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Not enough bang for the buck. But we did have the SADM - the Special Atomic Demolition Munition. The SADM is inside the backpack below, so it’s fairly small.The military is paranoid about losing nuclear weapons, even more paranoid than if you come back from a patrol missing an M67 frag grenade. You loose either one, and there are a lot of forms to fill out. And NOBODY wants to fill out the dreaded “Form 2101, Weapon, Nuclear, Misplaced, Lost, or Accidentally Destroyed”.Mk 58 Atomic Backback SADM6KT Yield W-54 Warhead

In Firefly, what actually happened to Earth that was and how did people travel from the Sol System to the Verse?The only thing we know for certain about Earth-That-Was is told to us in exposition. When Firefly originally aired, Mal does a voice-over that I had now forgotten as it was removed from the Firefly boxed set.Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. She's a transport ship, Firefly class. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some reason, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, took his genius sister from some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is."—Malcolm ReynoldsSource: FireflyAs for travel: humanity clearly developed interstellar travel capability: Sol is not in the same system.Earth-That-Was (Latin: Terra) was the original home of all humans. A series of events led to the mass exodus of Earth's population. The Earth fleet left Earth founding a new civilization in a new star system. Many of the facts about "Earth-That-Was" have been lost to the pages of history.Source: Earth-That-WasBut as for the Verse, that has particular meaning.Discovered by scientists in 2020, 34Tauri (2020) is a star cluster, of the likes of the triple star system Alpha Centauri. It consists of five main sequence stars, around which orbit seven protostars, seven gas giants, three separate asteroid belts, seventy-five planets, and one hundred forty-nine moons.[1] Four of the main sequence stars orbit a central star.All the worlds that make up the 'Verse have two names, a Sino (Chinese) name and Anglo (English) name. Sometimes, only one is used officially. This is not the case with the five main sequence stars. The Sino names of the five stars are based on the old-world concept of the Five Chinese Constellations. The Anglo names are given by the actual temperature-spectral color of the sun, with the exception of two which are yellow, named Georgia and Kalidasa.Source: The VerseTravel to the Verse as through the Earth fleet.The Earth fleet was the fleet of generation ships that left Earth-That-Was in the years between 2097 and 2101, carrying over a quarter billion people, destined for the 34Tauri(2020) after Earth became uninhabitable due to depleted resources, overpopulation, and a compromised ecosystem.Source: Earth fleetThat’s how.

Thanks for the interesting question. I was born in Germany and grew up during the time of Brezhnev - Gorbachev - Yeltsin and Putin. So it turns out that in Russia not everyone knows the interesting facts about Soviet cars. From the time of Gorbachev, it was decided to blame everything Soviet and admire foreign. Cars were in the first place. At the same time, Soviet cars were sold to other countries and participated and were very successful in car races.Soviet equipment was assembled in view of the fact that anyone can repair it themselves by purchasing the necessary part. And reliability had to be guaranteed by a special state standard GOST. Cars in the USSR during the reign of Brezhnev were few. Firstly, the car was expensive, and secondly it was inexpedient to buy it - urban public transport and the underground in Russia are very stable.I note that after the collapse of the USSR in Russia there was not a single transport worker strike. Subway works very stable. As a rule, moving on the Moscow subway you can get to any even the most remote region of Moscow. Transport is not affected by hurricanes, rain, storms and snowfalls - transport always works. This is a significant difference from many countries. I remember how snow fell in the USA and it was not enough, but the transport got up everyone was afraid to go. And in France in general, one time went on a strike of transport workers and just a case helped to leave. At the moment, in Russia it is customary to scold russian transport and your roads, but just not everyone has seen what kind of transport in other countries and how it is served. The conditions of transport in Russia, many probably said as extreme.Wonderful Soviet Jews who created the legendary Katyusha car and rocket launcher, which helped the victory over the Nazis. Boris Slonimer and Leya Kizner participated in the creation of "Katyusha"More recently, the Russian Civil War ended. The Russian Empire was mainly a farming country. After the war, at an accelerated pace, the USSR began to raise its economy to become a modern industrial country. In 1929, the Soviet government bought from Ford Motor Company all the equipment and technologies for the licensed release of the Ford Model A called GAZ-A.GAZ-A.Many of the USSR after Lenin perceived as the time of the USSR Stalin. This is not entirely correct. Stalin became the leader of the USSR in 1941. Until 1941, he was engaged in the economy of the USSR and other people were the rulers. For example, until 1941 there was a leader Molotov.Soviet car Prombron C 24/45 1923 yearAMO-F-15 - the first truck of the USSR 1927Soviet cars were prototypes of foreign cars. It was the USSR’s first task to organize the production and train its personnel of designers and engineers. Was the slogan Cadres decide everything! We needed educated people. The USSR began a large training of its Soviet people. There were Academies, Institutes, Schools, Design offices. Previously, the Russian Empire 90% of workers and farmers could not read and write. In the USSR they were taught. It is worth noting that the revolution of 1917 made the Jews. In Russia, the Jews were outcasts and the revolution was able to give them equal rights. Many talented scientists in the USSR were Jews.It is important to know that the Soviet government considered the automobile industry to be very important. Produced a lot of trucks and cars. For the Red Army produced armored cars and special military vehicles.GAZ-62 model 1939 - Soviet two-axle all-wheel drive truckGAZ-M1 1936 Soviet most massive Soviet car of the mid-twentieth century. 62888 copies, created at the Molotov Gorky Automobile PlantGAZ-M1 1936The USSR at an accelerated pace mastered the production of its Soviet cars.But it was only at first and there was a specific approach - the USSR can do everything by itself. That is, the car was going to fully independently in the USSR and many components and parts were different from its foreign counterpart. It was believed that the Soviet best. Even if you do not see the cars it works. How important was the atomic bomb creation project for the USSR. There was practically the entire course of the creation of the US atomic bomb from Soviet intelligence agents - but Soviet scientists proposed their development and it was much more powerful and had a different principle. It was like a competition.ZIS-115 Soviet car of 1945The USSR constantly competed with the USA. What for? I do not understand. It was not worth anything to prove. For example, China is socialist and does not prove anything, but simply does its job and does it well. Speaking of the collapse of the USSR, the main reason is Gorbachev and not the economy. If you want the collapse of your country, then invite Gorbachev. A lot of my Jewish relatives left for the USA and Israel. It was a hard time. But back to the Soviet cars. How did they buy car it if it was expensive? In the USSR there were not a lot of banks - there was a state bank and everything else was state bank cash. If you worked, then you went to the cash desk (Sberegatelnaja Kassa) and there you were given money in installments for 15-20 years. You did not pay interest on the loan. Just bought yourself who wanted a country house or a boat. But it was possible to build a country house itself and the state gave the territory for free.That is, the main buyers were the Soviet people who have country houses to which it was difficult to reach by public transport. Also, cars were bought by lovers of fishing and hunting. In the city, a car was considered in the USSR as something unnecessary and one could do without it. For example, now the same but the car is the image and have it prestigious. That is, before the people were more practical and less looked at the prestige.Good were Soviet cars? Some are currently using Soviet cars. That is, the car has more than 30-40 years.Let's see how Soviet cars participated in international races. I was interested to see the facts ...1954. Under the leadership of the Soviet Jew Boris Shaposhnik (chief designer of the special design bureau “MAZ”), many different wheeled artillery tractors with an 8x8 wheel arrangement and a series of chassis for high-powered self-propelled launchers were created.Moskvich-408 at the 1968 London-Sydney Rally MarathonLondon-Sydney 1968 4th place in the team competition (Soviet crew)London-Mexico 1970. Before the start of the marathon at Wembley Stadium. Moskvich number 28 will come to the finish line almost in the same form, without breakdownsThe Moskvich teams were very strong, the cars were reliable, but the forces were not always equal. In the years of the participation of Moskvich in the rally there was no classification, which means he competed with 5 liter V8 or V6, which were more powerful, but this did not prevent the teams from fighting and even winning.London-Mexico City 1970 3rd place in the team competition (Soviet crew)Belgium Rally 1971 1 place in the overall standings, car Muscovite (Belgian crew)1971 rally "Tour-Europe" sports debut of the Soviet novelties VAZ-2101Tour of Europe 1971 3 place in the overall standings, 1 place in the team standings.In 1971, at the rally "Tour-Europe" took place the sports debut of the Soviet novelty - VAZ-2101. VAZ-2101 took 2nd place in the absolute, dropping forward Opel Kadett 1.9 Rally with a more powerful 120-horsepower engine. "Moskvich-412" in this rally came third and won the "Golden Cup" for the best result of the team of 4 crews.In the African rally "Western Safari - Argung" in 1973, "Muscovites" took 2, 3 and 5 places, securing first place in the team competition, moreover AZLK cars came to the finish line without breakdowns, while eminent manufacturers literally fell apart. And at the rally "Tour of Europe - 73", the Zhiguli cohort won gold and silver team cups.Soviet jeep VAZ-2121Soviet jeep VAZ-2121 from the 70s participated in the races Paris - Dakar. The races were difficult but the VAZ-2121 confidently occupied the finishing spots. And in 1982 in the Dakar took 2nd place! And the 1st place was taken by the Marre brothers on the 170-strong Renault 20 Turbo 4 × 4Not only passenger Soviet cars but also Soviet trucks participated in the races. For example MAZ and KAMAZ.MAZ SovtranAvto at the Nurburgring 1988.I apologize for not being able to do a big overview of Soviet cars. It will just be a lot of work. In the USSR, there were many different factories and car models. Many were successful. Specially showed the participation of Soviet cars in the race. But in the USSR, the car did not attach such importance as for example to a spacecraft and considered the successes of the USSR in space technology. During the USSR, when Gorbachev became the ruler, many factories were stopped. There was unemployment.Many Russians do not even know that in Soviet times, Soviet cars participated in international races and were successful. I hope the information was interesting to you and I found interesting facts.