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05-17-2005, 10:25 AM
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#31 | | Master of Ewes
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05-17-2005, 10:40 AM
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#32 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country:  | I think the question is rather is anyone bothering to research 
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05-17-2005, 11:25 AM
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#33 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Yeah I pretty much stopped, I could not find anything.
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05-25-2005, 01:13 AM
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#34 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I really find this hard to believe. Maybe it is one of those WW2 myths that crop up from time to time, like the stories about the Germans producing flying UFO type aircraft. I know there are some authentic plans for some, but there is no record of any successful tests. Can you imagine it? One day in the Kansas, America, "Frank get your gun, it's a UFO dropping troops wearing German Uniforms." Chuckle, Chuckle. Seriously though, the C-130 Hercules has never really done anything like this. A gunship is quite different from this, as a gunship is designed to be able to go along pounding at targets with cannons, and mortar fire. | |
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05-25-2005, 08:28 AM
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#35 | | "Shooter"
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Country:  | The C-130 has never done it??? Yes, it has. The daisy cutter was used quite a bit in Vietnam. It was loaded onto a pallet and then a chute was deployed to drag it out of the back via the ramp. It was also used in both gulf wars and afghanistan. Here is a link about the BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" that also include diagrams and pictures. http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ons/blu-82.htm
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05-25-2005, 09:05 AM
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| I have heard about this before, but never much and I can't remember any of the sources. | |
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05-25-2005, 05:48 PM
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#37 | | Member
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| And where would the Luftwaffe get a 17 ton bomb when they didn't have any other aircraft even remotely capable of carrying it? | |
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05-25-2005, 05:53 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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05-26-2005, 03:56 AM
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#39 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | That is pretty much what throws it out is the 17 ton bomb. I seriously doubt that it was possible however it is probably something that will never be confirmed.
And yes the C-130 has done it on a number of occasions but it is different for the C-130 in the fact that the C-130 has a rear ramp to drop it out of.
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05-26-2005, 07:04 AM
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#40 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Agreed, and the C-130 is also a post war airplane. Unless you count a Mistel, they didn't have any bombs that big in WWII. The heaviest the US made was during the Aphrodite Project. They packed 20,000 lbs of HE into a war weary B-17 and flew it by remote control. It did not work very well and a number of accidents cancelled the project.
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05-26-2005, 07:16 AM
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#41 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Yes I had heard about that one with the B-17.
As for the Mistel I dont really think that can count because it is not a true bomb.
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05-26-2005, 07:42 AM
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| Wasn't one of the Kennedys killed in an RB-17 (I think that was the designation, but I could be wrong)? As for bombs, the biggest one of all in WW2 was the Grand Slam at 22,000 pounds, designed by Barnes Wallis and dropped from a modified Lancaster. It was used on places like the Ems canal and Beilefelde viaduct; it was said to have disarranged them somewhat.
The largest German bomb (again from imperfect memory) was 2,000kg. | |
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05-26-2005, 08:28 AM
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#43 | | Senior Member
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Country: | One of the Kennedys was but I can't remember which one it was and the Grand Slam is the biggest bomb ever
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05-26-2005, 08:29 AM
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#44 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Joe Kennedy was killed in one of the B-24s they used for the Aphrodite project. For some reason, the word spread it was a B-17 and has persisted for years. I actually spoke to a photographer from that time at the museum a few years ago that had taken pictures of one of the Aphrodite airplanes that crashed near Oxford. The crater was huge and miraculously, no one was hurt.
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05-26-2005, 10:33 AM
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#45 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | Ive seen German Mistels of He-162 and Me-262. That would have been interesting.
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