Fulda Gap
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The Fulda Gap, an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border, the former Inner German border, and Frankfurt am Main, contains two corridors of lowlands through which tanks might have driven in a surpris
Theoretical attack routes through the Fulda Gap. The southern one through Fulda, the northern one through Alsfeld. The Vogelsberg Mountains rise between the two routes.
Terrain near the central German town of Fulda
A soldier of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment on duty in the Fulda Gap during the Cold War
11th ACR memorial at the former Downs Barracks, Fulda, Germany
The M28 or M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United
Fulda Gap
…War. With such an eventuality in mind, weapons were evolved such as nuclear tube and missile artillery, the nuclear recoilless gun/tactical launcher Davy Crockett, Special Atomic Demolition Munitions, the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, and A-10 ground attack aircraft. The northern route through the Gap passes…
A Davy Crockett at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 1961
Stowage of the Davy Crockett weapon system in an M113 carrier
The weapon's mushroom cloud, July 17, 1962
The Little Feller I nuclear test site in 2008.