Tonopah Test Range B61 Flight Test in Slow Motion

[@johnwatson3948]

B61 - first produced 1968 - current variant B61-12 - current cost $28M each -number built 3,155 - variable blast yield 0.3 to 340 kilotons - manufactured Pantex Plant Texas.

[@wangtulong2066]

These men and woman have been improving and keeping the Nuclear Stockpile for over 70 years, with a perfect safety record. Bravo, Sandia!!! 👏👏👏👏🙋‍♂️😉🦅🇺🇸

[@jacobjochem]

Thanks for making these videos.

[@mhamma6560]

@2:15 Sandia uses VLC!!! Great vid guys, thanks for the eye candy!

[@hfuy8005]

So does SpaceX, I think. They're just using it to view VoIP streams.

[@johnthomson8332]

what is vlc

[@shmookins]

Everything is so clean and neat and professional. Wow.

[@StreuB1]

As an engineer, these latest videos hit all the feels. I would give blood to work on projects bigger than my personal self. Working at Sandia must be amazing.

[@iamtyzed]

Brian Streufert yeah it would be amazing

[@darkquaesar2460]

What constitutes as a project bigger then your personal self? I mean c'mon it can't be anything they work on at Sandia.

[@dougdugan3358]

26 years at the place was really just that, amazing.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

They successfully demonstrated the existence of gravity. 👏

[@Erik-rp1hi]

So the green bricks are lead or steel and you are checking for..................? The tape measurement to that scanning device tells me the trace elements did not leak out from the impact. Something tells me this was the reason for the test.

[@malanis]

What's the deal with the neutron detectors around the impact zone? I wonder if they are testing the survivability and proper firing of the neutron generators inside the warhead after a laydown delivery?

[@johnthomson8332]

that's definitely what it is.

[@johnmarshall2228]

Re: 4:50 . . . 1) The last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark 2) The last line of The Maltese Falcon

[@tom_p]

2:55 Interesting that they used a Lakenheath based Strike Eagle for the test.

[@aibpresto]

Oh yeah, how interesting. Wonder why that was, you’d think it would make more sense to use an F-15 from Nellis.

[@alexanderf8451]

Why is there no proper description in the video itself?

[@wollinger]

Couldn't they explain what was tested, right??

[@Feintgames]

Basically, they are testing the reliability of gravity dropped nuclear bombs, specifically the B61 Mod 12. The tail fin guidance package is a 1-2 billion dollar development program. The overall B61 dev program is an 11 billion dollar development program. The goal of tests like these is basically what you see in this video: perfect nose-down impacts with in-tact stabilizers. At the end of the video, you can see the failures of previous tail fin designs: broken fin stabilizers, broken housings, etc. When you're using a nuclear weapons with a low yield of less than 50 kilotons, where it lands is very important, especially in Europe where battle lines are anticipated to be close and rapidly evolving. Or if your target is a carrier battle group, the targeting systems need to be able to be launched close and steerable since that's a small moving target. Since the deploying aircraft are supersonic, the launch systems and targeting systems need to be super accurate for the weapon to say hit a Russian target vs. a NATO or friendly Asian target. This Mod 12 program is meant to develop tactical nuclear weapons with a 20 year shelf life. So the engineers want to get this right. They want to know that the system will work in all conditions. It does beg the question of whether or not nuclear deployment is a politically reasonable or survivable move for a sitting president. Trump would do it because he doesn't care about American isolation. But I don't think any of the Bush family presidents or other hawkish Republican presidents would have carried out the use of nuclear weapons. And you have to question recent internet attacks by the Russian government against the US. It could be a way to harden hawks in Congress to fund additional highly expensive programs like this as a way of destabilizing the US financially, the way the US destabilized the USSR with the Star Wars program. Attack a country, cause that country to spend more assets on defense, create paranoia, the country stops developing infrastructure, cuts ties with allies... It's a strategy that works and is working for Russia not just with the current Trump administration but even before that. I believe this program was started in 2013. Info source from Wikipedia so some of this info may be inaccurate.

[@kylesenior]

This isn't a flight test of the Mod 12. Wrong tail fin and the Mod 12 doesn't have a parachute.

[@marauderhot]

I have seen better drops when an egg fell off my kitchen counter.

[@phdindeceit9450]

Duct tape, even works on nukes!

[@jahway3625]

Ps5 is coming out with 8k

[@OldDesertRacer]

At Sandia, all of the duct tape is yellow. That's the secret to testing nuclear weapons! 😃

[@willdoe3984]

Yep...thats why we can shoot one anywhere in the world!

[@illumination101]

They got that special whole sheet type

[@calebpoemoceah3087]

Farm works physics department

[@virginialoverproductions]

0:54 The government wasn't lying THIS time!

[@stevent7590]

Nice job with the video editing! Love the insight of the last 2 videos. Keep them coming!!

[@al465]

Fake.

[@darkquaesar2460]

This was unsatisfying.

[@user-yx3bq7tu4i]

Extremely primitive. We can do better.

[@SlingSalsa]

very anti-climactic

[@-danR]

Sandia did something. I guess.

[@wewd]

It's a simulated drop of a nuclear weapon. In a real combat drop of a live weapon, there would be a selectable yield of anywhere from 0.3 to 400 kilotons. You don't really want to see such a drop in your lifetime.

[@yee3626]

Is that place is a super secret area?

[@robbygee2539]

You can go there and watch them launch missiles... They have public viewing days.

[@Altner1]

Ce n’est pas une zone secrète

[@JB91710]

They Say it worked but Did It?

[@BillDerBerg]

What'd be more impressive would be the ability to detonate the enemy's nuclear arsenal while they're still sitting in their planes, silos and subs. Missiles and rockets would be obsolete.

[@BillDerBerg]

Oh did I mention knocking out all of their ability to use computer communication and navigation systems. Throw them back into the Stone Age with one well-placed electromagnetic pulse.

[@murraymi1]

@@BillDerBerg They will need a machine that goes "Ping" to do that.

[@jfan4reva]

Yesterday, Iranian centifuges, tomorrow....

[@ThompPL1]

2:23 . . . No one ever says Why they need Neutron Detectors for a Dead Drop ?! . . . Everything but the "physics package" ?

[@nomadmarine0331]

That's 10 minutes of my life I can't get back.

[@rhinomike59]

And I used to load the real one's 30 year's ago. F-111s

[@MilicOjler]

Mike Tatjes I wish you all the worst in your life

[@MikeM275]

Loved the F (FB) 111...The Aardvark, one of the coolest looking planes every made.

[@carljungblut3548]

@@MikeM275 F-111F

[@dougball328]

In 1975 I did a mission manual for the F-111F - many different mission profiles and assorted B-61 bomb loads. I probably nuked the entire planet in that manual!

[@dougball328]

@@MilicOjler Why? Not a single one was ever used in anger. Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine worked.

[@josephastier7421]

A good soundtrack would be Ratt, "Lay it Down".

[@josephastier7421]

hehe, yep

[@quintdasharkhunter5263]

talk about shooting blanks...geeesh

[@kevinjohnson8261]

Do they consider this a lay down weapon?

[@kylesenior]

It has a laydown fuzing mode.

[@mhamma6560]

Multiple fusing options....including lay-down.

[@josephastier7421]

Among other things.

[@6jonline]

That pointing and calling at 2:08....I think i'm in love with her....

[@justsaiyansteve]

Needs more duct tape

[@howiedewin3688]

"Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!"

[@jfan4reva]

Guess they'll need to retest! I was thinking cutting to a white screen just as the weapons touched ground might have been a nice touch....

[@JameBlack]

Top quality content!

[@Erik-rp1hi]

This is a cool little info graphic for us nobodies. Thanks. There is a F-105 Thunder Chief wreck in the Piutes next to China Lake ( the pilot ejected to safety). It had a telescoping device to get the nuke away from the airfame. They had problems with the bomb coming back up and hitting the plane. I know this fact from reading and there is a stickers on the mount for the telescope that tell the ground handling crew to "put special weapons lock in position B". We all know what a special weapon is. I wish I could had brought it out but I was on a dirt bike and was lazy. I regret it now. I did get the Artificial horizon indicator and dissected it. Made by Sperry and had 2 gyros in it. It was smashed pretty good.This was in the late 2000's

[@josephastier7421]

Eastbound and down.

[@doxielain2231]

If only we spent as much effort, talent, and treasure dealing with anthropogenic climate change as we do with weapons that should never be used... .

[@garyseven2798]

B-61s for PEKING .

[@jamesharris184]

I'm not even sure what I watched

[@johnthomson8332]

Well that was a fail, the rocket was a dud.

[@dougball328]

An inert nuclear bomb, not a rocket.

[@steliotaspalioprosi974]

Nice symbol of the company like like oooo i remember thirt raix?national socialism?🥸 nice cover

[@beatmastertv_urbex]

coole sache

[@heraclitotriste]

Boom

[@SnowTiger45]

Well that was underwhelming.

[@LKWPETER]

185000

[@hypercomms2001]

There is One (!) test you would really want to do.... but thankfully for us you cannot........The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty must be a bummer for you.... but not for us.

[@wallywally1278]

LLC

[@patthompson7477]

Jjnkjh

[@valshaev1145]

Greetings from Canada! Thanks to US forces for our nuclear umbrella! So small devices, so powerful.. I wanna work there.

[@maxno1964]

As if the north wind did not break your umbrella.

[@valshaev1145]

Don't worry, we are used for the North, kremlebotina.

[@maxno1964]

I'm a Kremlin? You're a fool?

[@al465]

Fake.

[@luisenriquez2712]

The average den pharmacodynamically warn because cloakroom identically stretch modulo a juvenile railway. vacuous, white tv

[@robertgutheridge9672]

I look at them using a boom truck to load the test projectile after recovery and I think you spoiled crybaby government employees rather than a couple of you men growing balls and picking up a and each you used a boom truck to load it. I know you wouldn't want to get dirty or anything. Any one in the civil workforce can tell you that is not how recovery would happen

[@099Evgen]

Сколько наиглупейших проектов , просто ужас, и всё за деньги налогоплатильщиков.

[@ishukshin]

Wow. That's much more impressive, than Putin's cartoons. Real work.

[@horrorukro8915]

Hide under your bed. You'll be fine.

[@maxno1964]

Hollywood has always done better films. But reality is not a movie.

[@josephgeis6641]

I hate them but we must have them. I am Neutral hope they are never used.

[@chungweiwang3718]

The jittery separated concordantly present because exchange sporadically fix down a neighborly capital. defiant, incredible disease

[@jahway3625]

BS. Only a b-52 can carry a playload of a nuke. Propaganda for the troops.

[@Brokenrocktail]

umm.... no dude. That's not how it works at all. Which btw, the aircraft the dropped the two bombs on japan were B29s not B52s and couldnt carry even half the bomb load as a B52, so your logic is just plain wrong.

[@Antares2]

Jahsher Sha: Go home, you are drunk.