What is a SADM?
This amazing declassified film shows a Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) being parachute jumped by a U.S. Navy SEAL/UDT frogman with fins from a low-performance CH-46 SeaKnight helicopter and a high-performance P-5M Marlin ASW/maritime patrol seaplane.So a few decades ago, Navy SEALs/UDTs were tasked with jumping out of aircraft with Special Atomic Demolition Munitions!
The question that no one wants to ask is simple. Are they still tasked with this today?
Well, the Atomic Demolition Munitions school at Fort Belvoir in Virginia was closed in 1985. So the US Forces either have a secret training programm for these weapons, or their use was completly discontinued. Also, the NDAA for FY 1994 prohibited the goverment from developing and using nuclear weapons with a yield beneath 5 kilotons (although this was repealed in 2004 with the NDAA of that Fiscal Year).
ReplyDeleteThat SADM looks bulky, google up : russian suitcase nuke.
ReplyDeleteIf te US has man portable nuke i would bet that it's small.
I read about this in one of the SEAL memoar, also one incident where they misplaced the SADM in an exercise.. i think it is a SEAL in the Roy Boehm Era..Team Two if i remember correctly.. not marcinko, one of his buddies ..
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