A blast from the past: Atomic Annie

CW3 Kevin Storm — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:19:32 -0400

Atomic Annie, the first of the Atomic Field Artillery Cannon. Imagine you are on the crew of this Gun? What would your thoughts be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94T1JVIk_MU

SUPER POWERFUL US Military NUCLEAR artillery gun historic footage

A great historic video of US military testing a nuclear armed artillery gun. The M65 Atomic Cannon, often called Atomic Annie,[3] was a towed artillery piece...

Response by CW4 Guy Butler made Aug 5 at 2015 3:46 PM

CW4 Guy Butler — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:46:14 -0400

As it happens, my first assignment was as an assembler in a M110A2 howitzer battery... Did not want to pull the lanyard on that one.

Response by COL Korey Jackson made Aug 5 at 2015 4:10 PM

COL Korey Jackson — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:10:33 -0400

Thoughts after lanyard pulled: "Work, work, work."
First thoughts after nuclear detonation: "Woe and wow. It worked."
I highly respect that crew and the associated engineers and scientists in that video.

As a major, I served on a scientific assessment team for one of the last underground nuclear tests. My thoughts then: "Awesome."
And for the most part, our military equipment undergoing survivability testing took a licking and kept on ticking.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 5 at 2015 4:55 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:55:40 -0400

Does not look like a very mobile gun...
Better get them all the first time.