An example of how much warfare has changed in 50 years.

[Demon-Xanth]

Nobody in a first world country would consider even makng this anymore.

 

[jdini76]

Starship Troopers. They used that to kill bugs.

 

[jimbob200521]

I'm sure we've got the same thing or something very similar now, but with better accuracy...

 

[FoBoT]

w0w

2,100 were produced. The weapon was deployed with U.S. Army forces from 1961 to 1971.

i am sure they have been dismantled, you wouldn't want terrorists getting one of these

 

[conehead433]

I'm surprised terrorists didn't get a hold of some these. It would be quite the backback bomb.

 

[MedicBob]

Originally posted by: jimbob200521
I'm sure we've got the same thing or something very similar now, but with better accuracy...

Nope. We, the USA, used to have artillery shells that were nukes, but even them have been dismantled/removed from inventory.

 

[dennilfloss]

You could do some interesting carpet bombing with a full load of those warheads on a B52. I liked the Genie nuclear air-to-air missile also.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The US's stance on battle changed when designers changed the definition of accuracy from 5 miles to 2 meters. You no longer needed to take out a city to take out a manufacturing plant. Tomahawk missiles (which were originally made to haul nukes) can now fling a warhead in a couple minutes to anywhere within 1000 miles of it's launcher. And a larger part of war has become PR. Killing 100,000 people just isn't good press anymore. It's easier to say "destroyed tanks" or "shot down planes".

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
The US's stance on battle changed when designers changed the definition of accuracy from 5 miles to 2 meters. You no longer needed to take out a city to take out a manufacturing plant. Tomahawk missiles (which were originally made to haul nukes) can now fling a warhead in a couple minutes to anywhere within 1000 miles of it's launcher. And a larger part of war has become PR. Killing 100,000 people just isn't good press anymore. It's easier to say "destroyed tanks" or "shot down planes".

Considering TLAMs are subsonic missiles, I doubt they can travel anywhere within a thousand miles in just a couple of minutes.