To clarify, the comment I was responding to wasn’t really asking about Dr. Strangelove, but about how bombers ever survived the nuclear bombs they were dropping, especially when those bombs have such widespread devastation.
And nuclear bombers can fly at 50k feet.
I’ve seen that movie dozens of time and never imagined a scenario where they didn’t die in the blast.
I believe that the B-58 was high altitude, but would fly attacks low altitude to avoid RADAR after Russian missile development could shoot it down at altitude.
At any rate, it was no longer used.
Hmm, I never thought of that. Interesting point.
They crash, either from the blast or because, as Kong put it, “Well boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio is gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we’d need sleigh bells on this thing. But we got one little budge on those Russkies. At this height why they might harpoon us, but they dang sure ain’t gonna spot us on no radar screen!”
I presume the missile that damaged the bomber used a tactical nuclear warhead; did the crew receive a fatal radiation dose? If so it would explain why Major Kong didn’t care about falling out of the plane with the bomb.
You guys are straining more and more into “Fail safe” territory.
Kong didn’t care cause the script says KONG: “Yeeeeeehawwwwww”