You're right. It wasn't just the strategic aircraft either. When I
entered training for the F-105, the airplanes were still polished bare
metal. The nuclear weapon of choice was the B-28 or B-43, each of them
rated at 1 MT. Deliveries were usually programmed for some sort of low
altitude low-angle toss with a wing-over escape maneuver to run away
at about 135 degrees from original run-in heading.


One of my friends showed me a video of him in an F-16 dropping one of those
Special shapes, from an F-16 at Tonapah. Did a 40 degree loft, got the bomb
within 20 m.




Ron
Tucson AZ
C-421 air ambulance