The Cold War was an era of relentless innovation in the pursuit of dominance, producing weapons so deadly they remain formidable even today. This video explores four groundbreaking creations that defined an age of tension and still command respect for their lethal potential:
First, we delve into the MBT-70, a tank born from an unprecedented collaboration between the United States and West Germany, designed to outmatch any Soviet armored vehicle of the time.
Then, we investigate the Soviet Sunburn missile, a supersonic sea-skimming threat that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation.
Next, we examine the Davy Crockett, a shockingly compact nuclear weapon that placed unparalleled power in the hands of small military units during the height of global tension.
Finally, we unveil the M65 Atomic Cannon, an artillery piece that defined Cold War firepower with its ability to hurl nuclear warheads across vast distances.
Each of these weapons tells a story of ingenuity, fear, and the thin line between peace and destruction.
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Passing the vibe ✔️ gunna watch this when I hit the 🛏️
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) is just a theory and some insane warmongers want to test for real!
Hadn’t heard the of the MBT tank but very interesting⚛️❤
Mate, your music is too loud. It overpowers your voice.
Gotta love the budget increases of the military industrial complex 🤦♂️
The Davy Crockett was an interesting weapon. Development began at the same time that Walt Disney televised his mini-series on Davy Crokett. I was a high school student in 1972 when I found out from C B Colby's 1961 "Our Space Age Army–Weapons, Vehicles and Aircraft of the Modern U. S. Army" (color photo on the cover and page 19 had a short paragraph) and as a know-it-all kid I was sure that colonels and generals wouldn't trust a sergeant and two PFC's with an atomic bazooka. Under battlefield conditions that might be two privates. Had to be a psychological operation–somewhere I had learned of the fake "atomic hand grenade," a bulky but lightweight dummy grenade thrown in the direction of an emplaced nuclear explosion simulator. Later I learned more about the Davy Crockett–20-ton TNT equivalent (the Nagasaki bomb was 1000 times as powerful) with an enhanced radiation warhead that sent out a strong EMP signal to disrupt or destroy electronic equipment as well as kill enemy personnel through radiation out past a mile and a half. This video stated that there were two versions–one with a range of 2.5 miles and the lightweight edition for the two Airborne divisions and the mountain division had a range of 1.25 miles. The three-soldier team had a supply of six warheads and were solely responsible for securing their Davy Crockett system.
The nuclear 155mm shell fired from M109 self-propelled howitzers and from towed155mm artillery pieces replaced the Davy Crockett–with much improved control over the warheads and a security detachment organic to the gun battery.
In 2007 while getting certified as a range safety officer for the Nevada Army National Guard I became a believer because there were still range cleanup and decontamination procedures for the Davy Crockett practice rounds. The training warheads had a radioactive component that was used to score the gunners–scoring was done by Geiger counter. The training warhead exploded and the wind dispersed the radioactive cloud. I saw an inert mock-up on display in National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, NM.
The real purpose of the Davy Crockett was funding–just like Atomic Annie. Letting the Air Force have a monopoly on atomic warfare meant that the Air Force would get all the money. It got worse for the underfunded Army when the Navy developed nuclear punch, too.
Thanks, I learned something from this video today and was reminded of the Davy Crocket. Imagine an 18-year-old private with six small atomic warheads and that is, I believe, a major reason why the Davy Crockett was withdrawn from service. The replacement by longer-range 155mm atomic artillery shells and later by smart artillery shells provided better weapon security and greater effectiveness.
Haven't watched this, but it looks like the first "N man pad."
Got to love tactical Nuclear bombs.
Oooh a red circly thing in the thumb nail. I better watch!
Should have used the Davy Crockett in Vietnam.
I think the small yeild nuke was used this year when Ukraine decided to press and attack into russia. Russia made it pretty clear they would use a nuke if Ukraine did that and the whole media ignored it within 48hrs. They say it was a ammo dump that exploded with a 5 mile blast radius and the instant sun burning fires it set off. They will say im wrong but do your own research if you can even find the video (it was scrubbed within days but luckily screen captures exist and it is possible to find it on X. Look if you want.
The Davy Crokett was used in MGS 3 by Col Volgin.
My boss had been a special weapons officer in West Germany. He said the locals gated the M65 because it would take up the whole road in small towns. There was often claimed damage when the M65 went through towns.
they should of strapped the davey crocket to the AC130
The abandoned concept of the "Pentomic army" is fascinating and deserves a deep dive episode all its own! (The Pentomic army concept was an effort by the US to create a full scale all domain military capacity that could ideally survive and excel on a nuclear battlefield or an irradiated post full scale nuclear war)
I truly love these historical mini documentaries but it is really distracting when they talk about Kennedy era staff like Robert McNamara while, at time stamp 3:06 showing pictures of HARRY FU(KING TRUMAN, PRESIDENT FROM 1945 TO 1953. The authors must be from a parallel universe because their history sure doesn't match up with my history.
Damn!!! HARRY FU(KING TRUMAN snuck in again at timestamp 24:04 to scramble our history's timeline AGAIN!!!
What would happen if Ukraine dug up the American blueprints for the Davy Crockett, upsized it, a little bit bigger, and put it on a mobile launcher that was a drone?
Some of the visuals (such as the T-35s from early WW2 and T-34s) are not really appropriate to this part of history. And it would be worth describing the capabilities of the T-62 and T-64 vs the M60s.
November 5th, 2024. The day the doomsday clock hit 12:30 AM.
Atomic Annie weighed 86,500 TONS??? Did you even do the math to figure out that 86,500 tons is 173 MILLION POUNDS??? Somehow, I doubt that 173 MILLION POUNDS of iron could be slung into action in 15 minutes. Not to mention a 173 MILLION POUND behemoth rolling in a U.S. military parade without cutting deep ruts in a road paved with 1940's, 50's technology / asphalt??? Hitler's Autobahn couldn't have handled that and it was designed to move military equipment. AWW, C'mon, man. Get your $HIT together. At least make your BULL$HlT believable.
It's only in the last 5 to 10 years that the west is redeveloping upgrading their anti ship missile capabilities' with the stealth, smart, networked systems like the NSM/JSM Norwegian design, the LRASM and the 1000 mile Tomahawk block V cruise missiles.
In the past the west relied on the carrier fleets and Harpoon/Exocet type missiles of which were only distributed.
Now and in the not to distant future PRiSM inc 2 hypersonic missiles will have an anti ship capability with Japanese, South Korean and French new anti ship designs forthcoming.
This coming Cold War 2 has awoken the west and for every new anti ship missile/rocket/cruise missile design there is, these missiles also have an secondary anti surface land attack capability as well.
Who thought it was a good idea to give regular infantry this thing?
A classmate was in a tank during the Vietnam war . Lost a foot from a hit on the tank he was in. That's around 1968.
I don't find the looks of that missile to be futuristic. It looks more like 1950s-early 1960s, not early 1980s when it was built.