I first heard of this as part of the backstory to Metal Gear Solid 3, and was sure Hideo Kojima had made it up. The idea of soldiers carrying nuclear weapons into battle seemed too ridiculous to be real.
Whoa! A flying Segway, 30 years before the Segway!
No way! I was so sure those were a Kojima-ism
I am excited to learn the real-life basis for those incubator "things" in Death Stranding.
I thought the same thing about the Fulton recovery system. Really feels like the cold war era was this era of advanced technology infancy, where we were going wild about all the possibilities. So much half baked mad Science and engineering that made it really far into development.
I remember reading a post from someone who was trying to track down one of the backpacks that had been designed to carry the Davy Crockett bomb.