Martin Antonenko
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"Comrade Martin" has again a lot of anti-US-American propaganda to offer today...:
The Tybee hydrogen bomb...
On February 5, 1958, two planes collided off the coast of Georgia:
An F86 “Sabre” fighter…
...the US Air Force touches a B 47 "Stratojet" of the US Strategic Bomber Command during intercept exercises...:
The fighter is badly damaged and crashes, the pilot can save himself with the ejection seat.
The bomber, armed - on a deterrent patrol - remains airworthy, but its right engine fails....:
After three unsuccessful emergency landing attempts, the aircraft commander, Colonel Howard Richardson (on the left in the next photo) decides...
... throwing the intact hydrogen bomb that was being carried into the sea.
The bomb will then be dropped over Wassaw Sound southwest of the heavily touristed island of Tybee (on the Savannah River on the South Carolina-Georgia border) from an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet and at a speed of 200 knots...:
So "relieved" the B-47 can finally land at Hunter Air Force Base...:
The Mark 15 hydrogen bomb with the serial number 47782 and several thousand times the explosive force of the Hroshima bomb remains uncovered to this day.
At some point - it's only a matter of time! - the aggressive sea water will have rusted through the bomb body and released the nuclear explosive - highly enriched uranium.
In 2001, the US Air Force released a study intended to describe the danger to residents near the suspected drop site.
According to this study, the bomb posed no immediate danger because the nuclear fuse was not installed.
However, the commander of the B-47 bomber states that the fuze was very well deployed when the plane took off. Anything else would make little sense on a nuclear deterrent patrol...
The US Air Force decided it was wiser to leave the bomb at the bottom of the sea rather than attempt to lift it and risk detonating or contaminating the area...:
The contamination will probably come on its own at some point...
The Tybee hydrogen bomb...
On February 5, 1958, two planes collided off the coast of Georgia:
An F86 “Sabre” fighter…
...the US Air Force touches a B 47 "Stratojet" of the US Strategic Bomber Command during intercept exercises...:
The fighter is badly damaged and crashes, the pilot can save himself with the ejection seat.
The bomber, armed - on a deterrent patrol - remains airworthy, but its right engine fails....:
After three unsuccessful emergency landing attempts, the aircraft commander, Colonel Howard Richardson (on the left in the next photo) decides...
... throwing the intact hydrogen bomb that was being carried into the sea.
The bomb will then be dropped over Wassaw Sound southwest of the heavily touristed island of Tybee (on the Savannah River on the South Carolina-Georgia border) from an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet and at a speed of 200 knots...:
So "relieved" the B-47 can finally land at Hunter Air Force Base...:
The Mark 15 hydrogen bomb with the serial number 47782 and several thousand times the explosive force of the Hroshima bomb remains uncovered to this day.
At some point - it's only a matter of time! - the aggressive sea water will have rusted through the bomb body and released the nuclear explosive - highly enriched uranium.
In 2001, the US Air Force released a study intended to describe the danger to residents near the suspected drop site.
According to this study, the bomb posed no immediate danger because the nuclear fuse was not installed.
However, the commander of the B-47 bomber states that the fuze was very well deployed when the plane took off. Anything else would make little sense on a nuclear deterrent patrol...
The US Air Force decided it was wiser to leave the bomb at the bottom of the sea rather than attempt to lift it and risk detonating or contaminating the area...:
The contamination will probably come on its own at some point...
