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2023-02-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Naval mine explodes off the coast of Georgia

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Posted by badanov 2023-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 Oh, not Savannah.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-14 19:50|| 2023-02-14 19:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Not out of the realm of possibilities

If Godzilla is a metaphor for the atomic bomb then Tybee Island has its own city-smashing monster slumbering off the coast, waiting to perhaps one day wake up and wreak destruction on Georgia shores.

On February 5, 1958, an F-86 fighter jet had a mid-air collision with a B-47 bomber carrying a Mark 15 hydrogen bomb during a training exercise. The pilot of the F-86 managed to eject before his jet disintegration, and the damaged bomber managed to make a harrowing emergency landing at Hunter Army Airfield, but not before it jettisoned the 7,600-pound bomb into the waters around Wassaw Sound, so that it could lighten its load and prevent the bomb from exploding in the event that they crashed.

A 10-week search mission by 100 Navy personnel was unable to trace where the bomb fell.

It’s still there somewhere

Posted by Beavis 2023-02-14 21:14|| 2023-02-14 21:14|| Front Page Top

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