Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Minot Mistake

Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Well it seems my former employer (the USAF) made a small error last Thursday. They accidentally flew a plane load of nuclear weapons across the mid section of country. Seems someone made a mistake, they were not supposed to be live weapons.

Of course the MSM is making it sound like they were carrying raw bars of plutonium strapped to its wings, and radioactive liquids was dripping from its fuselage. The reports say that they were cruise missiles, this I doubt. The ALCM is relatively new to the inventory and it has to be the AGM-69 SRAM which can only be carried internally on a rotary launcher. Its also very unlikely that anyone, other than the idiot who made this mistake, was harmed.

These types of weapons are very difficult to damage, even in an aircraft crash. They are designed to strike targets at mach speed and remain intact long enough to detonate. A plane crash would do little more than dent the casing.

Nonetheless, right now there is a commander in Minot AFB in deep doo doo. You don't make a mistake of this magnitude and keep your command. This guy, gal, is probably on a C-17 headed to Greenland to command a radar site right now.
 
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