How the US Air Force Moves an ICBM Nuclear Warhead Through Great Falls, Montana to Malmstrom AFB

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  • @nukewatch258
    @nukewatch258  Рік тому +443

    Here’s a link to the US NRC. This is public information and outlines their procedure for moving such sensitive equipment.
    www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part073/part073-0026.html

    • @captainfactoid3867
      @captainfactoid3867 Рік тому +8

      NRC regulates commercial usage. This would be DOE and probably Air Force regs instead

    • @captainfactoid3867
      @captainfactoid3867 Рік тому

      @@James-to7pi it’s in public. It’s been filmed before. So shut up

    • @MrBNARick
      @MrBNARick Рік тому +2

      @@captainfactoid3867 This would be DOD

    • @captainfactoid3867
      @captainfactoid3867 Рік тому +7

      @@MrBNARick you sure? Office of Secure Transportation is in charge of transporting nukes within the contiguous US, and they are DoE

    • @TGWazoo1
      @TGWazoo1 Рік тому +5

      It is in fact DOE

  • @I_know_you_are_right_however
    @I_know_you_are_right_however Рік тому +22727

    That is the decoy. The actual nuke is in a U-Haul ½ mile to the west.

    • @Cat-up6hb
      @Cat-up6hb Рік тому +1755

      dont always listen to that lester says, he isnt right 100% of the time
      also you get an achivement for taking this route

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Рік тому +1323

      Yep with a couple unmarked SUV with heavily armed soldiers plus a Pickup truck with a cargo that actually is an Anti Aircraft Technical. That's how you get things done in cities.

    • @jvon3885
      @jvon3885 Рік тому +197

      Lol. Probably.

    • @avenger2.099
      @avenger2.099 Рік тому +572

      Lol that's what I would do put it in the fucking U-Haul nobody would have a clue

    • @MakerInMotion
      @MakerInMotion Рік тому +491

      Would be pointless because anyone who tried to steal the "decoy" would be turned to swiss cheese. Might as well just make that the warhead.

  • @BE_WERM
    @BE_WERM Рік тому +6811

    the formation of the trucks in front and behind the 18 wheelers is crazy

    • @torx82
      @torx82 Рік тому +625

      First thing I noticed as well. Perhaps they are just trying to draft to save fuel and thus taxpayer money.

    • @lucar.5045
      @lucar.5045 Рік тому +444

      I think is to avoid any car involuntarily, or voluntarily, get between the escorts and the semi, so the transport doesn't get dameged

    • @Aura-Of-Syrinx
      @Aura-Of-Syrinx Рік тому +245

      It's probably protocol to have certain things certain distances when moving such things?
      And yeah I noticed that too "Daaaamn thats a tight formation"

    • @Roberto9696-q7s
      @Roberto9696-q7s Рік тому +449

      ​@@torx82 "saving taxpayers money" nice joke

    • @neckarsulme
      @neckarsulme Рік тому +188

      @@torx82 "save tax payer money"...good one actually

  • @wonniewarrior
    @wonniewarrior Рік тому +976

    Those 2 security vehicles were so close to the truck bumpers I thought they were physically connected by bar or chain for extra security.

    • @cbarak72
      @cbarak72 8 місяців тому +35

      Yeah, that's the most impressive part. I imagine they move at steady pace the entire route which by itself is very difficult.

    • @michaels1432
      @michaels1432 8 місяців тому +4

      Same. So much for “assured clear distance”

    • @DeeSnutts
      @DeeSnutts 8 місяців тому +9

      @@cbarak72never heard of cruise control?

    • @cbarak72
      @cbarak72 8 місяців тому +19

      @@DeeSnutts Do military vehicles have cruise control?

    • @TigerShark_With_thigh_in_mouth
      @TigerShark_With_thigh_in_mouth 8 місяців тому

      Yeah amazing driving skills. The level of constant alert you’d need to maintain for so long. Looks like such a fun job.

  • @kingknight100
    @kingknight100 Рік тому +5993

    Here in mother Russia, we just load it into a Lada. And hope Igor makes it

    • @dakansa
      @dakansa Рік тому +769

      I am Igor. I made it.

    • @fgm1197
      @fgm1197 Рік тому

      Shut up and go to hell.
      Слава Україні

    • @JRmarksmen
      @JRmarksmen Рік тому +163

      To be fair, I think Russia would do it that way because no one is dumb enough to fuck with it. I can't imagine the FSB is gonna just yell at the person and send them to prison for life for fucking with the shipment, I got a feeling they will start with a cattle-prod and seeing which hole you have it fits better in.

    • @alekanzify
      @alekanzify Рік тому +194

      In Mother Russia they're not transpotring the ICBM warheads around. They just let'em rolling down the hill.

    • @BasicDad4547
      @BasicDad4547 Рік тому +38

      Just cause yall already sold the cores in 93 to the Iranians using the ethnic Chechnya rebels.

  • @danb6838
    @danb6838 Рік тому +877

    I remember (years ago) getting off work on a Sunday morning, at 3:00 AM, in downtown Minneapolis...and walking outside and getting freaked out!
    They were moving the Federal Reserve Bank to a brand new building....unannounced, with an Army of Top Secret Security.... No Sirens, no lights, no nothing!
    I thought we were being invaded!
    Later...I could just imagine how much gold, silver, and CASH drove right passed me.

    • @ETHRON1
      @ETHRON1 Рік тому +44

      If you only knew...

    • @johnbrubaker2033
      @johnbrubaker2033 Рік тому +41

      Probably not as much as you think.

    • @Devil914
      @Devil914 Рік тому +6

      I monitor the Top line Federal Credit Unions security panel. They actually had a hold up just last year.

    • @Lugtastic
      @Lugtastic Рік тому +29

      @@Devil914 The Federal Reserve is the most protected bank in the world. Ain't nobody robbing that shit, because nobody has lmao. Each bill in the reserve is freshly minted, so yeah there was tons of cash in there and it was all fresh as can be. I suppose the last half is for the dude above you, but had to point out the first half to you. Definitely a difference between a credit uninion (private business) and the federal reserve (government); you'd probably get double or triple the time for trying to reserve.

    • @Lugtastic
      @Lugtastic Рік тому +6

      @engineer gaming I'd like to agree with you by saying it's not "government" owned, as it isn't by facts, but them having FULL control over the money is exactly the SAME as a government; Fed. Reserve Act, 1913, so doesn't quite matter if they are or not. And how're you gonna say in the same sentence they don't hold money, only Gold, yet they're the only bank with a money printer? Where's the logic in that statement.
      "The seven members of the Board of Governors are nominated by the president and approved by the U.S. Senate. Each governor serves a maximum of 14 years, and each governor's appointment is staggered by two years to limit the power of the president. In addition, the law dictates that appointments be representative of all broad sectors of the U.S. economy." If the managers of said banks are APPOINTED by the PRESIDENT, it's indeed government ran.

  • @Tacklebarry
    @Tacklebarry Рік тому +620

    I’ve seen this many times living next to F.E. Warren AFB, WY. This is a highly coordinated process. All intersections and on-ramps are cut off ahead of convoy by vehicles that then take up the rear as the convoy passes (cycle repeats until destination reached). Others are right, there is no stopping that thing. I’m sure there’s drones too. It’s pretty impressive and neat to see.

    • @mattborman5780
      @mattborman5780 Рік тому +7

      There’s traffic moving in the opposite direction though, on the same road…

    • @GardenGuy1942
      @GardenGuy1942 Рік тому +12

      Im going to steal one of these

    • @andypeterson8013
      @andypeterson8013 Рік тому +5

      @@GardenGuy1942 How many Palestinian and Iranian friends are with you, cupcake?

    • @GardenGuy1942
      @GardenGuy1942 Рік тому +23

      @@andypeterson8013 none. I have Russian friends

    • @Dad-lu1oi
      @Dad-lu1oi Рік тому

      It’s a waste of money

  • @literallyshaking8019
    @literallyshaking8019 Рік тому +708

    I’ve heard that the trailers have an automated system that explosively shears the axels off while simultaneously driving massive steel rods into the ground in the event of attack (so there’s absolutely no way to move the trailer). It also floods the inside with a rapid expanding/hardening foam so you can’t even reach the warhead if you wanted.
    Impressive stuff.

    • @ShortArmOfGod
      @ShortArmOfGod Рік тому +1

      (((Citation required)))

    • @Jake-rs9nq
      @Jake-rs9nq Рік тому +30

      No they don't 😂

    • @maryterrill9227
      @maryterrill9227 Рік тому +80

      Considering that's a nuke it's a possibility it probably has a similar defense mechanism

    • @northsidecoolguy5041
      @northsidecoolguy5041 11 місяців тому +88

      @@Jake-rs9nq It Does. It likely has more then just that as well. The Trucks and Trailers are Custom and are part of NNSA OST

    • @jewishpenguin_9228
      @jewishpenguin_9228 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@northsidecoolguy5041 these are USAF missile cops escorting it, not ost

  • @JohnDoe-ot3zd
    @JohnDoe-ot3zd Рік тому +4422

    I have a friend that's in the Air Force. He says that convoy stops for no one. One they leave the base it doesn't stop until it's gets to it's destination. They have so many US Marshals and men guarding that warhead that there's no way you would ever stop that convoy, especially with the gunships fly over head.

    • @onlinebills9169
      @onlinebills9169 Рік тому +200

      Has your friend in the Airforce ever came across a technology called 'drones'? Apparently (I dont know if that's true) even civilians can get them and fly them. You can also get models that can carry a considerable load (if you wanted that load to be high explosives). But who knows. Maybe another of these conspiracy theories.

    • @orangehatmusic225
      @orangehatmusic225 Рік тому

      @@onlinebills9169 ... what crack are you smoking?

    • @doomfanboy9413
      @doomfanboy9413 Рік тому +130

      @@onlinebills9169 no you can load drones with c4 and other explosives it's happening in ukraine there's footage all over the internet check the sun times I think it's called? anyways that would be dumb as they could just jam the frequency of the drones to cut the feed for the camera and I'm sure they have a whole arsenal of technology that we don't even know about for instance they have a handheld gun build for destroying drones that's still in the works you should check out that one laser that removes rust back yard scientist did a video where he bought one and showed how it can cut metal and he cut a tree in half with it and you can also take the tip off to make a laser gun so just imagine what the military with all their funding could do with that technology.
      oh he also welded with the laser he fucking welded some metal together with a laser.

    • @Foreskinflavourednuts
      @Foreskinflavourednuts Рік тому +643

      @@onlinebills9169 Congratulations. You just won a lifetimes supply of free home security, courtesy of the NSA, CIA, FBI, USMO, and your local law enforcement precinct. They'll also watch over you and your family while at school, work, the grocery store or anywhere else you may go. Good luck purchasing any firearms, after all you won't need to, Big Brothers got your back 😉

    • @shotya9403
      @shotya9403 Рік тому +479

      @@onlinebills9169 those police cars between the armored trucks have a signal jammer on its top specifically designed for jamming signals, that includes drones

  • @AKBRONCOSFAN007
    @AKBRONCOSFAN007 Рік тому +1078

    I was stationed at FE Warren 20 years ago and was responsible for facility maintenance. I’d go out to the MAFs all the time and occasionally I see these convoys escorting these “weapon systems” either to or from the LFs. One of my best assignments I had.

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 Рік тому +10

      Nice, me too, most of the time i do not see people that was there around the same timeline that i was. I was Security forces at the time doing fireteams.. a little over 20 years ago, about 1998 to 2002. I was 790th SFS, so i also very involved in these weapons' movements. Honestly, even know i am from Florida, i enjoyed it there

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss Рік тому +2

      I wonder how many individually targetable warheads its got

    • @Dieselfueledwork
      @Dieselfueledwork Рік тому +1

      @@TheAnnoyingBoss should be 12.

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss Рік тому +21

      @@Dieselfueledwork it seems our nuke transport defense is similar strategy to that of a grand theft auto 5 online mission

    • @jonathanvilla7280
      @jonathanvilla7280 Рік тому +5

      ​@@TheAnnoyingBoss bahaha. For real. I can even smell Trevor lurking around somewhere.

  • @tayzonday
    @tayzonday Рік тому +1170

    There’s no place you could escape to with a nuclear warhead in Great Falls, MT. The greatest danger is someone trying to do a ground detonation there and causing massive fallout with modest casualties. (Modest compared to, say, Chicago).
    The fallout could irradiate a significant area of farmland depending on how the wind blew.

    • @GoatFarmer706
      @GoatFarmer706 Рік тому +103

      Indeed..
      Some will stay dry while others feel the pain

    • @nickrod32
      @nickrod32 Рік тому

      won't be no chocolate rain after that sucker blows

    • @amvlabs5339
      @amvlabs5339 Рік тому +1

      If you nuked the Dutton ranch you'd be fuuuuckkeeedd

    • @Atheism-And-Normative-Ethics
      @Atheism-And-Normative-Ethics Рік тому

      Montana is an easy entry point into US from Canada through glacier park and the roads. Kinda strange they have something so close to the border. Meth goes through there all the time. That's where cyber ninjas sent data to... A "lab" in Montana. Probably got shipped over the border to fly out of Canada into Russia

    • @Mvlvch
      @Mvlvch Рік тому +117

      Chocolate raaaaain

  • @LB-ye1fj
    @LB-ye1fj Рік тому +1368

    It’s crazy how we have such a big military and we barely see it in person, unlike smaller countries with small militaries where you see them all the time.

    • @LoneFifteen
      @LoneFifteen Рік тому +252

      If you live near a military base you'll see soldiers in uniform all the time, there's just often not much reason for them to be that far from a base most of the time if they're on home soil.

    • @TheGreenTaco999
      @TheGreenTaco999 Рік тому +91

      it's because one loves to show it due to emotional insecurity

    • @theislamicgambit4476
      @theislamicgambit4476 Рік тому +20

      Big military? Not bigger than Taliban and Vietnamese army😃

    • @ItsDevv
      @ItsDevv Рік тому +211

      ​@@theislamicgambit4476 it's bigger than both combined so...

    • @theislamicgambit4476
      @theislamicgambit4476 Рік тому +1

      @@ItsDevv America is a weak country. They do not deserve to lead the world. They were just lucky in World War II. All wars were far away from its coasts. When the Germans were fighting all of Europe, the Americans could not even defeat Japan except with two nuclear bombs.

  • @ronlucock3702
    @ronlucock3702 Рік тому +202

    I read a book called Humble Heros by Steve Bustin (the son of one of the crew), about the USS Nashville in WWII. One one occassion, it was tasked with transporting an equally precious cargo for the times - Gold, from the US to England. The gold was delivered to the ship prior to departure in much the same way as the above - multiple police & military vehicles, sirens blaring, guns drawn, surrounding the truck carrying the payload. High visibility, high security. In a typically Brittish manner, when the ship arrived in England, there was no such fanfare & noise. As the ship was due to take on other provisions, a simple bakery van arrived to collect the gold. They took some crates of bread onboard, & came back off carry crates of concealed gold! No doubt there were lots of inconspicuous eyes on them, but the whole thing was done without anyone who didn't know what was going on, knowing what was going on!

    • @TorstenHoff
      @TorstenHoff Рік тому +9

      That sounds improbable. Any significant quantity of gold is going to break the suspension of a bakery van.

    • @Wooster23
      @Wooster23 Рік тому +21

      @@TorstenHoff It might have looked like a bakery van, but had better suspension.

    • @Bullzeye1000yds
      @Bullzeye1000yds Рік тому +7

      ​@@TorstenHoffThe Brits aren't stupid.
      Sheez!

    • @Mixer-he2wb
      @Mixer-he2wb Рік тому +3

      In other words, this is how the nouveau riche move stuff.

    • @plixplop
      @plixplop Рік тому +4

      @@Wooster23 Gold suspension, gold brakes, gold transmission...

  • @aza04a
    @aza04a Рік тому +713

    They used to transport them in trailers that were indistinguishable from regular tractor trailers, but the defense capabilities developed to where that was not a priority. Interestingly they are now equipped with surprise and autonomous defense capabilities.

    • @Shred_Tube
      @Shred_Tube Рік тому +6

      oh yeah? got proof?

    • @suttree-o3r
      @suttree-o3r Рік тому +115

      ​@@Shred_Tube en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter Took me 5 seconds on Google

    • @PolishMechanik
      @PolishMechanik Рік тому +120

      @@Shred_Tube take an L

    • @Luminousreign
      @Luminousreign Рік тому +16

      It is not much of a surprise if you can just google it lol. Also I think you would need to be super lucky for the trailer to ever need to whip it’s cyberpunk turrets out

    • @Shred_Tube
      @Shred_Tube Рік тому

      @@PolishMechanik your mother takes my “L”

  • @XxShadow101xX
    @XxShadow101xX Рік тому +130

    I love seeing military vehicles in public, always an interesting sight! I once saw a semi truck lugging an Abrams around like it was your average cargo trailer. Cool!

    • @jamesbcker9494
      @jamesbcker9494 Рік тому

      Im from the raq (the real Iraq) and it was super cool watching u.s army spinnning all over!

    • @chetsenior7253
      @chetsenior7253 Рік тому

      I love not living in fear

    • @jamesbcker9494
      @jamesbcker9494 Рік тому +4

      @@chetsenior7253 what are we talking about?

    • @jonharrison3114
      @jonharrison3114 Рік тому +3

      @@chetsenior7253I don’t think you know what you are talking about

    • @matthewjones39
      @matthewjones39 Рік тому

      @@jamesbcker9494He doesn’t know

  • @tfp0052
    @tfp0052 Рік тому +76

    I was assigned to the 341st Strategic Missile Wing forty years ago. This video really tugs at the heart strings!

    • @johnehmer2747
      @johnehmer2747 Рік тому +1

      I left the 341st SMW fifty years ago to go to HQ SAC.

    • @Ghhfjbxzstuiikm
      @Ghhfjbxzstuiikm Рік тому

      Isn’t it buetifal

    • @nugzila4170
      @nugzila4170 Рік тому +2

      Transporting a killing machine tugs at your heartstrings LOL 😅

    • @Rob-bo7yn
      @Rob-bo7yn 11 місяців тому +1

      @@nugzila4170 You clearly don't understand.

    • @tonymanero5544
      @tonymanero5544 3 місяці тому

      @@nugzila4170Trump’s friends Putin and Jinping have several thousands warheads aimed at the U.S. in their strategic and tactical nuclear forces. Mutual Assured Destruction is the only thing keeping them from a first strike. But Russia is trying to bring down America via cyberattacks assisted by Trump and his u registered foreign agents.

  • @charliekeyes9381
    @charliekeyes9381 Рік тому +23

    Slept between the Missile tubes on the ssbn I was stationed on. Truly amazing to think about how firepower subs have. And how quickly it all could be over..

  • @RockPunkFloyd
    @RockPunkFloyd Рік тому +127

    Malmstrom is not the only base where this takes place, I grew up on Minot AFB, another SAC base, and Minot itself and seeing these convoys was a fairly regular occurrence.

    • @truthbebold4009
      @truthbebold4009 Рік тому +2

      Same in Fe Warren

    • @Yarpon
      @Yarpon Рік тому +3

      Being from there have you heard about the 1968 Minot UFO incident?

    • @truthbebold4009
      @truthbebold4009 Рік тому

      @Unconditional lover we need Love I use to work there in missiles but wasn't aware of or forgot that stat. Is that factual or hyperbole? Devastating 🤯

    • @RockPunkFloyd
      @RockPunkFloyd Рік тому

      @@Yarpon No, we didn't move there until 69 and I was only 7 at the time. Was living on base though when a B52 exploded after it wasn't grounded properly before refueling.

    • @f0rmaggi0
      @f0rmaggi0 Рік тому +1

      Saw it at Ellesworth AFB, South Dakota.

  • @oBseSsIoNPC
    @oBseSsIoNPC Рік тому +190

    Well, what an experience when you visit the US for the first time and got a convoy like that coming up behind you. I for one would feel guilty of something.

    • @CharleysZenZone
      @CharleysZenZone Рік тому +42

      "It's a rental! Not my fault the brake lights are out!!" 😱

    • @thedude3291
      @thedude3291 Рік тому +2

      @@CharleysZenZone 🤣🤣😂😂😅😅

    • @Angry.General1461
      @Angry.General1461 Рік тому +5

      ​@@thedude3291 Must be transferring the UFO Roswell wreckage from Area 51 to its new location!

    • @oBseSsIoNPC
      @oBseSsIoNPC Рік тому

      @@CharleysZenZone lol 🤣

    • @americanpatriot2.06
      @americanpatriot2.06 Рік тому +4

      As one who has been on one of those convoys, you won't see it behind you because the road will be blocked of by all law enforcement agencies at least a mile ahead. If you do happen to somehow manage to get onto the road, you'll be thanking GOD for saving your life after being forced off the road and have a shit ton of guns pointing at you. Once they determine you are not a threat, they'll clear out when one of the U.S. Marshals detain you and your day becomes a living nightmare.

  • @djobidjoba6143
    @djobidjoba6143 Рік тому +42

    Don’t be fooled, that’s “Optimus Prime” they’re escorting 👀

  • @plixplop
    @plixplop Рік тому +68

    Meanwhile, the real warhead is being transported on a side road in the back of an old PT Cruiser

    • @joeylawn36111
      @joeylawn36111 8 місяців тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @andrewyoonhobai8453
      @andrewyoonhobai8453 6 місяців тому

      those guys spill blood all the time, you know gangbangas and the prisoners. The real warheads are you know, what idiot says they keep em all in one place, or even in a bunker or prison. Peaceful men, never go to prison as they say, they live among us as doges

    • @Loki1701e
      @Loki1701e 9 днів тому

      No

  • @einherjar8585
    @einherjar8585 Рік тому +101

    I grew up in Great Falls. I remember when two flights of missiles failed, back in the late 60's. They trucked the missiles intact on flatbeds through town via 10th ave S, back to Spokane. Had to move the traffic lights.
    Saw some weird stuff, growing up there. Way stranger than malfunctioning missiles, lol.

    • @Shred_Tube
      @Shred_Tube Рік тому +12

      .....like what kind of weird stuff?

    • @dinosaurking3733
      @dinosaurking3733 Рік тому +3

      nuclear waste pasta maybe? i wonder how many flavors there would be

    • @ShadowDeus
      @ShadowDeus Рік тому

      yeah the shit you see living by bases...
      about 6 years ago thought i saw a huge ass white boomerang shaped UFO silently float through the cloudy skies one night like a giant single winged glider... and just a couple months ago what i saw was unvailed ...i think... i mean what i saw float by was also pure white however i had no sound. if the new bomber is also silent or can go into a glide mode then yeah its what i saw... if not, then ...aliens?
      lol

    • @777SFINN777
      @777SFINN777 Рік тому +24

      My brother's friend who's a Mesa AZ police officer tried to stop a normal looking semi truck with one of those big chrome tanks on the back going like 90 miles an hour on the US 60 with only its overhead orange lights on. He said 3 black SUV's boxed the squad car and made him pull over and guys with vests and M4s got out pointing their weapons at him. This was all like at 1am in the morning.

    • @landondull2372
      @landondull2372 Рік тому +3

      My dad grew up in great falls, he’s had some similar stories too.

  • @willywonka2164
    @willywonka2164 Рік тому +60

    The last vehicle appeared to be some sort of maintenance vehicle in case of breakdown. I’d like to think it’s just some normal Joe that gets to take a really fun trip address town.

    • @americanpatriot2.06
      @americanpatriot2.06 Рік тому +18

      As a retired Air Force Vehicle Mechanic, I can confirm the last truck was the Vehicle Maintenance Support Vehicle. The primary mechanic has to be at least a TSgt (E6) and be certified to maintain all Nuclear Certified vehicles/equipment. A trainee is allowed with the primary mechanic and must be at least a SrA (E4). The primary support is for the missile/warhead transport. All other vehicles are required to pull off to the side and wait for the backup maintenance support that is staged at the halfway point of the convoy route or five mile behind the convoy if the halfway point has already been passed. The primary vehicle support never leaves the convoy unless directed by the convoy lead or it breaks down. The alternate vehicle support will join the convoy if the primary breaks down.

    • @謬
      @謬 Рік тому

      Boom boom squad.

    • @skrimper
      @skrimper Рік тому +3

      ​@@americanpatriot2.06 thanks for the detailed info

    • @Ghhfjbxzstuiikm
      @Ghhfjbxzstuiikm Рік тому

      @@americanpatriot2.06 what’s stopping the truck from exploding and damaging the payload in the event of a crash or attack?

    • @chrishenniker5944
      @chrishenniker5944 Рік тому

      @@americanpatriot2.06 I bet you’re also used for VIP convoys too. I can see you accompanying the state car when Old Jug Ears comes to town, at the back of the convoy, in case the state car breaks down.

  • @tomlorenzen4062
    @tomlorenzen4062 Рік тому +251

    At least it was so stealthy that no one knew what was going on....

    • @DilliganGames
      @DilliganGames Рік тому

      You go poke the nuke 👍

    • @callumbreton8930
      @callumbreton8930 Рік тому +22

      If it was stealthy, they wouldn't be able to have as much protection on it, meaning an enemy spy just has to be in position to know where and when it moves and bam, missing nuke

    • @drifter_jake
      @drifter_jake Рік тому +43

      It's a decoy truck. The real one says swift on the side.

    • @dzl6848
      @dzl6848 Рік тому +19

      @@drifter_jake ok I'll look in the ditch for it. Lol

    • @licktin1091
      @licktin1091 Рік тому +9

      More like “try and take it from us”

  • @LuisCipher
    @LuisCipher Рік тому +12

    I always have one of three songs in my head when there is a driving assignment, "Convoy," "On the Road Again," or "More Human than Human," depending on the speed protocol SOP/MOP. I never transported Special Weapons, but have been a VIP Transport, Escort, Company Driver, Tactical & Utility, and Ambulance Driver. Just before I got out of the USMC I was attached to Admin and got a Driver Designation/Advanced Driving School then TADs (Temporary Assigned Duties) for the last year and a half. Got injured on duty and had surgeries and rehabilitation so after a couple weeks of recovery they sent me to Driver School, then took a follow-up course with advanced driving skills, then they assigned me TADs, and I drove all kinds of vehicles depending on the assignments. For my last Assignment, I drove a Field Ambulance, 4-wheel drive with a 3rd axle free roller& a dually set-up, and a high-lift suspension system. I could go just about anywhere in that thing. It didn't float, but it did have a snorkel intake and a high exhaust tailpipe that went to the roof of the truck. That Ambulance was awesome, because of its capabilities I never lost a patient. Its versatility provided the ability to go just about anywhere and when you needed it, it had the power and speed to get you there fast.

    • @BentleyTypeR
      @BentleyTypeR Рік тому +1

      "Well it was the 6th of June in a Kenworth haulin' logs"

    • @SSS-bd6li
      @SSS-bd6li Рік тому

      Thank you for your service. Fellow Marine, btw. Anyhow, hope you are getting your VA benefits...as you deserve.

  • @EyeMaMoeRahn
    @EyeMaMoeRahn Рік тому +16

    I like how there’s a hazmat placard on the side of the trailer. As if a chemical response team would need to identify it for clean up 😂

    • @bm03431
      @bm03431 Рік тому

      There's a video of a superload hauling part of a nuclear reactor... more police and escorts than this... amidst all the lights they still had to put the class 7 radioactive placards on it.

  • @DavidMcCoyII
    @DavidMcCoyII Рік тому +63

    That semi truck ought to get to citation for following too close 😆

    • @who_wantsit
      @who_wantsit Рік тому +8

      True! Although the Federal government owns the road that they are using, so no rules for them!

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 Рік тому +5

      Since i used to do these, i want to know who is going to stop us to give us the ticket..

    • @DavidMcCoyII
      @DavidMcCoyII Рік тому +1

      @@floridaboz1 it's a joke, but of course the federal government don't have a sense of humor that they’re aware of 😆

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 Рік тому +9

      @@DavidMcCoyII If the government wanted me to have a sense of humor, they would of assigned me one.. lol

    • @TheGreenTaco999
      @TheGreenTaco999 Рік тому

      @@floridaboz1 based Dave is based as always

  • @rays7437
    @rays7437 Рік тому +87

    I saw something like this one time in the middle of the night. All the trucks and vans were black, the state police had lights on but not sirens, and in the middle of the convoy was a flatbed truck with a giant "tube" with the word "Titan" on the side of it. It happened a few miles outside of Los Angeles.

    • @jaybeee4003
      @jaybeee4003 Рік тому

      That was just a dildo on its way to San Fran

    • @TheTrueAnswer
      @TheTrueAnswer Рік тому +15

      That's a hazardous chemical transport

    • @Tee19691
      @Tee19691 Рік тому

      Yes, why wasn't this done at night? By doing this during the day was get get attention and put people into frenzy that we are going into WWIII.
      Interesting this day parade was done 1 day after 1/6 rhetoric from this administration was shattered by exposing their lies.

    • @atadbitnefarious1387
      @atadbitnefarious1387 Рік тому +56

      If you manage to get up close, there's typically a sign on the back of the tuck.
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      It says "Titan deez nuts"

    • @NorCalMtnBiker86
      @NorCalMtnBiker86 Рік тому +6

      @@atadbitnefarious1387 That was fuckin great 😂😂🤣🤣

  • @ismaelestrada9162
    @ismaelestrada9162 Рік тому +108

    my family and I used to live on Malmstrom Air Force Base. my dad was stationed there and did two tours in Iraq in support of OIF. Sadly he has since passed away. He developed cancer shortly after parting ways with the service. Man fought for awhile. Passed real young. miss that guy, man.

    • @chrisvibz4753
      @chrisvibz4753 8 місяців тому +1

      i thank your father for his honorable service, Ismael. thank you as his son for supporting that warrior also. god bless son.

  • @dustinandrews3223
    @dustinandrews3223 Рік тому +106

    Not nearly as long as the Presidential motorcade, but more armor for sure.

    • @licktin1091
      @licktin1091 Рік тому +38

      Considering the president gets like 300 death threats a month, I can understand. But the death of a president doesn’t have as much impact (literally and figuratively) as a nuclear bomb, so the armor makes sense on this part too.

    • @alexm566
      @alexm566 Рік тому +11

      the president uses planes for most of his travel, convoy is only for the last leg.

    • @jhopkins213
      @jhopkins213 Рік тому +26

      For a Presidential motorcade, you wouldn't see a civilian vehicle on that road for 2 miles in either direction.

    • @Ovken
      @Ovken 25 днів тому

      @@licktin1091 are you dumb? The death of a president has a huge impact. And a nuclear bomb can't die? wtf

  • @glenng7085
    @glenng7085 Рік тому +266

    I remember as a kid of the 60's, I would often see missiles being transported on big flatbed trucks just covered with a tarp! And maybe a troop truck and a couple of Jeep's..and that was all the security!
    Of course it was a different time in this country and I remember that my family in the car would comment on the fact that we were driving right next to a nuclear missile 😰😊
    But it was mixed emotions I describe as feeling both pride in the USA and terrified as well!

    • @nckhed
      @nckhed Рік тому

      How will you feel after they decide to use their weapons against us?

    • @pilot778spartan3
      @pilot778spartan3 Рік тому +4

      Sometimes you can take pride and appreciation in the old days or be quite concerned if you’d be able to spread the next generation either way still an experience most will remember but most won’t experience

    • @glenng7085
      @glenng7085 Рік тому

      @@nckhed who is they?

    • @stuwest3653
      @stuwest3653 Рік тому +20

      That wasn't a nuclear warhead.

    • @OldHeadFPS
      @OldHeadFPS Рік тому

      @@stuwest3653 yeah it was the Loki in a box 😂

  • @mikemorris1760
    @mikemorris1760 Рік тому +188

    With as many warheads that have been damaged or destroyed in airplane crashes
    (Unassembled ) it’s not a bad idea to transport them with a big security team.
    Besides outside of the city in either direction is nothing but enormous second third and fourth generation ranches/farms that are generally tens of thousands of acres big.

    • @alexm566
      @alexm566 Рік тому

      What's to prevent terrorists from attack the convoy then if it wasn't heavily armed?

    • @mikesixx7655
      @mikesixx7655 Рік тому +32

      @@alexm566 do you see a lack of a security team?

    • @colonelJ77
      @colonelJ77 Рік тому +24

      I read your comment several times. What the hell are you trying to communicate?

    • @phuckcommies6917
      @phuckcommies6917 Рік тому

      They have roaming nukes all threw the country on eighteen wheelers ready to go

    • @TheTrueAnswer
      @TheTrueAnswer Рік тому +7

      Lol, and American through and through. I wouldn't be surprised if some rancher came out and defended the convoy himself if it came under fire.

  • @RobbyTripp
    @RobbyTripp Рік тому +7

    Man that is amazing. Especially the distance between those escorts and the semi.

    • @sce2aux464
      @sce2aux464 Рік тому

      "How was your day?"
      "Great. Got rear-ended by a thermonuclear bomb."

  • @montvilleo
    @montvilleo 8 місяців тому +5

    Was in the AF for four years at Malmstrom from '87 to '91. Fond memories.

  • @taggartjs
    @taggartjs Рік тому +41

    Spent most of my life in Minot, ND. Saw this all the time. The bitch was, if you couldn’t get ahead of them at an intersection on the highway, you’d be stuck for a half hour while you waited.

  • @nmelkhunter1
    @nmelkhunter1 Рік тому +3

    I was on my way to Buffalo, Wyoming to hunt pronghorn and muleys and was delayed near Cheyenne by a convoy like this. I didn’t know what it was until I picked up a friend in Cheyenne who works a UPS route in the area. He said it was a semi common occurrence and he always found it fascinating.

  • @GM8101PHX
    @GM8101PHX Рік тому +3

    I served as Air Force Security Police for 6 years, 4.5 at Fairchild AFB where we had B-52G's and KC-135A's on 15 minute ground alert ready to launch! We did small convoys with the weapons from the Bomber Alert Area to the Weapons Storage Area which was an old Department of Energy storage facility. We were always assisted by the Spokane County Sheriff and or the Washington State Police to shut down roads that intersected with our route. Only one time did anyone get close, he was trying to film the convoy and was arrested by the sheriff's deputies assisting us. Never a single mishap!!

  • @mattweger437
    @mattweger437 Рік тому +44

    I like the trucks with the active scanning PMS radar systems. Wonder what they're capable of

    • @dennissvitak148
      @dennissvitak148 Рік тому +15

      I would think radar jamming ECM, or ECCM. Stop any guided or homing missile.

    • @DesertDog
      @DesertDog Рік тому +2

      This is why you use unguided

    • @ridhosamudro2199
      @ridhosamudro2199 Рік тому +1

      ​@@DesertDog dude never played any flight game lmao

    • @LawDawg717
      @LawDawg717 Рік тому +6

      I don't need to a radar system to determine if my wife has PMS. It's pretty self evident.

    • @BenCos2018
      @BenCos2018 Рік тому +1

      @@LawDawg717 haha

  • @thepilotman5378
    @thepilotman5378 Рік тому +88

    Remember, you can crash a F-4 phantom into that trailer at Mach 1.6 and the warhead will still be safe

    • @CallMeUbba
      @CallMeUbba Рік тому +10

      That is insane

    • @KevinSun242
      @KevinSun242 Рік тому +105

      What about a Nissan Altima on two donut spares though?

    • @DertyMike
      @DertyMike Рік тому +34

      @@KevinSun242 asking the real questions

    • @arnoldsherrill2585
      @arnoldsherrill2585 Рік тому +35

      Those transport trailers can take a hit from a RPG and barely scratch the paint from the impact., If you notice the truck at the front with the jamming equipment on board, that is to take care of the problem with drones by jamming signals across the spectrum that drones use for control. What people who are commenting on this video don't realize, is that the Air Force has decades of experience moving these missiles. The security details have done scenarios and training you and I could never even think of
      Anyone who thinks taking one of these convoys out of commission is going to be easy, is in for a extremely nasty surprise. Security forces troops assigned to a convoy detail, are going to give 0 F...., If you are dumb enough to get in the way, try to stop it and you will truly find out what f*** around and find out actually means with them.

    • @VaporheadATC
      @VaporheadATC Рік тому +3

      Wrong. You are thinking about a spent fuel rod flask form a nuclear power plant.

  • @thefieldphoneguy8254
    @thefieldphoneguy8254 Рік тому +1

    White pickup trucks with the toppers and all the antennas on the racks located in front/behind the armored Bearcats surrounding the "package" are used for counter drone protection

  • @frankbeans5921
    @frankbeans5921 Рік тому +105

    They must do so much training for this. It is extremely hard to operate a prime mover that close to a lead vehicle for extended periods. Concentration overload!

    • @justanotherguy469
      @justanotherguy469 Рік тому +8

      Perhaps the prime mover is not being driven by a person because the vehicle in the front and the one in the back are in perfect sync.

    • @adoe2305
      @adoe2305 Рік тому +3

      Wym. It's cake.

    • @Kr0n1kTh3Kl0wn
      @Kr0n1kTh3Kl0wn Рік тому +34

      Bro, it's a NUKE. It's people driving, not Tesla autopilot.

    • @KevinSun242
      @KevinSun242 Рік тому +96

      Or just hire RAM 1500 drivers. They have plenty of experience tailgating a truck that close.

    • @geezus7833
      @geezus7833 Рік тому

      it's called cruise control moron

  • @almilhouse9059
    @almilhouse9059 Рік тому +15

    That's a serious show of force, there if ever needed.... That would be some serious shootout....

    • @justanotherguy1110
      @justanotherguy1110 Рік тому

      Wouldn't go over well though for the person dumb enough to try it.

    • @MeerkatADV
      @MeerkatADV Рік тому +5

      Wouldn't be very serious at all. You'd need an infantry company and ATGM's to even get them to slow down.

    • @nqgames2954
      @nqgames2954 Рік тому +7

      ​@MeerkatADV yeah that semi isn't stopping for anything. It and it's escort would keep on Rollin and the other guys in the rear would turn you into Swiss cheese lol.

    • @LukeKeeganN
      @LukeKeeganN Рік тому

      @@nqgames2954 How about explosives to the drive tires? If you could get close enough without being noticed, which isn't likely.

  • @Blaze_1961
    @Blaze_1961 Рік тому +60

    "I can neither confirm nor deny the absence or presence of special weapons onboard the USS Wabash AOR-5". This is what I had to remember when I served in the Navy. I'm sure this is damn close to what these guys would have to say for their unit if asked.

    • @hsimpson7267
      @hsimpson7267 Рік тому +14

      That is what I tell the cops when I get pulled over too

    • @jamestheredd
      @jamestheredd Рік тому

      Haha wild!

    • @johnjones5354
      @johnjones5354 Рік тому +9

      "it is the policy of the US Navy to neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons onboard our ships and aircraft".

    • @NewmanAttack
      @NewmanAttack Рік тому

      Surface ships no longer carry warheads. Subs on the other hand...

    • @greggilliam8870
      @greggilliam8870 Рік тому +5

      back in 91 at F.E. Warren AFB we were told to say " we could neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on base" now granted parked right by the main gate were static displays of a minuteman 3 and peace keeper missles lol so yea we were really covert lol

  • @strtrper628
    @strtrper628 13 днів тому +1

    I remember those days at Grand Forks. Escorted by a Deputy US Marshal

  • @RyderSchäfer2002
    @RyderSchäfer2002 Рік тому +33

    Ive done many convoys during my time in the Air Force, they are never boring lol

  • @colechapman6976
    @colechapman6976 Рік тому +46

    The actual nuke is in the back of a 2012 Subaru Crosstrek going 45 MPH in the left lane

    • @ge2623
      @ge2623 Рік тому +2

      That narrows it down to every single Subaru in the country.😁

    • @KevinSun242
      @KevinSun242 Рік тому +3

      Just takes one Nissan Altima going at Mach 3 to cause a broken arrow incident.

    • @elonmust7470
      @elonmust7470 Рік тому

      You win first prize for being unoriginal as hell...

    • @t23001
      @t23001 Рік тому +2

      Any bad guys that make it to the Nukbaru will be beaten with kayak paddles and then be fed to the very fit German Shepard in the backseat.

    • @harveywallbanger3123
      @harveywallbanger3123 Рік тому

      You'd only do that as a response to a direct threat, not as normal course of business. Because the highway is a dangerous place even the other 99.999% of the time when the convoy's not being attacked. If the Subaru gets into a serious wreck the nuke is going to burn on the highway. Or what if they get carjacked at McDonalds?

  • @OfficialSamuelC
    @OfficialSamuelC Рік тому +15

    I’d love to get to see the behind the scenes training for attacks on these convoys using dummy ‘nuke’ trucks and what they do for each scenario, such as a car, truck ramming or a huge hauler. What counter measures are deployed and so on. Guess we will never know for sure!

    • @youtubeviewer5198
      @youtubeviewer5198 Рік тому +3

      Special routes to never go over or under a bridge like structure? Or extra security checks for any bridge like structure? U know incase the plan was to drop a bridge to stop the convoy

    • @PondPuppies
      @PondPuppies Рік тому +1

      Join Air Force Security Forces go PRP and get your Secret clearance. You can find out yourself.

    • @budguy21
      @budguy21 Рік тому +2

      @@PondPuppies or Army MP with PRP

    • @mattme2789
      @mattme2789 20 годин тому

      Guess you could find out by waiting for a convoy & making a run at it.... But sadly I don't think you'd be able to let us know what you saw! 😂 😂 😂 😂

  • @hazwell6811
    @hazwell6811 Рік тому

    1:03 the newer GMCs of the same year and model are likely part of the convoy too, just a bit more "incognito" for eyes in the back

  • @dannyheath8876
    @dannyheath8876 Рік тому +40

    Transporting 10% for the big guy!

  • @xnopyt13
    @xnopyt13 Рік тому +14

    It’s interesting that they chose to use a rare cabover Freightliner Argosy as the tractor, I have never seen one in the wild.

    • @maddogmorgan1
      @maddogmorgan1 Рік тому +2

      Come to Aussie, every 2nd truck is one

    • @RealJeep
      @RealJeep Рік тому

      The DoD bought a bunch of those old day cabs. Some guy who does UA-cams in central Florida bought one to haul farm tractors around on.

    • @rollingacresfarmstead206
      @rollingacresfarmstead206 Рік тому +1

      you know damn well thats emissions free as well🤣🤣

    • @xnopyt13
      @xnopyt13 Рік тому

      @@maddogmorgan1 true, most pictures online show Australian models.

    • @xnopyt13
      @xnopyt13 Рік тому

      @@RealJeep interesting

  • @TheOverObsessive
    @TheOverObsessive Рік тому +8

    This is like the airfield base in GTA. You get to 5 stars and they send the army after you 😅

    • @Johnnyblash123
      @Johnnyblash123 2 місяці тому

      is it a airfield or a base make up your mind

    • @mattme2789
      @mattme2789 21 годину тому

      ​@@Johnnyblash123he told you... It's an airfield base!!! Haven't you been?

  • @endotimez9086
    @endotimez9086 7 місяців тому +1

    My dad was in the AF and I graduated from CMR in '82. The town has always been a tan and brown color. This video shows me that it hasn't changed much. 😄

  • @traider7777
    @traider7777 Рік тому +6

    The front and back vehicles in the convoy should have a large sign saying: “SWIPER NO SWIPING”‼️

  • @rzero21
    @rzero21 Рік тому +4

    quite interesting how close the convoy and big truck drive together

  • @grantinternational8203
    @grantinternational8203 Рік тому +5

    Ooooooh, so this is what I saw a few weeks ago rolling through the streets of Detroit of all places!!! I couldn’t imagine what that 18 wheeler was hauling with all that security! Unbelievable…..

    • @ReeseChown
      @ReeseChown Рік тому +4

      I've seen it too! Likely going to or from Selfridge Airforce Base, but don't quote me on that

  • @Jayzone702
    @Jayzone702 2 місяці тому +2

    “Why were you late to work?” “They were transporting a nuke across town”

  • @visibletoallusersonyoutube9708

    Witnessed something like this when I was driving down I5 south by the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant! They shut down the entire free way in front of me, and on the opposite side there was this massive convoy of military/police vehicles transporting a vehicle just like this. I assumed it was coming from either Camp Pendleton, or North Island in Coronado

  • @wk961
    @wk961 Рік тому +5

    A friend of a friend who was in the army told me about these convoys. I thought he exaggerated when he told me there are 2 helicopters as part of the convoy.

  • @jamesvedder1143
    @jamesvedder1143 Рік тому +3

    Imagine driving behind that convoy just scared shitless that you do something wrong and they see you as a threat. Then all of a sudden there's .50 calibers of freedom flying through your windshield

  • @Cankersoar
    @Cankersoar Місяць тому +1

    In high school i was riding up to the ski hill with some buddies and passed one of these convoys. My friend driving was white knuckling the whole time in the passing lane.

  • @NeverPayPig
    @NeverPayPig Рік тому +7

    I love you, Montana.
    Be the mountain that never moves. The wall that never cracks.

    • @UndoingRuin08
      @UndoingRuin08 Рік тому +1

      the heat to your flame. the marshmallow to your smore. the magic to your mushrooms.

    • @jamestheredd
      @jamestheredd Рік тому

      What is happening here?

    • @christopher7763
      @christopher7763 Рік тому

      @@jamestheredd you wouldn’t understand 😏

  • @PetesGuide
    @PetesGuide Рік тому +15

    That’s, what, 18 vehicles in the convoy, counting the semi? Plus at least two choppers. Impressive!

    • @謬
      @謬 Рік тому +2

      But... global warming..

    • @TonyCox1351
      @TonyCox1351 Рік тому +1

      @@謬 lmao are you suggesting that we should protect our nukes less to counter global warming 😂😂

    • @謬
      @謬 Рік тому

      @@TonyCox1351 well according to corn pop, it's straight white men and global warming that are the biggest threat to our democracy. Not the freedom fireworks.

    • @TonyCox1351
      @TonyCox1351 Рік тому +1

      @@謬 I dont know what you're referring to, or who corn pop is, but even if global warming is a real threat, you would want to cut in other areas, not in transporting nuclear weapons. You're being ridiculous.

    • @謬
      @謬 Рік тому

      @@TonyCox1351 I'm not the one who's saying it's important. Good ol Corn Pop is. 🤓

  • @man-observing-world
    @man-observing-world Рік тому +5

    Great camera work by this person, especially because they started filming before the real fun Evan began.

  • @ravinraven6913
    @ravinraven6913 8 місяців тому +1

    oh hey, my friend lives in great falls, say hi to Greg for me!
    in Texas they just have them on trains and wrapped up. No escort or nothing. Just a train running through the middle of town during an unscheduled time.

  • @12890mrkickass
    @12890mrkickass Рік тому +12

    When your presidents brain is mashed potatoes, nukes are probably more important

  • @BBVDZX14
    @BBVDZX14 Рік тому +6

    These are members of the 343rd and 344th Security Police Squadron. This convoy is running 10th Ave S. East towards Malmstrom AFB and stops for NOTHING. Stay safe Defenders!

  • @JohnBoyJoy
    @JohnBoyJoy Рік тому +7

    it's amazing that they've actually "lost" so many nuclear warheads.

    • @mechadeka
      @mechadeka Рік тому

      Stop learning "history" from MGS.

    • @JohnBoyJoy
      @JohnBoyJoy Рік тому

      @@mechadeka nice reference

  • @tomcline5631
    @tomcline5631 Рік тому +1

    Grew up just north east of KCMO,about 45/60 mins north-ish of Whitman Air Force Base,now home of the B-2 bombers,then home of a shit ton of B-52s and missle command personnel. Used to those cool ass looking low slung cab forward Peterbuilt trucks with the mobile ICBM trailers. There were ICBM silos all around down by Sedalia,plus things like deactivated Nike missile silos. Use to see all kinds of stuff on the highways and on the railroads.
    Saw flights of B-52s everyday almost,during those aluminum umbrella days! We were on the climb out airway when they were heading up North. We were far enough away that were pretty damn high,but they would still just throb and rumble your guts! Didn't really hear em as much as you felt them! At least a flight of 4 sometimes as many as 12!!
    Awesome and terrifying time to be alive and in school! Up to the mid 80s we had nuke drills almost as much as tornado drills!
    Amazing things those old school desks, weren't they?

    • @lindaj5492
      @lindaj5492 Рік тому

      Old school desk about as useful as a paper bag over your head 😂

  • @FordMustangGTRocks
    @FordMustangGTRocks Рік тому +5

    Really cool to see, ive seen huge convoys on the way from Co to Tx kinda like this

  • @doomfanboy9413
    @doomfanboy9413 Рік тому +52

    man truly I feel bad for anyone dumb enough to try and steal one of those bad boys imagine having one of those armored vehicles crash into yours at even 30mph

    • @richyoung4051
      @richyoung4051 Рік тому

      or have 50 cal bullets turn you to chop meat 🤣

    • @adoe2305
      @adoe2305 Рік тому +1

      Who said anything about steal?

    • @jerfguy
      @jerfguy Рік тому

      I was picturing Russia or China, how they march them down the main street for the world to see.

    • @doomfanboy9413
      @doomfanboy9413 Рік тому

      @@adoe2305 well it wouldn't make sense to destroy it as we have thousands of other nukes lmao imagine being so fucking dumb you try to destroy one singular nuke.
      unless that nuke was about to be launched then it would be a different story.

    • @AzureLupine
      @AzureLupine Рік тому +2

      Giving they're not allowed to stop as part of the assignment and very big. The only thing that would happen is they become a large speed bump. Which would also be a neat video.

  • @floridaboz1
    @floridaboz1 Рік тому +23

    I just want to say as someone who used to do this job, i love reading your comments and seeing what people think......

    • @the_black_arts
      @the_black_arts 24 дні тому

      I did it too, missileer @ 91st MW @ Minot AFB for most of the nineties. I can only laugh at the confidence with which so many people here speak about things of which they have absolutely, positively no idea 😂

  • @DSplatter
    @DSplatter Рік тому +2

    From what I understand, as soon as one exits a military installation, it’s actually the DOE that transports / Provides security. Apparently a pretty capable group of shooters that transports it all.

    • @jewishpenguin_9228
      @jewishpenguin_9228 Рік тому +1

      This is false

    • @shawnmorse5770
      @shawnmorse5770 Рік тому +1

      ⁠​⁠@@jewishpenguin_9228The transport of nuclear materials in the U.S. is done by The Office of Secure Transportation (OST.) They fall under the Department of Energy. So, OP is right

    • @Col_Crunch
      @Col_Crunch 10 місяців тому

      @@shawnmorse5770 That is incorrect. DOE and DOD are each responsible for different parts of the nuclear arsenal. DOD and DOE each have their own procedures for transporting (though from what I understand they are fairly unified, especially when it comes to the equipment). This convoy is an Air Force convoy, not an OST convoy. OST would not have the DOD assets, nor the marked air force SF and OSI units.

    • @Col_Crunch
      @Col_Crunch 10 місяців тому

      Nope, DOE's OST is responsible for different assets than the air force is.

  • @bigqwertycat
    @bigqwertycat Рік тому +4

    I'm just waiting for the joker to come out and hijack the cargo. Hopefully Batman is in town.

  • @lilomelet68
    @lilomelet68 Рік тому +4

    Cant belive that Semi would tailgate so closely

  • @christopherharner9711
    @christopherharner9711 Рік тому +8

    Yup. I used to live on Minot AFB ND. This is a nuclear ICBM being moved. I Saw those exact convoys and trailers several times. While I was there I remember one transport truck crash and the big hubalaloo it caused.

    • @Norp-i7m
      @Norp-i7m 4 місяці тому

      A truck crashed with a warhead onboard? When was this?

  • @oktfg
    @oktfg 11 місяців тому +1

    Looks well protected. But no plan B in case things go wrong compared to the same transfers in England that include spare tractors, command vehicles, ambulances and fire engines.

  • @anony88
    @anony88 Рік тому +18

    I almost went to work as a driver for one of those semi trucks a few years ago for the Dept of energy and they only offered me around $55k. I laughed and never called back. I can drive normal freight for more.. That job also requires you to go through combat training and carry a rifle, and requires trucking and some sort of military/law enforcement experience.. Which I have, but thats a lot of requirements for such low pay.

    • @adoe2305
      @adoe2305 Рік тому +3

      What about benefits?

    • @itswift
      @itswift Рік тому

      I saw a convoy similar to this one outside of the Limerick Generating Station (south east PA). No helicopters that I can remember, but definitely 3 or 4 armored vehicles before and after the truck. I just assumed that it fuel for the nuke plant. I'm guessing same type of drivers, and only slightly less dangerous payload.

    • @cw4956
      @cw4956 Рік тому

      … but do you get per diem?

    • @cw4956
      @cw4956 Рік тому

      Jk

    • @MudlangenTango
      @MudlangenTango Рік тому

      ​@@ttktopherkeep saying that.
      You just might want to search open source material regarding what the D.O.E. may or may not move and how it is moved

  • @gavinvalentino1313
    @gavinvalentino1313 Рік тому +5

    You just *know* all those civilian cars behind the convoy blew the hell out of all the stoplights too~

    • @Nick-gb4rt
      @Nick-gb4rt Рік тому

      those are just undercover escorts

  • @daryllect6659
    @daryllect6659 Рік тому +4

    "Movin' thru Montana soon
    Designed to make a great big boom..."
    RIP Frank

  • @greggilliam8870
    @greggilliam8870 Рік тому

    92nd OMMS here back in 90-91 F.E. Warren AFB some good times were had back then and been on more then 1 of those lauch facilities

  • @cizzlen07
    @cizzlen07 Рік тому +6

    These guys have some of the coolest careers out there.

    • @JuaniPodrido
      @JuaniPodrido Рік тому

      The guys that develope these or the guys who transport it?

    • @Maimkillburn69
      @Maimkillburn69 Рік тому

      It’s cool but you have to live in the middle of nowhere freezing your tits off

  • @jimmyboi492
    @jimmyboi492 Рік тому +5

    The real crime here is that town putting two furniture stores right next to each other. That’s suspicious 🤔

    • @4lifejeph
      @4lifejeph Рік тому

      All mattress stores are money laundering fronts. How many people do you ever see go in one of those places?

    • @Col_Crunch
      @Col_Crunch 10 місяців тому

      If they're both next to each other its harder to tell which one is the money laundering business

  • @StabbyMcStabwood
    @StabbyMcStabwood Рік тому +31

    If you knew how many they've lost over the years, you'd be asking why there wasn't a larger escort

  • @thomashogan9896
    @thomashogan9896 2 місяці тому +1

    I love the "Explosives" label on the side of the truck. You're not wrong lol...

  • @feliciasbeard
    @feliciasbeard Рік тому +7

    It wasn't an ICBM, but is was something serious, going across North TX several years ago. Several unmarked tractor trailers, like I have never seen before, with matte paint and security front and back. I drove through on their green lights for miles before I had to turn. Fastest drive home ever.

    • @lindseychartier511
      @lindseychartier511 Рік тому +1

      It was a monster

    • @UndoingRuin08
      @UndoingRuin08 Рік тому

      @@lindseychartier511 North TX, probably el chupacabra

    • @lindseychartier511
      @lindseychartier511 Рік тому

      Something busted through the veil from another dimension that's why so much tight security

    • @egg-iu3fe
      @egg-iu3fe Рік тому

      it could even be a nasa telescope or something

    • @lindaj5492
      @lindaj5492 Рік тому

      They probably had you thoroughly checked out as soon as you started tagging along: luckily you came up ‘clean’ 😮

  • @untermench3502
    @untermench3502 Рік тому +5

    Many, if not most f the weapons are being transported to a refurbishing facility for routine overhaul. Depending on the type of physics package, they have to be serviced on a fixed schedule, so they can be ready if needed.

  • @jimmyjay86
    @jimmyjay86 Рік тому +5

    We can all be grateful this didn't go by train through Ohio.

  • @kevinrichards3288
    @kevinrichards3288 Рік тому +1

    A cabover semi, wow I don't see many of those on the roads here in the USA🇺🇸 anymore. I use to see them everywhere back in the 1980s & down. Nowadays conventional cabs are the most common.

  • @jerickstudios596
    @jerickstudios596 Рік тому +5

    The president doesn't need protection anyway, he just needs a nursing home.

  • @LinkLich
    @LinkLich Рік тому +5

    Well... it's not on a train... got to be good news right?

  • @citizen-7xl5
    @citizen-7xl5 Рік тому +3

    Generally a good idea to have a strong presence when you’re rolling around with a nuke.

  • @doxielain2231
    @doxielain2231 Місяць тому +1

    Are the white trucks with cage like things on the roof anti-drone vehicles?

  • @slapshot1343
    @slapshot1343 Рік тому +4

    BEST VIDEOS ON UA-cam!!!!!

  • @Giambis
    @Giambis Рік тому +9

    There was some stink some years back when I was liaison with homeland security and we had a top priority convoy to transport from south Texas to another area in southwest Texas. The front three trucks were Ford F350s with grill guards (I was in the back seat) and we literally rammed a car off the road that was impeding traffic. I was told later the sheriff spoke to the woman and basically explained that it was her problem and it’s an issue with her insurance. I was subpoenaed to a deposition for a lawsuit that she filed on the government and the federal guidelines and law are very clear………….you are given three honks followed by a verbal warning on a PA to move or you will be removed from the roadway with force up to and including deadly force and could be filed on for interfering with a government operation if you impede traffic. Well she was pitted off the road and into a ditch, we continued driving and a year later she lost her court case, her insurance had to pay for the damages that we caused because she is stupid and cannot follow instructions and since she caused such a stink over the matter the county sheriffs department actually subpoenaed her a citation later for impeding traffic.
    There’s about a 100% chance that if you’re being told by a security force for the federal government transporting some type of cargo to get out of the way it is far more important that we’re doing we do versus whatever it is you’re doing at that time. You’re just simply going to point a to point B and usually aimlessly without any significant purpose. We are doing it and that purpose is a direct result of the security of this nation Even if you had someone in your car dying from a heart attack the government will probably still see that cargo that’s being transported more of a priority. We were not allowed to know what we were transporting but I asked one of the guys in the truck what it was and he said “it’s not some bullshit M4’s or grenades I’ll say that much”.

    • @jasonh5547
      @jasonh5547 Рік тому

      National security takes precedence over everything.

    • @ghostferatu6241
      @ghostferatu6241 3 місяці тому

      @@jasonh5547
      *the profits of Jewish banksters
      ftfy

    • @ghostferatu6241
      @ghostferatu6241 3 місяці тому

      Thank you for your service to Israel.

  • @richardchargingcloud6590
    @richardchargingcloud6590 Рік тому +9

    fun fact: Every citizen in Great Falls, MT gets their own ICBM. wat a great place

  • @trulyinfamous
    @trulyinfamous 7 місяців тому +1

    I always find these convoys really awesome. I think it's because you get to see security done totally correctly and also witness the government functioning correctly and doing it's job as it should.

    • @Norp-i7m
      @Norp-i7m 4 місяці тому

      A rare event, indeed.

  • @wwelsh100
    @wwelsh100 Рік тому +5

    Sweet cabover!

  • @colorado841
    @colorado841 Рік тому +4

    0:46 I wonder what would happen if a cop tried to pull them over for tailgating...

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 Рік тому +1

      Honestly, that is a good question, so i am going to do my best to answer it, I parts of my answer might seem vague, because i dont want to cross over to stuff that may be classified.
      Most local police know better than to mess with this kind of weapons movement. But believe it or not, it has happened in the past, most of the time by rookie police officers.
      These movements have US federal Marshals with them, for that and other legal reasons. However with or without the federal Marshals, the movement is not required to stop.
      So in short, if they attempted to stop them, either the movement would not stop, or the Police officer would have a very bad day.
      My info comes from the fact that i personally was part of these movements for 5 years.
      I hope i answered your question as good as i could, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask, and as long as i dont feel it is classified or falls under "need to know" i will do my best to answer

    • @BooRadley452
      @BooRadley452 Рік тому

      ​@@floridaboz1
      It appears they are on red alert

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 Рік тому +1

      @@BooRadley452 Everything you see here is common practice for this kind of movement

    • @jewishpenguin_9228
      @jewishpenguin_9228 Рік тому +1

      ​@Dave Terry actually US marshals used to be used and are now replaced by AFOSI

    • @floridaboz1
      @floridaboz1 Рік тому

      @@jewishpenguin_9228 Thanks for that update. When i was in, the Marshals would always run with us. I wonder why they made that change

  • @wesleycordazzo4016
    @wesleycordazzo4016 Рік тому +5

    That container alone can blow up a entire city in seconds, mind blowing.

    • @ZacTexC
      @ZacTexC Рік тому +3

      It’s not assembled until it gets to its launching destination

  • @christopherreed4723
    @christopherreed4723 Рік тому +9

    Yup. I've known three people who were involved with nuclear weapons. One was a Pershing II crewman, and the other were Marines who (at different times) pulled SSBN security duty when the boomers were in port. Two things to realize about that convoy.
    One, don't even look like you're thinking of messing with it. The rules of engagement those soldiers are operating under are very broad.
    Two, as impressive as that escort is, there's also going to be a QRF to back them up if, God forbid, something does happen. And those guys will likely be even more heavily armed.