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Nuclear Weapons Transport Convoys Are Epic And Awesome: VIDEOS
2024-04-30
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Posted by:Skidmark

#5  
Let's not forget NERT, or NEST for some.
When a clean-Up, collection or recovery is needed.
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-04-30 16:45  

#4  

"A Safeguards Transporter (SGT) is a truck developed for and used by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous affiliate agency of the United States Department of Energy, for the ground transport of nuclear weapons in the contiguous United States. SGTs' trailers are known as Safe Secure Trailers (SST)."

If a SGT comes under attack, unspecified security features in the vehicles give them, according to the NNSA, the capability to "surprise and delay even the most aggressive adversary". The full range of defensive components in SGTs is unknown, but according to some media reports the vehicles are equipped with autonomous weapons systems and other "high-tech surprises" that allow them to independently engage and repel attackers even if all human crew have been killed or disabled. The NNSA has also stated that access to nuclear weapons held within a SST is not possible, even for crew members, due to unspecified security features that prevent the doors from being opened except in "an approved security area".[2][5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-04-30 13:40  

#3  I expected many more vehicles than that. I see marines from Camp Pendleton moving up and down Interstate 5 all the time. They might not have nukes, I don't know if they're packing any heat at all, but they bring a whole bunch of Hummers and trucks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-04-30 12:57  

#2  Yeah, when they are ordered out to supress the citizens that will be quite the funnel they drive into.

I doubt Quentin Tarantino cool will get it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-04-30 12:29  

#1  ...I never did an off-base convoy, but we trained for it, in the event that we had to conduct WWIII from another site. On base was enjoyable enough; shotguns (not M16s) full battle rattle, and surrounded by enough firepower to make Quentin Tarantino wince.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-04-30 12:24  

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