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May 16th, 2005  
bushpig1998
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Missileer
In the old days, our Nike Hercs had small pieces of reflective tape on the nuclear ones denoting the yield in Kt. I think 5Kt was yellow, green was. 20Kt and red was 30Kt. I don't think the HE loads were color coded.
Do you glow green at night?


No seriously...The blue ones are the dummies while the yellow or red ones are usually not good to drop on your toes.
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