Did world war 3 just start?

[BugI02]

Well, shoot back - preferrably with an Apache

 

[printcraft]

Mexico has just declared war on the United States.



'US Border Patrol boat shot at from Mexican riverbank'

Those women and children coming across the border mean business.

 

[KG1]

Well, shoot back - preferrably with an Apache

Let’s get the Apachies to fight the Mexicans.

 

[BugI02]

Great, nuclear reaction powered ramjets on cruise missiles - the catastrophic failure of which detectably raised radioactivity levels in the west and contaminated the test area. If the explaination of the power system is accurate, just how hot does that reactor have to get to power the hypersonic expansion of the heated gases

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...plosion-involved-nuclear-isotope-power-source
Russia Admits Mysterious Missile Engine Explosion Involved A Nuclear 'Isotope Power Source'

 

[Leadeye]

Great, nuclear reaction powered ramjets on cruise missiles - the catastrophic failure of which detectably raised radioactivity levels in the west and contaminated the test area. If the explaination of the power system is accurate, just how hot does that reactor have to get to power the hypersonic expansion of the heated gases

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...plosion-involved-nuclear-isotope-power-source
Russia Admits Mysterious Missile Engine Explosion Involved A Nuclear 'Isotope Power Source'

The US looked into this years ago when everybody was trying to make a "nuclear airplane" so a couple of test reactors were built and tested before the idea was discarded. I think Ben Rich's book on the stealth fighter has a few pages on this.

 

[printcraft]

We were in the process of making one... a flying fallout factory.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

 

[Mikey1911]

See also the NB-36H, a Convair B-36 modified to test radiation shielding concepts for the proposed X-6, an aircraft intended to use a nuclear reactor as the heat source for four GE J-47 jet engines.

 

[BugI02]

See also the NB-36H, a Convair B-36 modified to test radiation shielding concepts for the proposed X-6, an aircraft intended to use a nuclear reactor as the heat source for four GE J-47 jet engines.

Isn't that the one where they couldn't adequately shield the pilots or it would be too heavy to fly, so they brought pilots in their 50s and 60s out of retirement to be test pilots because it was thought they would die of natural causes before the radiation killed them?

 

[Leadeye]

Wow! You guys are way ahead of me on this stuff. I guess there was a lot more to this.

 

[Mikey1911]

Isn't that the one where they couldn't adequately shield the pilots or it would be too heavy to fly, so they brought pilots in their 50s and 60s out of retirement to be test pilots because it was thought they would die of natural causes before the radiation killed them?

I think that it was the Soviet project that had those problems. The NB-36H only had a 1 megawatt reactor hung in the bomb bay to see what kind of shielding had a chance to be effective. Whenever it flew, the NB-36H was accompanied by other aircraft carrying a radiation safety team in case of a crash.

If you can find a copy of Jay Miller’s ”The X-Planes: X-1 to X-45” (the Third Edition; the First Edition that I bought years ago at the Wright-Patterson gift shop only went up to the X-29), there’s a chapter on the (never-built) X-6 that discusses the NB-36H.

AOC worries about the CO2 emitted by kerosene-burning jet engines. Her tiny little mind would explode at the thought of a bunch of radioactive hot air being used to produce thrust.

 

[Mongo59]

Her tiny little mind would explode at the thought of a bunch of radioactive hot air being used to produce thrust.

That would sound and smell like a wet fart...

 

[Dead Duck]

So I just saw this about that Explosion in Russia.
If true maybe a little sabotage involved? A foreign strike of some kind?

I know this theory has been brought up but could we have done it? Here's hoping.



'Russia's secret nuclear-powered cruise missile may have been factor in mysterious blast that killed at least 5'

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-nuclear-blast-cruise-missle-putin

 

[T.Lex]

I did wonder what centrifuges they used.

 

[ghuns]

I did wonder what centrifuges they used.

I think they use old "Gravitron" rides when they're retired from USian county fairs.

 

[T.Lex]

Putting this here, because it pulls together a couple things:

French media reporting that Chinese forces have pushed closer to the border of Hong Kong.

RT (formerly Russia Times) is reporting a clash along the Kashmir front killed 5 Indian soldiers and 3 Pakistanis.

 

[NKBJ]

Will the good people of Japan support including nukes in their rearmament?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7378849/Japan-warns-North-Korea-miniaturized-nukes.html

 

[T.Lex]

Might be worth its own thread, but India is acknowledging one of its police officers was killed in a gunfight in Kashmir.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49419023

 

[NKBJ]

Nothing really changes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aftg6FUoJ0

 

[NKBJ]

And now Turkey says it will make its own smart bombs and won't accept not having nukes.
Yeehah!

 

[Thor]

When I was in Turkey 9 out of 10 Turks liked Americans but that 10th wanted to kill you. Now those 9 have been purged from official positions...time to purge them from NATO.