favorite weapon?

[5.56X45mm]

How about this little gem?

Is that what I think it is? The Davey Crockett Nuclear Weapon System.

 

[5.56X45mm]

Here's one of my personal favorite weapons.

 

[Team Infidel]

It looks like a boxing glove with a Magnaflow Exhaust system attached to it.

 

[Maytime]

There goes another keyboard ruined by projectile coffee! Haha

 

[Yossarian]

He thats dangorous!!!I ate MREs for supper last night,tose thing are good in some areas ,and bad in others,jus wanted to tyr em for once,I fainally got a hold of sum,man,How do you guys do?

Oh and have you seen the new exeperimental sights for the M16?Its a combination of scope and open sights.

 

[2dold4this]

Is that what I think it is? The Davey Crockett Nuclear Weapon System.

Yep. From an era when the U.S. Army anticipated using over four hundred nuclear weapons per day in combat with Soviet forces.

 

[5.56X45mm]

They were deployed to US Army forces in germany during the 1960s. Also nuke was able to be "safely" detonated something like 600 yards away.

 

[Yossarian]

In the early 70s the United States military command held a Mock war with the Sover Union,after 3 days of combat silmilation involeing the Highest cammanders of the United States Military,we lost our own similations,multiple times, Nuclear ahnialtion was own only means of succese

 

[Missileer]

In the early 70s the United States military command held a Mock war with the Sover Union,after 3 days of combat silmilation involeing the Highest cammanders of the United States Military,we lost our own similations,multiple times, Nuclear ahnialtion was own only means of succese

Do you have a source where you got these details?

This is the only article I could find about a mock war between the US and USSR. It was not a mock war but a mock attack against the US. I was during the Reagan years and was an example of an all out sneak attack on the US with all USSR missiles reaching their targets. Nothing took into account what US missiles were doing to the USSR during the simulation. If you have any other source, I'd like to read it.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar/reagan.htm

"In his first term, Reagan took part in a secret exercise that may have influenced his later pursuit of arms reductions with Gorbachev. The exercise, said former aide Thomas C. Reed, simulated a nuclear attack and how the president would make decisions. Reagan watched a screen in the White House situation room showing red dots where Soviet missiles would strike. The first one annihilated Washington.

"Before the president could sip his coffee, the map was a sea of red," Reed recalled. "In less than an hour, President Reagan had seen the United States of America disappear."
"I have no doubt," Reed wrote, "that on that Monday in March, Ronald Reagan came to understand exactly what a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. would be like. It was a sobering experience, and it undoubtedly stiffened his resolve to do something about a shield against such an attack."

Less than a year after Reagan left office, the Berlin Wall fell, and the Cold War ended in 1991. The Soviet collapse was the result of many things, including shocks such as the Chernobyl disaster, rebellion in the Baltic republics and the rising expectations of consumers in a socialist system that could not produce a decent pair of jeans.

But one of the major shocks was Reagan."

"Those around Gorbachev were also well aware of the growing military gap with the United States.

Anatoly Chernyaev, a party official who later became Gorbachev's senior foreign policy adviser, wrote in his diary of a June 1984 Central Committee briefing in which committee members were shown documentaries about the U.S. buildup.

"It was amazing," he recalled, "missiles honing in on their targets from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away; aircraft carriers, submarines that could do anything; winged missiles that, like in a cartoon, could be guided through a canyon and hit a target 10 meters in diameter from 2,500 kilometers away. An incredible breakthrough of modern technology.

And, of course, unthinkably expensive."

"A CIA analysis concluded that the Soviets did not have a single scientific supercomputer, that their technology lagged the United States by 10 years and that the best Soviet scientific computers were slower than their Western counterparts by a factor of 20.

"As Gorbachev's ally Eduard Shevardnadze said, "Everything had gone rotten."

 

[Yossarian]

Good words,I cant specify where I got my information from,seeing I ve known this for quite some time now,some rented program I watched I belive,but then agian ,.....

 

[AussieNick]

Hmmm, my only thought on this "mock battle" is that he could be talking about staff level "war gaming". That is not a mock battle. It's just part of the military appreciation process.

 

[Donkey]

Do you have a source where you got these details?

This is the only article I could find about a mock war between the US and USSR. It was not a mock war but a mock attack against the US. I was during the Reagan years and was an example of an all out sneak attack on the US with all USSR missiles reaching their targets. Nothing took into account what US missiles were doing to the USSR during the simulation. If you have any other source, I'd like to read it.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar/reagan.htm

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Isnt that what the movie War Games was losely based on...Even though some hacker kid messed it all up (in the movie)...

This is the movie I'm thinking http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

On topic.....

I really am a fan of all weapons but knives will always have a special place in my display cabinets...Just something about knives, they are sleek, sexy, and dangerous all at the same time...I dunno I collect my share