• sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    Sir, we got the responses back for the RFP for a new strategic bomber.
    Great captain, what did you get?
    We got three proposals back. Two of them are direct copies of the B-52, but made by a different company.
    Ok, and the third one.
    Well sir, it’s from Boeing, so it’s just the B-52 but the bomb bay doors may fall off during flight.

    • notabot@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      3 days ago

      it’s just the B-52 but the bomb bay doors may fall off during flight.

      Cunning. Extra munitions built into the airframe and deployable with minimal manual intervention. We’ll take 50.

      • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        Fun Fact a cold war project the “big stick” (Nuclear powered, Nuclear ICBM) had a “problem” that it’s exhaust was radioactive. Then the military said, no, that’s bonus damage, it will spread radiation even over enemy cities it doesn’t target, and we can fly it over more places to take advantage of that.

        • notabot@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          I heard you like to irradiate things, so I put a nuke in your nuke, so you can irradiate while you irradiate.

          A project Pluto powered missile really would be the ultimate ‘screw you’, it could fly around enemy territory for days or more, spewing radioactive exhaust, launching warheads as it went, before finally hitting a target. Shoot it down and you have a nuclear mess, don’t and you have a wider nuclear mess.