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Ever see a flick from the 1980s called "The Fourth Protocol" where a Russian GRU agent was plotting to blow up RAF Upper Heyford with a little shotgun style uranium weapon he carried around on the back of a BMW K75 motorcycle? Pierce Brosnan played the Russian GRU officer and he did his own riding in the movie. I always shook my head watching that. The weapon should have squashed he seat foam flat and radiated him to the point his skin was falling off.
 
One fellow that used to work with me at the transmitter plant used to work for the Coast Guard and Navy-the stories he could tell about the ships he sailed-was very interesting-wished I could have gone along!He mentioned of a Coast Guard ship that was Diesel electric-DC-He described to start the main engine a battery bank aboard the ship would be used to dump its output into the DC generator-"motoring" it and using it as a starter.That would have been something to see!
Never watched the movie "Fourth Protocal" but will watch for it-this would be good to see and laugh about!A Uranium Shotgun?Was it supposed to shoot slugs made from Uranium?The velocity of the payload would also be very low-and range short if the powder charge in the shotshell was expected to launch a projectile made from Uranium.Its as STUPID as shotgun shells that are sold which have a saboted .50 cal BMG bullet.That is more than 2 and a half times the weight of a shotgun slug.Now if the shotgun did have a rifled slug barrel the velocity would too low to stabilize a bullet designed for 3,000 FPS velocity.There are companies that sell "novelty" 12 Ga shells-this was one of them.Maybe the movie charactor should use that in his shotgun!
 
Nuclear Shotgun......for those who prefer a wider-spray of irradiated bullets! 
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Not quite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-type_fission_weapon

For that era I was very surprised to see that technology shown on TV. I didn't think it was in the public realm. Probably 99% of the people who watched that movie had no idea what they were seeing.

Btw, my Mom was on the Manhatten Project and I was a weapons courier for a time, so we joke about being a different kind of nuclear family.
 
Ah, the nuclear family! The age of leaving your house and car unlocked (with the keys in the ignition, too!), coming home to a meal made by your loving wife, not a microwave! War was a card game, Drugs were Alka-Seltzer and Aspirin! TVs ran on tubes and not circuits, cars could be fixed with WD-40 and a Craftsman wrench!


 


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TVs ran from tubes--not circuits?The early TV worked on TUBED circuits-not solid state circuits!!
Since I hadn't seen that picture-Fourth Protocal" then the weapon the charactor was using was a small hand-held portable gun type nuclear device?Guess I will have to see this moview so then I am clear as to the weapon used.The charactor would have been destroyed when the weapon was used!Suicide mission!
Shotguns can be the most versitle weapon available as a firearm-Yes most think of the multiple projectiles fired from one.A shotgun can fire indivdual projectiles-bullet-known as shotgun slugs.They can be full bore-the full diameter of the shotguns barrel-a simple lead slug-has most of its weight in its nose so it can fly straight kinda like a badminton bird.Thus it will give good accuracy from the smoothbore barrel.Then we have saboted slugs-a more modern innovation.These came about in the 70's-the BRI Sabot slug-the BRI company has been bought out by Olin-Winchester.The former BRI bullets are loaded under the Winchester name.This type of projectile is a lead or copper half in diameter projectile sorrounded by a plastic sabot to fit the shotguns barrel.Best accuracy from these is from a rifled shotgun barrel or a add on barrel sleeve.Shotgun slugs are used for deer hunting and other big game hunting-thus one gun can serve the hunter for bird hunting or big game.Rifled shotgun barrels can be used with common pump shotguns like Mossberg and Remington,Winchester.Most sport good and gun suppliers sell the rifled barrels or clamp on barrel sleeves.These clamp onto the standard smoothbore barrel muzzle.In some states or counties only shotguns can be used for large game hunting-hence the development of slugs.In those ares rifles can't be used becuase of their very long range.Since the sabot projectiles for shotguns-adapted from arttillery technology-the shot gun slug has come a long way.
 
Eh, not necessarily a suicide mission. Activating something by timer is not unusual, gives whomever set the device time to egress to a safe locale. The blast radius of something that is man portable won't be so big as to make safe egress impossible.

Ever see one of these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munition

Man portable, air droppable with the two man demolition team. Our rules were that a nuke was never, ever under any circumstances left in the control of a single person. Two man rule is the law.

In "The Forth Protocol" the Soviet GRU officer was not on a suicide mission. He would plant the device and leave, on his BMW motorcycle presumably.
 
Shotguns are great for close quarters combat. Every squad in the Marines has a shot gunner. The WWI name for them was the "trench broom".

I'm more of a mortar guy myself. I especially like the auto loading AMOS 120 mm mortars from Bofors. They can be truck, boat or ship mounted and have guided top attack munitions and cluster munitions that are ideal IMHO for breaking up swarming boat attacks out to 4500 meters or more.

http://www.military-today.com/artillery/amos.htm

If you look at the bottom right of the page you see an AMOS mortar mounted on a Swedish high speed landing craft called a CB-90 for Combat Boat 90. You can hide these in small bays and inlets, move around at will (shoot and scoot) and pound the living crap out of an enemy ashore.



I greatly admire how a small country like Sweden is able to develop so many innovative weapons and aircraft.
 
LOL Tolivac, you know what I meant! You didn't need 60 inches of television and a laugh-track to have a blast back then! You know, 'I Love Lucy' was planned to have a laugh-track, but the thought was cancelled because the show was genuinely funny and didn't need one! WAY too many shows now have the laugh-track, many TV channels have made such low-quality, simple shows like these to the point that I only tune in to the channel for re-runs. Here's the golden rule of modern comedy shows: if it doesn't have a laugh-track or a ridiculously stupid character, it isn't funny! 
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I think a Musket may be more versatile, you can shoot everything from poker chips to uranium bits out of it! I had a dream last night where I had found one of those watches with the uranium-infused painted dial, and didn't wear it because I decided I liked my arm and didn't want it to melt off! I was also a wife and somebody stole my SUV, so I made a telephone call on some strangers cellphone, and I was too scared to call 911 for some reason. There was also this vacuum Shop I never noticed before just a few houses down from me, and I though, 'wow,I can walk here to buy belts and stuff!'.they had old vacuum propaganda in the windows, it was an odd-shaped building! Yes, my dreams are WEIRD, but certainly entertaining! 
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Oh and P.S-I would ask myself why I was driving an SUV instead of a DeSoto before I would ask why I was a wife, or why I had a radioactive watch in my pocket! 
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DT-That AMOS Mortar system is AMAZING-WE should have this!Like how the weapon can be mounted on any vehicle platform and be fired on the go!And like shotguns mortars can fire a wide variety of shells.Watched both video clips of the AMOS one mounted on the boat-other on the tracked vehicle.Would like to see more how the loader mechanism in that works!Yes,I had respect for Sweden-besides weapons-they make fine lines of machine tools and logging-lumbering equipment.And didn't know about the manually placed Demolition type nuclear device-interesting-and yes the two man rule.Learn about weapons besides vacuums on this site now!
Super-Sweeper-A shotgun can almost be considered a MODERN "musket"there are videos on Youtube of handloaders loading almost ANYTHING that can fit in a shotgun shell and firing it!Sometimes the objects can be hard on the guns barrel.I don't like modern "comedy" shows either-just about ALL TV today is pretty bad and NO TALENT!!!The radium dials could and were worn-and the radium dial clock-esp the alarm clocks were used with the user only inches or at most a few feet from it. Their head was the part close to the clock-you know someone using it while in bed Most clock collectors that have radium dial clocks keep them in a cabinet away from folks.
 
The Swedes also have the only self propelled 155 mm howitzer that can hit moving targets in either direct fire or indirect fire. It's on a six wheel articulated mining dump truck chassis. 8/9 rounds per minute rate of fire, six round MRSI (Multile Round, Simultaneous Impact, basically shooting six rounds in rapid succession, each at a lower trajectory than the round before such that all six rounds hit the target at the same time), two man crew, air transportable in a C-130. Why our army keeps putzing around with derivatives of the ancient hand loaded, bag charged Paladin is beyond my comprehension.

This is how modern field artillery ought to be designed:

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/sweden-norway-to-cooperate-on-archer-artillery-project-05142/

http://www.military-today.com/artillery/archer.htm
 
LOL, "Demolition type nuclear device", There's nothing like cleaning up a big pile of radioactive rubble! Hazmat suits are available at the front desk, and be sure to take your car trough the car-wash before you get home! 
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