Subscribe to Nuclear Vault bit.ly/Subscrib... Thor The IRBM by Lookout Mountain Laboratory, 1352nd Photographic Group Publication date 1959
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@kurtwalters438611 ай бұрын
My father is the Air Force captain talking between 15:42 - 15:45. He received his master's from Stanford in 1956. He was promoted to captain and set to Los Angeles. He'd go on to work on the Atlas, Corona, YF-12a/SR-71, MOL, and F-15. He retired a Full Colonel in 1979.
@directcurrent57518 ай бұрын
THANKS to your Father
@goldgeologist53206 ай бұрын
Lucky man to have such great experiences to look back on and be proud.
@sid21125 ай бұрын
And I see you with a baby in the avatar, meaning that likely his integrity and prowess, some of those genes are coursing through humanity. This strengthens us all.
@jamesgrantham12645 ай бұрын
Best comment ever
@UjikoGaming5 ай бұрын
My condolences on your childhood 😅 I bet it was an A* upbringing though.
@linuspoindexter1062 жыл бұрын
Oh, to be an aerospace engineer in 1956!
@tmseh2 жыл бұрын
I'm STILL waiting for my damn flying car.
@ashman1872 жыл бұрын
If you have the new HP slide rule and know what it is for.. youre hired!
@jamesroets8002 жыл бұрын
That would have been the ultimate cool job.
@thats_my_comment2 жыл бұрын
Now! that's what you call hands on engineering
@lundsweden2 жыл бұрын
It would've been cool to make and play with wooden toys (mockups). Simulations in a computer are not as fun!
@indiosveritas Жыл бұрын
This is the only way to protect our precious bodily fluids.
@Triggernlfrl5 ай бұрын
Only zombies believe that human murder machines protect them...
@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn5 ай бұрын
Not watching OF is the best I can do
@volkerkalhoefer39732 ай бұрын
and the animated figures at the beginning, where the role models for Roger Ramjet😂😂
@thomthumbe2 жыл бұрын
My uncle worked as an OIC in charge of various systems at Vandenberg in those early days. He left with me his tool box, lots of stories of when they worked to get new and existing Missiles to fly properly. Many 24 hour days were spent. Frayed nerves. Little or no time off was allowed. It was hard work. There were a few neat stories that survived the years. He once told me that they would hold a cigarette with a pair of needle nose pliers…light the cigarette and then walk into one of the white clouds of LOX (a good long distance away from any equipment or a rocket) and watch the cig quickly vanish into flames. Today that would never be allowed.
@aloysiusbelisarius9992 Жыл бұрын
Of course, back then, LOX was the only missile fuel developed...and that was the key to the greatest handicap of those missiles, to include Thor: Their response time. Liquid oxygen-based rocket fuel was non-storable and very hazardous. It would take hours to prepare a missile for launch *after* a launch command was given, which gave the other side a chance for the element of surprise. The contemporary Soviet missiles suffered from the same handicap. Later, a storable liquid fuel was developed which gave the missiles that used it a better response time, though the hazard was still there (just think about the Titan-II that blew up in Arkansas in 1980, when a tech dropped a socket that breached the missile's fuel tank). At the same time, they developed solid propellants for other models of missiles (think Minuteman and the later Peacekeeper), which really served the purpose of improving response time and mitigating the preparation hazards. But I digress. Regarding Thor, from accounts and footage I had seen of that missile, it was dubious at best, marred with extreme difficulties in both its development and its deployment. When fired, there seemed to be a 50/50 chance of it blowing up *on the ground.*
@dougshadrick977611 ай бұрын
I just read your comment and you know why they wouldn't allow something like that with the lox is because this country has turned into a bouch of pussy and whinps
@rtqii2 ай бұрын
@@aloysiusbelisarius9992 It was a V-2 clone test for American aerospace engineers, build us a better longer range V-2 and this is what they came up with. It was a good training program.
@aloysiusbelisarius99922 ай бұрын
@@rtqii Well, no debate there, it was an evolving science; and Thor/Atlas/Redstone were just part of that evolution.
@Vulture17382 жыл бұрын
Military projects now: Congress fights for 2 years After 5 years company says they need more money After 8 years congress says it's too expensive Project final finishes with 2 units produced Project is never put into mass production
@WhitefolksT2 жыл бұрын
We'd get better results if impeding nuclear holocaust and being the victim of an effective preemptive strike was on the table. Nowadays...no one's worried about that, they don't see it as credible or they have awesome bunkers and don't GAF.
@jjtimmins12032 жыл бұрын
Yet ppl always make money on it
@russguffee66612 жыл бұрын
You left out the corrupt politicians and their oligarch buddies getting rich........
@scottmattern4822 жыл бұрын
It could be that the only projects we get to hear about are the failures. I'd like to think we have a handful of secret aircraft/weapon systems that have been developed in the last 10 years.
@FlabbyBro5 ай бұрын
RIP Zumwalt
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
Yes you can see ICBMs thousands of miles down their launch trajectory, in the Twilight evening. For some reason lots of ICBMs were launched from Vandenberg, Ca. In the evening. It was mesmerizing!
@miguelcastaneda72362 жыл бұрын
Remember late 1960s when they fired the atomic cannon straight up and it left that florescent trail in sky going up....and going down
@TheWizardGamez6 ай бұрын
Vandenburg is both far away from most of humanity and has a retrograde/polar arc. So… it fits many more of the launch conditions. Also… if a rocket fails. There’s only America from Cali to hawaii to pick up any high tech super classified stuff
@miguelcastaneda72575 ай бұрын
Remember mid 1960s when they fired the atomic Canon vertically..just find out how high it would go it left a flourscent trail going up could be seen in Arizona where we were
@patricia13332 жыл бұрын
I will say this, I am always very bemused by the cartoons the US armed forces used to include in basically all of the these movies… especially loved the smarmy smirk that the drum-headed contractors head. Eisenhower would have been hopping mad at the military industrial complex smirks…
@pamike48732 жыл бұрын
In the mid-50s, that was high-tech animation.
@goshlikkrudbahr5109 Жыл бұрын
It's a small IRBM after all...
@turtek125 ай бұрын
The same Eisenhower who created the MIC in the first place by centering US defense policy around nuclear weapons? The only reason he complained about the MIC in his farewell speech was because Kennedy and Johnson hammered him as soft on defense after Sputnik; he did it out of spite, not conviction.
@Superkuh22 жыл бұрын
I love how they have the guys they're interviewing "snap" their heads to the camera direction starting at @4:07
@redhammer57832 жыл бұрын
I know right lol wtf was that
@zekezero123452 жыл бұрын
You just don't see that enough these days 🤣
@matthewmartin57632 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of those old dating videos.
@robertbelcher50682 жыл бұрын
We need at least five people to read this six line script. ok
@nivlacyevips2 жыл бұрын
It’s a very Tim and Eric-esque style of filming.
@dennissvitak64532 жыл бұрын
This missile was placed right on the Soviet border, in Turkey. This scared the hell out of the Soviets, and they retaliated by placing missiles in Cuba, and damn near started World War 3. A year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US removed the Thor (and Jupiter) missiles in Turkey. Only fair..and some say this was the agreement to end the Cuba crisis.
@jackdough81642 жыл бұрын
Yea I love how America always portrayed the soviets as the aggressors there, yet even as a commie hater like I am I don’t see how they couldn’t see how and why the soviets wouldn’t do something in retaliation.
@hushpuppykl2 жыл бұрын
So … the real cause of the Cuban missile crisis is clear. The Soviets were threatened but they cannot place the same threat in return to ensure there is a deterrent. 🙄
@dennissvitak64532 жыл бұрын
@@hushpuppykl - In a word, yes. Specifically, the Jupiter missiles in Turkey, quite close to the Soviet border.
@SabaDhutt Жыл бұрын
That's right. JFK asked the Russians to keep the deal secret so he doesn't look "soft on Commies".
@PRH123 Жыл бұрын
In reality it was not the “cuban” missile crisis, it was the Turkish missile crisis…. when we studied this incident in high school of course the fact of the atlas ICBMs in Turkey was never mentioned…
@bboucharde Жыл бұрын
Nuclear Vault: This is an excellently produced documentary. Thanks for sharing this!
@adaiku5 ай бұрын
The engineering, effort, pace of advances that went in to producing items like these was awesome. Despite that, I find the matter of fact and almost nonchalant way that the deployment of weapons that would almost certainly end humanity as we know it is talked about in this 'cartoon' to be bone chilling.
@eddiegonzalez90832 жыл бұрын
Imagine being a aerospace engineer in 2022, things u could never imagine, air force vet, unbelievable
@chanceklippstein2 жыл бұрын
Love these videos. Always interesting.
@Livinlivin8362 жыл бұрын
Looking at the world from the northern poles makes us and eurasia seem a lot closer than I thought we were….. oceans apart is what I always thought about eurasia. It almost looks like we’re one country from this point of view. Awesome documentary.
@goldgeologist53206 ай бұрын
Guess you did not have access to a globe in life.
@krashlyboo2 жыл бұрын
Epic snap-to at 4:18....total Blue Steel Magnum skill
@WhitefolksT2 жыл бұрын
Had to see a chiropractor after that joint there lol!!
@darklynoon68472 жыл бұрын
Back in the good ole days when military briefings were done with a cartoon….lol
@1traphouse5 ай бұрын
4:09 the men doing the “Look-At-The-Camera-When-It’s-Your-Turn-To-Speak” gave me a little giggle 😂
@humphrey49765 ай бұрын
It’s nice that these are coming back now. What a time to be alive.
@TheGrindcorps5 ай бұрын
Oh what a relief it is 😅
@Martin-sr8yv2 жыл бұрын
amazing. The map at the beginning explains the launches well. If you don't see the projection on a map, you think it crosses the entire Atlantic when it passes over Canada.
@michaelbruns4492 жыл бұрын
Could you put in a time for when your talking about?
@rtqii2 ай бұрын
The W49 warhead for the Thor, Atlas, Jupiter, and Titan I ballistic missiles was a W28 Y1 warhead (B28 nuclear bomb) with internal power systems removed. This had a yield between 1.1 and 1.4 mt.
@rixille2 жыл бұрын
Really cool to see how engineers used to design things before software came along.
@michaelbruns4492 жыл бұрын
Totally...
@alitlweird11 ай бұрын
Slide rules, drafting tables, and good old fashioned brains. 📐 ✏️ 📝 🧠
@jimsvideos720111 ай бұрын
The expression "one-of" (not one-off) is a product of that time; the engineer draws something and sends the print down to the shop with a note reading, "make me one of these and we'll see if fits."
@beck42182 жыл бұрын
Delivered the W49 (1.1-1.45mt). Amazing.
@dominicseanmccann6300 Жыл бұрын
Cheers. Just going to ask that. Not a ' bad' yield 1.45 mt, tops. They were strategic then!
@tomblah Жыл бұрын
10:47 love the comparison of an ICBM nuclear weapon being compared to a toddler taking his first steps!
@Mujangga2 жыл бұрын
Man, why can't the military give us cartoons and head-swinging super close-up personnel nowadays?
@blackbird_actual2 жыл бұрын
The Cult of the PowerPoint has taken over
@prjndigo2 жыл бұрын
Government Contractor Cartoons lower morale.
@nigel9002 жыл бұрын
I agree. The Millennial loves nothing more than cartoons and copious amounts of CGI. (served with Hot Pockets and Mountain Dew of course…)
@manletopia48012 жыл бұрын
@@nigel900 The boomer sitting and whines about the generation they raised and blame everyone else for their incompitence
@nigel9002 жыл бұрын
@@manletopia4801 It’s Gen-X, dingus. Stop your whining and learn your abc’s…
@lookoutforchris2 жыл бұрын
The cartoon contractors look... merchant like
@dondouglass64155 ай бұрын
My father whom, as a person, was an assxxole... worked on Thor in the RAF and served during the Cuban missile crisis in Driffield east Yorkshire. He told stories of how they constantly kept the state of the missile ready for launch during the said crisis. I was ten months old at the time and therefore if it had gone hot... would have been a dead baby.
@calbob7502 жыл бұрын
As you may recall the Cuban Missile Crisis, engineered by Russia’s Khrushchev, came to an end after the US removed these Thor IRBMs from Turkey.
@paintnamer6403 Жыл бұрын
Those were Jupiter IRBMs very close designs. Russians did drive a fair bargain.
@streamer_services5 ай бұрын
Yes.....lets not ever have to hear that sound out of anger and let peace remain.....
@goshlikkrudbahr5109 Жыл бұрын
Greatest aerospace industrial film EVER!
@keithwendl83282 жыл бұрын
Amazing! To think Chevrolet was in the middle of the tri 5 chevys when this missile was in development!
@rixille2 жыл бұрын
Looks like there is one briefly seen in this video too. Look at 14:04
@prof2yousmithe4442 жыл бұрын
This was a great video! Than you for posting it!!!!
@maysammirzakhalili48622 жыл бұрын
It's unbelievable but super happy 😁 video !!! Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@jamesroets8002 жыл бұрын
Cool video! Great information. I had always heard about the Thor being a dud - but it had its own successes. Then it was sacrificed for 'world peace' during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I didn't know that the IRBM, ICBM, SRBM's each coincided with the various types of aircraft used for nuclear deterrence. Thanks for posting this.
@MrTmac9k2 жыл бұрын
Thor was no dud, it was the beginning of a LONG line of boosters. From Thor-Able came Thor-Delta, which eventually became the Delta.
@jimeditorial2 жыл бұрын
Jupiter was withdrawn from Turkey as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
@silmarian2 жыл бұрын
Thor and its descendants have been used to power hundreds of satellites into space, though it's finally being wound down after over 50 years.
@neiloflongbeck57052 жыл бұрын
Those Thor missiles based in the UK would have been duds if the Cuban missile crisis hadn't ended when it did as the UK was running out of liquid oxygen.
@jimeditorial2 жыл бұрын
@@neiloflongbeck5705 by the fall of 1962, Atlas was fully deployed, so I'm not sure that the inability to launch all the floors would have made much difference if war had started worldwide.
@DJSockmonkeyMusic5 ай бұрын
4:33 the dynamic staging! Dutch angles! Someone went to film school!
@SabaDhutt Жыл бұрын
They did it in only 50 days! And in less than 3 years it was operational overseas. Amazing. The optimism and can do attitude...we desperately need it back.
@mughug9616 Жыл бұрын
Clearly Lockheed Martin were not involved.
@Istandby6666 ай бұрын
I've watched documentaries on all this stuff my whole life. My biological father was an Air Force pilot. I spent from 1984 to 1992 around Edwards Air Force Base. Our biological father worked at Edwards Air Force Base and Groom Lake aka Area 51. Growing up in the shadows of the Above Top Secret Clearance world gave me a great life.
@runedolph Жыл бұрын
I have some general question about all these fantastic material. Who was it made for once? Who had to know all this by watching the movies except everyone already involved? Or was is documentation for the future? And, when did all this become approved to release? Are they still making these kinds of movies with todays military project for some educational or other purposes? Cheers
@chauvinemmons Жыл бұрын
No we have a new program for education Joe BlowMe not our president and Obama the lying cheating scumbaggery yes folks this is what treasonous evil-doers look like. And by their actions all should know their crimes.
@directcurrent57518 ай бұрын
Cold War propaganda. This was shown in high schools, colleges, and recruitment.
@kaamos796 ай бұрын
That's a pretty quick and agile production process - 8 months from inception to first product. I wonder if we're able to do that anymore.
@Cyberspine5 ай бұрын
It depends a lot on how high priority a project is. In the 1950's developing new nuclear delivery systems was at the top of the priority list for the US. In the 2020's, the covid vaccine was urgent, which is why it was also developed in a very short time.
@dugiejoness51972 жыл бұрын
2 years and 9 months, this is how long it took to develop a ballistic missile from idea to industry. No computers, no 3D printers, only paper and wooden models. But with the use of a completely new untested cryogenic fuel technology. Presently, this is how long it would take to develop this rejected reserve tank, provided that it was a development version.
@kunwardeepak50142 жыл бұрын
This channel is vault indeed
@MooseCall2 жыл бұрын
This is my new favourite channel.
@legitbeans90785 ай бұрын
No, you
@dfinlen2 жыл бұрын
CAREFULLY notice failure is a part of success. If you're not failing you're not learning. Yes, failure could be the personnel involved but not always.
@tonygarratt58322 жыл бұрын
Like Sherlock and deductive reasoning. In order to best determine what will succeed, we must establish with certainty what will fail.
@AlcharynMusic5 ай бұрын
Gotta love the 50s
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
I saw lots of Thor ICBMs launched at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in the early 1960s as a 11\12 year old! Interesting in only a few minutes they were thousands of miles down range over the Pacific ocean and could Still be seen.
@skateboardingjesus40062 жыл бұрын
What? Yes, you would be able to see them for quite some distance, but not that far. Even at the altitude of the ISS, you still wouldn't be able to see one at 1,000 miles down-range; never mind thousands of miles.
@bretthess63762 жыл бұрын
Thousands of miles in minutes? No. Even at Mach Two, that's about 1,200 MPH, c. twenty miles per minute.
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
You should look it up. The US Air Force listed the maximum speed for the original Thor that was listed at over 11,000 mph! iCBMs are incredibly fast. Currently, ICBMs lunched from the continental US can hit Moscow in about 25 minutes.
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
You can see man made satellites in orbit with the naked eye. You should try it. Apple has an app to help you. Look it up.
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
The fastest ICBM in current service is the LGM-30 Minuteman. The US Air Force lists it at over 17,000 mph
@erbe719 күн бұрын
Golden time of humanity❤
@FairyWeatherMan Жыл бұрын
"The first generation of Thor missiles were rushed into service, and design mistakes resulted in a 24% launch failure rate. The competing Jupiter missile saw more use, but both were quickly eclipsed by the Air Force's long range ICBM program, which could be fired from US soil. *By 1959, with the Atlas rocket well on its way to operational status, both Thor and Jupiter programs became obsolete as delivery vehicles*, yet continued to be built and deployed until 1963 for political reasons and to maintain aerospace industry employment. The missile's lasting legacy continued as the Thor and later Delta families of space launch vehicles used boosters derived from the initial Thor missile, and continued on into the 21st century"
@danielcruz83472 жыл бұрын
As Thor..Gigantor was also originally created Sentinel of wood....
@dannywalters23652 жыл бұрын
That was so cool. Lost in space. Too.prince planet not so and astro boy excellent
@williamedwards86945 ай бұрын
Hammer of war, A marvel in piece.
@Flumphinator5 ай бұрын
They designed this thing in 7 weeks. With parallel bars, T-squares, clutch pencils, and slide rules. Not only that, but these engineers were contemporaneous with the guys who did Gemini and Apollo. They left a legacy that’s hard to follow.
@Frank-ki4nx5 ай бұрын
Mutually Assured Destruction was such an upbeat topic back in the day, it's like they are talking about it over breakfast cereal with the kids. I'm waiting for Walt Disney to chime in on explosive yields.
@yankeedoodle19634 ай бұрын
Sesame Street rendering of fallout shelter survival
@robertbelcher50682 жыл бұрын
Correction- "ballistic missile" does not mean "nuclear missile". You can use them to deliver cupcakes if you want.
@rixille2 жыл бұрын
In some retro-futurist world, i'm sure there is a bakery that uses ballistic missiles to deliver said cupcakes to customers all around the country.
@kennethprocak51765 ай бұрын
The launch facility areas still exist in Great Britain, no buildings just the concrete runways from the where storage shed locations too the launch location pad and exhaust trenches. Appears they had multiple missiles at each individual site.
@lundsweden2 жыл бұрын
Imagine if human beings were smart enough to invest in peace rather than war. It is always the other countries fault, yet we have never been without war for thousands of years!
@WhitefolksT2 жыл бұрын
Not poor peoples fault. Always the wealthy and power hungry, those most distanced from the horrors, that plunge humanity into suffering.
@chauvinemmons Жыл бұрын
In a world without Democrats or Communists peace would be the norm.
@t8z5h36 ай бұрын
Honestly we are at peace as long as we don't use these weapons, and if they are used it won't matter anyways.
@seanmcdonough88152 жыл бұрын
I live how they show as an example D.C. shoots a missed to Kansas!
@x_hibernia5 ай бұрын
I've a older brother and he's been in college for about 18 years and for all that couldn't understand the word ballistic, he kept thinking it mend self guided instead of it being like a bullet or artillery shell and follows a simple arch pattern, he kept thinking it had to have some fancy computer to fly
@rumpstatefiasco2 жыл бұрын
This video is as comforting as Mac & Cheese. I don't care: I miss The Can Do America of yore.
@uberkloden2 жыл бұрын
The economic woes we feel now are connected to vast amounts of resources, USA commits towards war.
@rumpstatefiasco2 жыл бұрын
@@uberkloden yes and no: since there’s no shortage of fake entirely conceptual money on demand, for all sorts of elite agendas, I can only conclude that the elite WANT vast numbers of folks in poverty.
@__________74832 жыл бұрын
0:42 "An undisclosed number of 4 Missile units"
@kitkat96482 жыл бұрын
Thor
@__________74832 жыл бұрын
@@kitkat9648 behold, I am a hard of hearing
@davidfifer47292 жыл бұрын
"...Thor missile units..."
@__________74832 жыл бұрын
@@davidfifer4729 behold, I am deaf
@tylernichols67685 ай бұрын
I heard it like that too.
@pankajpankaj70412 жыл бұрын
Good to see thats older documentary film about development of IRBM , they built at deadline time .
@ericwilliams5385 ай бұрын
Wow, the differences in thinking back then compared to now. This is sort of horrifying when you really get down to thinking what these missiles were designed to do!!
@kevinegan13592 жыл бұрын
A thor derived delta 1 rocket launched canadian satellite Alouettes 1 and 2 from California in1962
@swingtag1041 Жыл бұрын
Amazing We're all still alive
@CowboyCree632 жыл бұрын
It's sad, to think of the absolutely amazing advances we made in the early and mid 1900's, with machines that not only performed incredibly well, but many STILL do today, and most were invented and made in just months, while today, it takes YEARS if not decades to produce machines that barely work more than a few years without requiring rebuilding or replacing, cost overruns are damn near required, and the final product often doesn't even meet the original requirements!!
@NavyVet49552 жыл бұрын
In fairness the tech then vs now is entirely different. Let’s just take the missile systems. In the 50’s and 60’s accuracy was measured in miles, today it’s measured in meters. Yes old mechanical systems lasted however they are only so good.
@spymaster95892 жыл бұрын
things are designed bad deliberately today.. so that way after one thing breaks you buy another
@miguelcastaneda72362 жыл бұрын
Always remember these are built by the lowest bidder/,subcontractor....we used to make parts for Ford and Xerox....their weapons and space divisions
@jamesharding34592 жыл бұрын
You see the failures because they make the tabloid front pages (and most of them are fabricated, in any case). You don't hear about the successes because "US Air Force continues to improve technology you'd never be able to understand on time and on budget" doesn't generate clicks.
@CowboyCree632 жыл бұрын
@@jamesharding3459 probably because the Air Force hasn't completed ANY technological advance on time or anywhere close to on budget since the 70's. Hell, that almost certainly WOULD make headlines. As for advances we couldn't understand, you must be speaking for yourself.
@CrownOfGoldCompleatSacrifice_25 ай бұрын
We live you guys
@simonboland Жыл бұрын
Interesting the Douglas company was notified on Dec 23, 1955 and it signs the contract 5 days later. Pretty quick turnaround. No stuffing around there.
@well-blazeredman61875 ай бұрын
You can still see, on Google, the footprints of Thor launch sites at a number of former RAF airfields in England.
@bretthess63762 жыл бұрын
Crazy shit done by crazy people. How we've gone so long without nuclear disaster is a miracle.
@miguelcastaneda72362 жыл бұрын
Ahh theres still some missing nukes off east coast..depth to great
@calbob7502 жыл бұрын
This video is calling these missiles a deterrent. At the time our major cities also had a DEFENSE system against Russian bombers.Nike and Nike Ajax. Seems there was a lag between development of offense missiles and the needed defensive missiles. “Star Wars”? You may find scattered remnants of Nike sites around some cities. Cleveland for example has a large concrete Block House that housed computers that were part of this defensive system. The military personnel barracks are still visible on the property.
@Splattle1015 ай бұрын
The introduction gives a terrific exposition of how the US and its allies had the USSR completely encircled and vulnerable to nuclear attack from nearly any point of the compass. It's instructive to remember that until the USSR launched Sputnik they had no credible way of hitting the continental US. Even after that, the number of Soviet ICBMs available was miniscule. The Cold War in the US in the 1950s was a massive beat up.
@kennethprocak51765 ай бұрын
You are a fool, what about the forced annexation of half of the European countries Russia held at end of WW2, Russians enslaved war ravaged countries. You think the hate and suspicion of Russia is a fantasy? And now Putins doing it again!
@n.b.p.davenport70665 ай бұрын
The first thing you seen I need that
@oldpain7625 Жыл бұрын
Amazing
@cjheaford2 жыл бұрын
1:25 Why is Washington nuking Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Columbus?
@trevortaylor55012 жыл бұрын
Sputnik oct 1957.
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
The current fastest ICBM is the USA LGM-30 Minuteman. The US Air Force lists its speed at over 17, 000 mph. Yep many times the speed of sound. Thats why ICBMs can travel intercontinental distances in minutes, not hours.
@raywhitehead7302 жыл бұрын
Yep! And current accuracy is listed as a 800 ft circle after a 5,000 mile flight!!
@adamrobson802 жыл бұрын
Funny were they turn there heads to talk n make it look more thorough 🔥
@johnharrison67452 жыл бұрын
THE MIGHTY THOR! 😉😁
@phil20_205 ай бұрын
"An undisclosed number of four..." 😅
@goldgeologist53206 ай бұрын
And then came Minuteman! Still in service! Our most modern ICBM Peacekeeper is gone! And even it would be very old now!
@kennethprocak51765 ай бұрын
The Minuteman missiles are now series3. If you want to believe the capabilities have reduced because it makes you feel better, you just do that! If needed they will fly. 1 missile with 4 reentry warheads minimum. Submarines carry half of US nuclear arsenal if you believe releases.
@rdallas815 ай бұрын
I love how the soviets were able to achieve closed cycle technology as the west said it was "impossible".
@xandervk23713 ай бұрын
The soviets had very hard time mastering solid fuel and digital controls, something the US had in the Minuteman and Polaris from early 1960s.
@bryanh1944FBH11 ай бұрын
One year and nine months from concept to successful flight .... difficult to believe that they were able to do that without Six Sigma training! ha ha
@iitzfizz Жыл бұрын
04:18 This guys been wating his whole life for this
@legitbeans90785 ай бұрын
Lol
@dashiellgillingham45795 ай бұрын
4:08 - 4:52 Someone thought they were being very cool with that sequence.
@CharlesCo9184 ай бұрын
The first generation of Thor missiles were rushed into service, and design mistakes resulted in a 24% launch failure rate.
@Peacekeeper-1185 ай бұрын
Wait, why doesnt this missile have a pointy cone? Thats freakin aladeen.
@gerrynightingale90452 жыл бұрын
*From the 'thumbnail' I was thinking this would have something to do with the 'HARP' development of 'rifled-bore missile launching' or specialized 'nuke artillery' fired from a 105 barrel or perhaps something larger* _________ *If I remember right that was scrapped when it was found a 'nuke' had very little effect on tanks and artillery and conventional weapons worked just as well or better on a 'mass of troops & vehicles*
@reelDonaldTrumpExperience Жыл бұрын
Delicious Bratwurst of Peace!
@silverismoney5 ай бұрын
Dateline!
@bigredactionsportsstuff12455 ай бұрын
2028: FIA: sorry boys, these engines are gonna be air only now, make it work.
@lahoku9 ай бұрын
Dateline WOULD NEVER have cinematography like they once did. They would literally go into frenzy of WOKENESS if they presented themselves in 2023 like they did during the 50’s. Ah when you were proud for your country & we’re allowed to be so. God Bless America.
@donniebrookeQ179 ай бұрын
In 1957 Valiant Thor Landed In Virginia.
@jwenting2 жыл бұрын
and all those program management lessons have been forgotten. They've now been doing "preliminary work" on a replacement for the Minuteman 3 for over a decade and still there aren't even blueprints, just powerpoint presentations.
@SliceofLife77772 жыл бұрын
It will be difficult to make a missle that's cheaper to maintain, faster to launch, or more accurate than the solid fueled Minute Man III. Incremental upgrades to replacement missles seems more likely. But yes, studies are a necessary evil. The early ICBM-IRBM systems had to go up quick, we were trailing the Soviets in ICBM technology. Minute Man on the other hand, is a mature system, replacing 60+ years of evolution would not be easy, maybe not practical. However, other defense contractors would love to get funded for the job.
@davidkelley53822 жыл бұрын
No Russian Commie Rockets 🚀 or propaganda driving us to take good enough. Now instead of a military threat the have “useful idiots” dropping Kremlin propaganda straight from our TV sets & until 2021 from the Whitehouse. Disgusting 🤮
@jamesharding34592 жыл бұрын
That is because this is a completely different topic. The Thor was the first of its kind that the US developed, they _had_ to make a crash program -- which, if you will recall, failed over a dozen tests consecutively. The Minuteman is a mature system with decades of iterative development. Replacing it will be a matter of research into what areas even can be improved upon and deciding how. Consider a simplified example: The first airfoil was revolutionary and simple because it was the first: A simple flat plane at an angle. A wing on a modern aircraft will be subject to calculations to determine the behavior at every single point on it, at every conceivable speed and pressure it will encounter in flight. Is it any surprise, then, that the first can be made by a craftsman in his garage in a day and the second will take years of study by trained engineers?
@booklover67532 жыл бұрын
Actual status is classified anyway. Who knows?
@jwenting2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesharding3459 The problem with Minuteman is that it can't be upgraded further, it's running out of of time before it's impossible to operate safely if at all (solid rocket motors and everything else has a shelf life, at some point they become more expensive to maintain than replacing the entire unit, and that point is probably long past), they're not going to be able to penetrate enemy defenses which have been massively improved since the 1970s when the Minuteman was put into service, etc. etc. I've worked on such dated systems (though not defense related) myself, and that's the hard reality of them. What's also a hard reality is that quite often it's politically impossible to get funding for replacing them, but quite possible to get 10 times that amount of funding per year to keep them going for another year by patching and polishing things so they at least look good on paper.
@Battleneter5 ай бұрын
Date Line 2024, Elon Musk is leading the way by doing what we were doing in the late 1950's with very much similar technology, we have come so far !
@michaelanderson30965 ай бұрын
Short range - nuclear artillery shells 😮
@chrisyarbrough785 Жыл бұрын
What happened too us.these people were awesome
@kreggeason494 Жыл бұрын
Geez this was in the 50's wonder what they got now huh .
@kingofaesthetics94079 ай бұрын
IRBMs fell out of fashion quite a while ago. The main ballistic missile of the USAF is currently the Minuteman III, that'll be replaced by the Sentinel in the 2030s.
@uberkloden2 жыл бұрын
Yes, some problems in Air Force.
@keithmoore53062 жыл бұрын
ordered to deployed in 4 years hell today it takes 4 years to figure out what they want it to do!!
@franksizzllemann56282 ай бұрын
I've seen that sticker! 6:53
@jacobsaysnotodrugs5 ай бұрын
Thank you. God bless american enginuity
@universalexports61195 ай бұрын
No mention of Werner Von Braun????
@dunkelgelb77445 ай бұрын
1:08 - Why was/is the US government contemplating launching a nuclear weapon at the Midwest?