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merc4ulfate

01-15-12 02:27 PM

I saw a photo of the bomb partially out of the water ... the drop in the river that day made it easy to see ... it looked like one of the old dma busting bombs the English used during WW2

http://bdnpull.bangorpublishing.netd...01-600x399.jpg

Oberon

01-15-12 02:44 PM

It was a Blockbuster bomb.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._ww2_bombs.jpg

The 4000lb variety to be precise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_bomb

No wonder they evacuated so many people, those things are meant to take out city blocks, hence the name. :dead:

Oberon

01-15-12 02:47 PM

Just discovered this on wiki whilst looking at the Grand Slam:

Quote:

A live Grand Slam bomb was accidentally displayed as a gate guardian at RAF Scampton for over a decade before the mistake was realised. It was gingerly removed (by crane and low-loader) to the test range at Shoeburyness, where it was detonated.

:har::har::har:

danasan

01-15-12 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1821869)

Just discovered this on wiki whilst looking at the Grand Slam:

:har::har::har:

Thanks God it was only a Grand Slam... :dead:

Not too much damage one would cause...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nd_Slammed.jpg

Jimbuna

01-15-12 03:59 PM

LOL :DL

Catfish

01-15-12 05:51 PM

Or maybe it's just an old boiler ? :hmmm:

Anyone read "The english patient" ?
Lot of defusing bombs in there explained well, and several tricks installed to kill defusers as well. Some had timeshift fuses, so after the bombers were away for hours, and the first people began to look and search the rubble for survivors, it would kill them the with a delay. Or two kinds of fuses, one obvious to remove, the other then beginning to start when the fake one was removed. Some real ingenuity when it comes to killing people, especially civilians.
This "Luftmine" or block buster is especially vicious, since it destroyed the lungs of people not being in shelters, for more than a kilometer (radius).
No wonder so much people have to be evacuated in a densely populated area.
Imagine hundreds of those dropped over one city ..

Rilder

01-15-12 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1797931)

That's a whole lot of boom. I'll never understand how guys on bomb disposal teams, or police bomb squads for that matter, think. My first instinct is to get as far away from explosives as possible. Thank goodness we've got people like them around. :up:

Of course, these days, it probably helps to have all kinds of fancy robots and such to send in instead of actual people. :O:

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