Got to see a nuclear convoy for the first time

How do you know it’s a nuclear convoy?

Im surprised you’re allowed to just drive past them honestly. Front and back are covered out the area but the side is just the truck alone.

You should have honked and waved!

I like how the chopper enters the view right at the end. I suspect it isn’t the only one in the air.

Fuckin wild! My grandpa packed worked at Hanford and packed uranium for the bombs we dropped on Japan. He was recruited by the US government to work at a “shoe factory” while working at a grocery store in Mew Mexico. Craaaaazy crazy stuff.

Thats cool as shit. Nothing else to add. I dont think they really worry about side attacks because the best you could do is stop the lead vehicle and then be immediately liquidated by all the support. The load itself i assume is completely fine even if it flips over.

The drivers for those fuel loads are practically locked into their trucks. If they want a snack, etc, they aren’t allowed to stop, and one of the escort vehicles will pass the convoy, hit the exit, grab the snacks, rejoin the convoy, and pass off the goods.

Hell yeah, nice sighting. Thanks for recording and posting it. I lived in Cookeville, TN for several years which is right on I-40 between Nashville and Knoxville. Obviously Oak Ridge is very nearby. I would see something like this with relative frequency on that road. Probably just materials rather than warheads, but always a row of black SUV’s in front and back and a semi.

It is always strange, badass, and unnerving at the same time to see the feds doing secret fed shit out in the wild.

Honestly, you’ve probably passed dozens of them before and simply didn’t realize it… Most of the time they transport the warheads completely separate in normal looking box trailers… And they typically don’t have police and military bearcat escorts the entire trip. They will however have escorts, but the escorts will be regular looking heavy duty pickups/vans that are armored to the teeth on the interior.

They also run decoy trucks with escorts as well that each take multiple different paths to the same location.

This is actually super interesting! Thank you for sharing kind stranger

The chopper in the end is awesome

Looks like a set up for a GTA heisst

I was tasked a few times with bringing torpedoes (non-nukes) to a landing zone to replenish a Navy ship. In my Explosives Driving Course in the USMC, we were told we ‘do not stop’ between the ammunition depot and the landing zone.

If a cop tries to pull you over when you are driving off base loaded with explosives, keep driving; the MPs will take care of the civilian police when you get back to base… only about 15 minutes on civilian roads.

I saw a documentary on The Discovery Channel about these decades ago. To be the truck driver, you not only have to have a perfect driving record, but if you get one citation you’re automatically fired is what I recall one guy saying.

A couple decades of watching action movies tells me those armored vehicles are not going to be enough to stop the badass villain and his elite squad of retired commandos.