The B43 was a United States air-dropped variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft. The B43 was developed from 1956 by Los Alamos National Laboratory, entering production in 1959. It entered service in April 1961. Total production was 2,000 weapons, ending in 1965.

The B43 was a United States air-dropped variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft. The B43 was developed from 1956 by Los Alamos National Laboratory, entering production in 1959. It entered service in April 1961. Total production was 2,000 weapons, ending in 1965.

The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga.

Apr 14, 2024 · These had three and five weapons stations, respectively, allowing for over 8,000 pounds of munitions — including the B43 nuclear bomb. Unlike most planes on this list, we have records of an A-4...

The B43 nuclear bomb could be dropped by a variety of platforms, including the A-4 Skyhawk. The same basic design could produce a variety of yields, from 70 kilotons to 1 megaton. The weapon lost on 5 December 1965 was set to the highest yield.

The B43 was a United States air-dropped variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft. The B43 was developed from 1956 by Los Alamos National Laboratory, entering production in 1959. It entered service in April 1961. Total production was 2,000 weapons, ending in 1965.

Dec 24, 2020 · The one featured in the video appears to be a B43, a variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of aircraft. Developed from 1955, it entered production in 1959. 2,000 such bombs...

The B83 nuclear components have been attributed as the same as the earlier B77. The B83 replaced several earlier weapons, including the B28, B43, and to some extent the ultra-high-yield B53. It was the first U.S. nuclear weapon designed from the start to avoid accidental detonation, with the use of "insensitive explosives" in the trigger lens ...

The remaining type of TacNuc weapon in U. S. Navy service is the aircraft bomb. Several nuclear bombs are avail­able for naval aircraft: the B43, which entered service in 1961 and has several configurations with a maximum explo­sive force of about one megaton; the B57, available since 1963, in depth bomb con­figurations up to about ten ...

Feb 9, 2016 · An A-4 Skyhawk with a B43 nuclear bomb under its belly rises on an elevator from the hangar deck to the flight deck on the USS Independence (CV-62) in an undated US Navy photo. In December 1965, a B43 attached to an A-4 rolled off the elevator on the USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) while the carrier was on its way to Yokosuka in Japan.