Nuclear artillery?

[KilroyWasHere]

Would it be possible to add through a mod a new type of advanced cannon module called "nuke" and have the resulting shell use the tactical nuke explosion or have the explosion scale with shell size/number of modules?

[FourGreenFields]

Would be unrealistic afaIk, but could be modded in, I suppose.

[Laigon ♥]

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

Would be unrealistic afaIk, but could be modded in, I suppose.

I'm pretty sure nuclear artillery was a thing before we had proper missiles.

[Silamon]

Originally posted by RED:

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

Would be unrealistic afaIk, but could be modded in, I suppose.

I'm pretty sure nuclear artillery was a thing before we had proper missiles.

It was, the Iowa class battleships had some nuclear rounds, though they were never actually used.

[Laigon ♥]

Hope we get it added to missiles, just make sure they cost alot. Maybe have to build them inside a special silo or something :p

[Matt]

...or you can make kamekazi thruster drones.

[Laigon ♥]

I did download one but it's too good. Like it's got crazy damage.

[Alpha393]

Require several fragile components in a row for it to work? I'd much rather get it for advanced cannons or CRAMs than missiles, simply because missiles are already super annoying.

Something like this for a grossly over-simplified dirty bomb setup

Primer
fissile material (more for much bigger boom but considerably more radiation)

Depleted uranium pellets(optional, basically a better version of regular frag warhead. Generates a TON of rads.)

Fuel canister (optional, allows the firestorm to keep burning on metal, stone, lead, and heavy armor, and last much longer all around.)

[Justicar Nord]

They only had one nuke artillery gun, a 280mm(11")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5jo7aZzTw

tbh it would be a waste, imagine a lucky hit to one of your magazines and if you hit them you won't have that many resources to recover

[Silamon]

Originally posted by Justicar Nord:

They only had one nuke artillery gun, a 280mm(11")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5jo7aZzTw

tbh it would be a waste, imagine a lucky hit to one of your magazines and if you hit them you won't have that many resources to recover

actually there are quite a few more artillery pieces that can fire nuclear rounds.
Just a quick google search later:
M65 Atomic Cannon
M110 howitzer
M115 howitzer
M109 self-propelled gun
M114 towed howitzer
M198 towed howitzer
16 inch Mk7 (Iowa battleship guns)

All of those could fire nuclear ammunition, and that is just from the US.

Edit: Here are some russian arty pieces that can fire nuclear shells:
2S19 Msta-S
2S3 Acacia
2S5 Giatsint-S,
D-20
2A36 Giatsint-B,
2A65 Msta-B
S-23
2S7 Pion
2S4 Tulip

[Sithis]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Originally posted by Justicar Nord:

They only had one nuke artillery gun, a 280mm(11")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5jo7aZzTw

tbh it would be a waste, imagine a lucky hit to one of your magazines and if you hit them you won't have that many resources to recover

actually there are quite a few more artillery pieces that can fire nuclear rounds.
Just a quick google search later:
M65 Atomic Cannon
M110 howitzer
M115 howitzer
M109 self-propelled gun
M114 towed howitzer
M198 towed howitzer
16 inch Mk7 (Iowa battleship guns)

All of those could fire nuclear ammunition, and that is just from the US.

Edit: Here are some russian arty pieces that can fire nuclear shells:
2S19 Msta-S
2S3 Acacia
2S5 Giatsint-S,
D-20
2A36 Giatsint-B,
2A65 Msta-B
S-23
2S7 Pion
2S4 Tulip

I guess it also is worth pointing out that one of the arguably most well-known weapons like these was the M388 Davy Crockett, an almost man-portable launcher that can propell a ~15 ton yield bomb to about 10-12 hundred meters. The total weight of the weapon and its ammunition was a little over 100 lbs,which makes it technically man-portable, even though its technically fit for being operated by a two-person crew, or installed on an M113 chassis. The weapon was designed in the late 1950's, and if my memory serves me right, over a thousand of these were actually built. Due to multiple concerns related to safety and the very idea of using nuclear munitions on such a large scale, they never were actually deployed in battle.

Funny bits of trivia: Fallout 3's Fatman, despite its name, is actually based on this weapon, which one can tell even by some of its design elements. Also, Wasteland 2's Desert Rangers' base features a fully functional version of it in its museum. Pressing the big red button on it leads to some very expected, unfortunate results.

[Druckform | INSOMNIAC 3D]

Atomic Anny, Nuclear long tom, Davy crockett to name a few from the US.