Ordnance ID

[FUNKED1]

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/desertblast.wmv

What the hell was that thing?

[Siaf__csf]

JDAM

[Dinger]

yup, 2000lb JDAM.  Funny how few movies there are of stuff blowing up on the web; I think I've seen them all about 5 times.

[moose]

thats just a mk84 dummy strapped with guide fins, right?

[Suave]

We could've used one of those when we were digging pits to burn unreliable rifle ammo. We got tired of digging so we dug a smaller hole in the bottom of the big hole and packed it with all the older, less stable c4 that we had, which must've been around 22 kilos, and set it off. Unfortunately it didn't blow any of the dirt out of the hole, it just filled the hole full of loose dirt. So we had to dig it out anyway, well I shouldn't say we, I didn't touch a shovel.

[Furball]

LOL look at that crater... then imagine what a 22,000lb Grand Slam would do...

Wallis next produced the 12,000-lb Tallboy, also known as the earthquake bomb. Tallboy was 21" long, with an overall diameter of 3'8", while the bomb body itself was 10'4" long and 3'2" in diameter. It weighed a total of 11,855 pounds, of which 5,200 pounds was Torpex D1 explosive. The weight of the case was thus a high proportion of the weight of the bomb. Dropped from 20,000 feet, a Tallboy made a 80ft deep crater, 100ft across. The bomb had a high terminal velocity, variously estimated at 3,600 and 3,700 feet a second [much faster than sound], and at these speeds it could go through 16ft of concrete. It was used for attacks on tunnels, V-1 Flying Bomb launch sites, and other high-priority targets. Its most important use was in the sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz at anchor in Norway, on 12 November 1944. Over 700 Tallboys were dropped during the War.

In 1945 Barnes Wallis developed the 22,000lb Grand Slam, which remains the largest conventional bomb ever used in action. The 10 ton (22,000 pound) "Grand Slam" was 26-feet, 6-inches long. Its hardened casing was cast in a single piece in a sand mold, using a concrete core. The "Grand Slam" could reportedly penetrate though 20+ ft of concrete. The first one was dropped on Germany on 14th March 1945. It hit the ground about 80 feet from the target, but it created a crater over 100 feet deep. This bomb was used with great effect against viaducts or railways leading to the Ruhr and also against several U-boat shelters. In one raid on 27 March 1945 against the U-Bootbunkerwerft "Valentin" submarine pens near Bremen, two Grand Slams penetrated 7 meters (23 feet) of reinforced concrete, bringing down the roof. In total, 41 Grand Slams were dropped during the war.

 

[wulfie]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/desertblast.wmv

What the hell was that thing?

"JDAM! Making Martyrs - 2000 lbs. at a time!"[/i]



Mike/wulfie

[LePaul]

Wow.

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