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Offline whoru

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« on: December 06, 2003, 09:21:14 AM »
I'm still waiting for AH to come out with a really big  bomb... one so big when I drop it from 30k ft I can see the explosion. It wouldn't have to be like an Atomic bomb, just one large enough to blow up half of a small base. Of corse the only plane that would be able to carry it would be a plane like the C47... no guns... fly's very slow... easy to take out.

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2003, 09:38:58 AM »
Milkrunners can dream too, I suppose. :D

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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2003, 10:25:31 AM »
like this?




These massive bombs designed by Dr. Barnes Wallis reached the speed of sound during descent being streamlined and equipped with angled fins that produced a rapid spin. Penetrating the ground before exploding they worked by setting off shock waves that would bring down nearby structures. The 5,443 kg (12,000 lb) "Tall Boy" dropped from 6,096m (20,000 feet) made a 24 meter (80 feet) deep crater 30 meter (100 feet) across and could go through 4.88 meter 16 feet of concrete. On 8-9 June, 1944 eight Lancaster bombers of No. 617 Squadron used the deep penetration "Tall Boy" bomb in an attack against the Saumur Rail Tunnel. The new weapon proved its worth but at the cost of losing 5 of the 8 bombers on this mission. Eventually 854 Tallboy bombs were used, the most note-worthy mission resulting in the destruction of the battleship Tirpitz (77 were dropped in three attacks).
The "Tall Boy" bomb was the second biggest bomb used in WWII.




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The "Grand Slam" (Earthquake) bomb was of the same design as the Tallboy but larger and heavier weighing 9,979 kg (22,000 lb). The Grand Slam was first used on 14 March, 1945 when a force of Lancaster bombers led by Royal Air Force Squadron Leader C.C. Calder attacked the Bielefeld railway viaduct destroying two spans. In another attack against submarine pens (Bunker Valentin) near Bremen two Grand Slams pentrated 4,5 meters of reinforced concrete. 41 Grand Slam Bombs were dropped by the end of the war mainly against bridges and viaducts.
The "Grand Slam" is the biggest conventional bomb ever made.
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2003, 10:55:40 AM »
yep and if you notice guys british made too:)  and fifty years before the americans used a 20000lbs bomb in the middle east .


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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2003, 11:40:43 AM »
exactly.... a really hugh bomb

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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2003, 12:52:38 PM »
But you actually need to drop it from 30k, else you would blow up with it while flying over it :D


Some kind of special targets would be cool too, like dams (operation Chastice) You will need to load your lanc with a special bomb or something like it which is perked so you can destroy it.

Has a nice ring to it :)

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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2003, 12:54:06 PM »
Did we use MOAB in operations allready?  BTW America had a 40,000lbs bomb or so somtime in the 1950s..  I saw the thing at Aberdeen. HUGE!

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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2003, 01:23:07 PM »
Aberdeen Scotland Grun? I used to live there in highschool for a while.

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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2003, 02:56:40 PM »
actually even our current 4k bomb would make a bloody big explosion if they made the explosion thingy better (right now its just a blown up version of what you get when you shoot the ground with your mg)

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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2003, 05:14:46 PM »
The whole point of have'n a really big bomb, is getting it to the base. So to give the other side a chance it's only fair that the bomber has no guns to defend with.... or a guns in really bad spot

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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2003, 07:19:47 PM »
What we need is a doomsday device.



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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2003, 11:29:02 PM »
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Aberdeen Scotland Grun? I used to live there in highschool for a while.


Aberdeen Maryland. Place called Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) it's a big armor musem and US Army tank testing center, for some reason they had this massive bomb there.

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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2003, 11:29:52 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2003, 11:45:29 AM »
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The whole point of have'n a really big bomb, is getting it to the base. So to give the other side a chance it's only fair that the bomber has no guns to defend with.... or a guns in really bad spot



Makes you wonder how about winning a war.......

.....guns in a bad spot :lol

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« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2003, 02:20:20 PM »
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Makes you wonder how about winning a war.......

.....guns in a bad spot :lol


Ya guns in really bad spot... like... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... on the wheels (wheels would fall off after take-off to prevent a safe landing on return) :rofl