[@hoghogwild]

No, that was a bunker well underground capable of withstanding a nuclear strike. A nuke exploding near this room would literally move the entire complex and the ground it was built in. Same reason why the blast room underneath the launch pads 39A and 39B where the Apollo rockets were launched from, had a large room with about 50 seats that were suspended on large coil springs. If there was a fire and the crew couldn't get away using the slide wire baskets, they slid down this long slide down into this blast room, strapped down in the chairs and rode out the explosions as several hundred tons of rocket fuel exploded above them.These 2 missile launchers wore seat belts so that they weren't thrown across the room as a Soviet nuke exploded on their site. Talk about an earthquake. The nukes sent to attack these site would be surface exploding or bunker buster types in order to try an take out the missiles underground, while most nukes that take out cities or surgace targets are usually attacked by a fuze that detonates a couple thousand feet in the air.These guys were half of the crew needed to launch 10 Minuteman 3 missiles, their 4 key turns at the same time, were combined with another 4 key turns from another separate bunker to send 10 of the 150 missiles at that AF base aloft. To fire all 150 missiles would require 60 guys in pairs, each simultaneously turning their 4 keys.

[@Jet3ch]

Thanks hogwild

[@benwillis124]

Sadly, this is the most massive waste of human resources in the history of civilization. Our most brilliant minds, all our of resources, being expended on a system that if ever used, would be the end of humanity.