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01-18-2008, 09:40 PM
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| Grand-Slam bomb Sunny
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01-18-2008, 09:49 PM
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| Great one, Sunny.
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01-18-2008, 10:01 PM
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| That's a big-ass bomb  Good vid Sunny. TO
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01-20-2008, 05:06 PM
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| Great video! Saw this bom at Hendon, big one. It was made to slam far into the groud, causing a kin of small earthquake and let the buildings fall.
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01-21-2008, 08:14 AM
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| Great vid sunny
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01-21-2008, 12:44 PM
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| Well done! Wasn't the Lanc a great crate?! You'd need a Buff or Herk to tote one of those today. Maybe could have been useful to winkle those ragheads out of their caves? |
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01-21-2008, 12:49 PM
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| A thought... was the Grand Slam the fastest aerial thing of WW2? It would have been supersonic in its terminal dive methinks. |
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01-21-2008, 02:16 PM
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01-21-2008, 02:27 PM
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01-21-2008, 05:19 PM
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| Stats on GS from WP: Weight 9.98 t (22,000 lb) Length 7.70 m (26 ft 6 in) C130 has Length: 97 ft 9in no mention of cabin size tho. Probably could fit one or two in I suppose. Compare to ALCM which is 20 ft. 8 in. (6.3 m) so maybe could rack a few GS in or under the B52 or B2! The bomb was also built in the US where it was designated as "Bomb, GP, 22,000-lb, M110 (T-14)". The US developed a larger bomb using the same principles as the Grand Slam, the T-12 Cloudmaker, which weighed 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) , but it was not employed operationally. The MOAB is an Air Force Research Laboratory technology project that began in fiscal year 2002, as a descendant of the BLU-82 "Daisy cutter". Weight 21,000 lb (9.5 tonnes) Length 30 ft (9.17 m) Diameter 40.5 in (102.9 cm) The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, nicknamed "Commando Vault" in Vietnam and "daisy cutter" in Afghanistan, is a 15,000 pound (6800kg) conventional bomb, delivered from an MC-130 transport aircraft. |
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01-21-2008, 05:21 PM
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01-21-2008, 07:43 PM
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