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Demolition Trucks)
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| Suicide Attack Unit
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| Allied Forces and USSR
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During near the end of the Great World War Two both the Allied and Soviet began development of the Demolition Truck. It was a small, computer driven truck, with a nuclear weapon, and it was lightly armored. The goal was to drive the truck to a target, at which point the bomb would explode. The weapon was similar to the nuclear detonation produced by the Missile Silo
The truck's unstable nature caused it to explode if a commander attempted to use the Chronosphere to transport it. The Iron Curtain effect only lasted a split second on the nuclear weapon, presumably because of interactions between the incredible energy of a nuclear bomb and the similarly incredible energies of the iron curtain.
The nuclear warhead was always armed and if the truck was hit by an airstrike, or otherwise destroyed, the bomb would explode. Many foolish commanders lost their bases when they failed to move the truck out of their bases in time; nuclear weapons caught in enemy attacks were quickly exploded.
These were used to take out large numbers of enemy forces together, particularly infantry. Nuclear weapons of only 1-kiloton yield (which were in use at this point), did little against well armored vehicles and structures. Following the GWII, the Demolition truck was phased out as a front-line unit by the Allies due to environmental concerns. However, the tactic of self-destructing trucks armed with conventional demolitions continues today.
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