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Superbombs: Tsar Bomba, Nuclear Bunker Buster, Gbu-43-B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, Bouncing Bomb, Castle Bravo, Grand Slam

Superbombs: Tsar Bomba, Nuclear Bunker Buster, Gbu-43-B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, Bouncing Bomb, Castle Bravo, Grand Slam


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Tsar Bomba, Nuclear bunker buster, GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, Bouncing bomb, Castle Bravo, Grand Slam, Father of All Bombs, Ivy Mike, Divine Strake, Doomsday device, Massive Ordnance Penetrator, BLU-82, Mark 17 nuclear bomb, T-12 Cloudmaker, Ivy King, Perseus. Excerpt: A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed specifically to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner, in order to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be pre-determined. The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes Wallis, whose "Upkeep" bouncing bomb was used in the RAF's Operation Chastise of May 1943 to bounce into German dams and explode underwater, with similar effect to the underground detonation of the earthquake bombs Grand Slam and Tallboy, both of which he also invented. Barnes Wallis Remains of a Highball test prototype recovered from Reculver in 1997, now at Herne Bay MuseumBarnes Wallis's April 1942 paper "Spherical Bomb - Surface Torpedo" described a method of attack in which a weapon would be bounced across water until it struck its target, then sinking to explode underwater, much like a depth charge. Bouncing it across the surface would allow it to be aimed directly at its target, while avoiding underwater defences, as well as some above the surface, and such a weapon would take advantage of the "bubble pulse" effect typical of underwater explosions, greatly increasing its effectiveness: Wallis's paper identified suitable targets as hydro-electric dams "and floating vessels moored in calm waters such as the Norwegian fjords." Both types of target were already of great interest to the British military when Wallis wrote his paper, which itself was not his first on the subject: German hydro-electric d...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155645735
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155645731
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Tsar Bomba, Nuclear Bunker Buster, Gbu-43-B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, Bouncing Bomb, Castle Bravo, Grand Slam
  • Width: 189 mm


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