Nuclear artillery
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Nuclear artillery is a subset of limited-yield tactical nuclear weapons, in particular those weapons that are launched from the ground at battlefield targets. Nuclear artillery is commonly associated
Upshot–Knothole Grable, a 1953 test of a nuclear artillery projectile at the Nevada Test Site (photo depicts an artillery piece with a 280 mm bore (11 inch), and the explosion of its artillery shell at a distance of 10 km (6.2 mi))
Weapons designers and a full-size W48 155 mm artillery shell mockup
280 mm "Atomic Annie" firing the Shot GRABLE, May 25, 1953
280 mm 'Atomic Annie' at the Virginia War Museum
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
Nuclear artillery
…M110 howitzer and M115 howitzer delivering 203mm W33 nuclear shell, 1957–1992. M-28/M-29 Davy Crockett (nuclear device) M-388 warhead derived from W54, 1961–1971. MGR-3 Little John free flight rocket delivering W45 nuclear weapon, 1962–1969…
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.