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Offline Furball

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« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2003, 10:27:34 AM »
they were effective until the British started to bend the radio beams and make the german bombers attack sweet F* all :)
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« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2003, 11:07:44 AM »
the very large bombs, dropped in formation..would be GREAT way of wiping town/nearby gv's in 1 pass--remember even before the new buff model....a 4k laser-guided egg couldnt kill a 100% town
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« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2003, 09:59:01 PM »
Bring in the 50,000 lbs "Parking Lot Maker" bombs :) (NOTE: This was a poor attempt at a joke)
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« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2003, 09:39:23 AM »
I'd go with the Daisy Cutter or the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Bust) which weights about 10000 tons :eek:
heaviest bomb in the world --> Massdestruction weapon!
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« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2003, 09:42:06 AM »
I understood the moab is 21,000lbs which in case i am right it is not he biggest bomb ever produced because the grand slam is bigger.
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« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2003, 09:44:49 AM »
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I understood the moab is 21,000lbs which in case i am right it is not he biggest bomb ever produced because the grand slam is bigger.


it isnt?? what am I getting served from the media about Iraq then?

never thrust a journalist...
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« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2003, 10:57:47 AM »
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it isnt?? what am I getting served from the media about Iraq then?

never thrust a journalist...


aload of crap, as usual.


UNLESS! It is 21k's worth of explosive
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2003, 11:20:20 AM »
I think the Grand Slam was approx 22.000 Lbs, but I'll look it up and post it as soon as I can.
It made a huge crater at times, up to 60 feet in diameter and dozens of feet in depth. It would knock down buildings from their foundations from "earthquake" effects rather than blast, using the bombs deep penetration to serve as a pressure holder for the explosion, - a bit like a combustin really.
In AH, the Grand slam and the Tallboy could both be of use if the damage model for structures was to be revised, i.e. Hardened against blast or not. As it is now, it's a bit senseless, for everything counts, - you can even strafe down a Shore battery if you have enough bullets.
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« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2003, 12:03:23 PM »
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You can even strafe down a shore battery if you have enough bullets.


hmm, never tried that, how many runs do you need to do so? 10?
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« Reply #39 on: March 26, 2003, 01:26:50 PM »
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Once an American crew bombed England!!!

He (the navigator) said the map had the wrong types of grids, lol!


Sounds like Yossarian up to his shenanigans, booking for that section 8 :mad:
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« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2003, 02:26:04 PM »
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I remember seeing a film clip on one of the History Channel presentations showing an early-war bombsight that was an L-shaped bracket with two sliders -- the slider on the vertical arm was moved up to mark your plane's altitude, the slider on the horizontal arm was moved forward to mark your plane's speed; each slider had a pedestal to a sight ball; the bombardier adjusted his position so that he was looking down the sight line defined by the two sight balls (try doing that while the plane is bouncing around), and the spot on the ground marked by the sight was where the bombs were expected to hit.


This was the bombsight Doolittle's raiders used in April '42 instead of the Norden. Didn't want the Norden captured if the planes were captured (Good idea in retrospect). The bombings overall were like a bee sting but at least they hit what they were aiming for. Shows american ingenuity at its finest :)
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