Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nuclear depth charge explodes near USS Agerholm (DD-826) on 11 May 1962.jpg

Full scale test of ASROC nuclear depth charge

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Original – Shot Dominic Swordfish spray dome and plume with USS Agerholm in foreground. This nuclear test was a full scale test of RUR-5 ASROC rocket launched depth charge, fired from the Agerholm in 1962.

Reason

The image is iconic.

The image depicts one of the few full-scale tests of a US nuclear weapon system (as opposed to the simple test of a device without delivery system), the other being the SLBM test, shot Dominic Frigate Bird in the same year.

The image conveys how a nuclear depth bomb might have been used in combat.

The image conveys the immense power of even a very small nuclear weapon.

Con: The image likely needs some restoration work. I am uncertain how appropriate it is to expect work needs to be performed while nominating said image.

Articles in which this image appears

USS Agerholm, RUR-5 ASROC, Operation Dominic

FP category for this image

Either Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/War or Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Engineering_and_technology/Weaponry.

Creator

Department of Defense, Defense Atomic Support Agency.

• Support as nominator – Kylesenior (talk) 09:20, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose unless restored - lots of dust and scratches, also quite soft in full size. --Janke | Talk 10:20, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose – Ditto. Fuzzy at full res. – Sca (talk) 12:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
• Comment – It needs quite a bit of restoration, I do it once there is consensus to pass the nom. Bammesk (talk) 00:09, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
• Comment EV is very good, and this would be worth restoring if possible Nick-D (talk) 10:12, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:59, 14 November 2021 (UTC)