• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The US made, in its dr. strangelove years, 2100 “davey crocket” backpacks that were 51lbs. The suicide vest is an arab insurgent tool, and meant to be much more discrete.

    Iran is pretty good at missiles, and 4 weeks ago, and for last 30 years, was supposedly 2 weeks away from a nuke, as well as having a thing against Israel.

    • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      A backpack device is BIG. It could not be concealed like a suicide vest. It also requires nuclear materials (plutonium) and a specialty implosion design and triggers Iran does not have.

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        3 months ago

        An Atomic Demolition Munition was nearly the size of a 55-gallon drum and came in two pieces – the weapon itself and the equipment to detonate it – for making it easier to transport.

        • ours@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          The SADM is 4 pieces, each weighing 18kg.

          Nobody’s walking around with a nuke vest. Why bother? Bomb vests are made so you can walk into a crowded place. With a nuke, just drive it in a truck in the targeted neighborhood.

          This is just Vance trying to scare some support into the disaster that Trump started to make us forget about Epstein.

    • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      yeah the idea that Iran would use humans as delivery mechanism for nuclear weapons is a form of racist fetishization. it’s maddening, this man. but then. i’m appalachian. i’m the hillbilly that racist carpet-baggging son of a bitch hayseed spoke ill of in his book. and i swear to GOD that man put soap in the cast iron skillet i’m gonna hit him in the face with

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          3 months ago

          yeah but you just know he’d put an old cast iron dutch oven straight in the dishwashes and then the cupboard

          he whistles in the woods at night and in the house in the day

          he painted his backdoor blue

          he shoots birds at the window with a bb gun