Re: Shoulder launched nukes?

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Reindl wrote:

> Hmm, I don't know about shoulder-launched, but I do know that the US
Army 
> deployed a tactical weapon in the 50's called the Davey Crockett.  It
was 
> small enough to be (2) man-portable, but in order to fire it, the crew
had 

It wasn't really a man portable system. My Gunston book on Rockets and 
Missiles shows it as a largish RR mounted on a jeep. The Rocket was spin

stabilized and unguided. 

A quick search yielded the following...

www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/DAVYC.HTM

it was a 54 lb warhead with a yield of .01 to .02 kilotons. 10 tons of 
TNT in other words. 

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