Bang!

[andyBeaker]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-54533860

 

[Jaws]

Tallboy bombs were stored at Barnham Thetford along with our nuclear deterrents..
There is a mock up of a Tallboy at the entrance to the site ( now called Gorse industrial estate ).. bought many years ago and has been an industrial estate for as long as I have lived here

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1402411

Picture of the Tallboy mock up and some history
https://www.thetfordandbrandontimes.co.uk/news/barnham-tour-nuclear-weapons-unit-cold-war-1-6287131

 

[andyBeaker]

Tallboy bombs were stored at Barnham Thetford along with our nuclear deterrents..
There is a mock up of a Tallboy at the entrance to the site ( now called Gorse industrial estate ).. bought many years ago and has been an industrial estate for as long as I have lived here

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1402411

Picture of the Tallboy mock up and some history
https://www.thetfordandbrandontimes.co.uk/news/barnham-tour-nuclear-weapons-unit-cold-war-1-6287131

Can't help wondering what damage there would have been if it had been a bit nearer the wall of the canal!

 

[DEG5Y]

Don't understand why they tried to defuse it why not just set it off as happened

 

[lumpy]

Can't help wondering what damage there would have been if it had been a bit nearer the wall of the canal!

not to much of an issue as the blast goes up instead of out as it take the path of least resistance. There bombs were designed to penetrate and then explode thus causing the shock wave to transmit better. The wash of water would have caused a bit of damage but it would have been minimal.

 

[andyBeaker]

not to much of an issue as the blast goes up instead of out as it take the path of least resistance. There bombs were designed to penetrate and then explode thus causing the shock wave to transmit better. The wash of water would have caused a bit of damage but it would have been minimal.

Blimey, where you come from?!!

 

[andyBeaker]

not to much of an issue as the blast goes up instead of out as it take the path of least resistance. There bombs were designed to penetrate and then explode thus causing the shock wave to transmit better. The wash of water would have caused a bit of damage but it would have been minimal.

I was more thinking about the effect of the 'dams' bombs that were effective as they were designed to detonate right next to their target.

 

[sr71caspar]

I was more thinking about the effect of the 'dams' bombs that were effective as they were designed to detonate right next to their target.

The 'bouncing bomb' is completely different to the 'tall boy's'. The tall boys were designed to penetrate deeply into the ground, then explode forming a cavern under ground into which the above ground structure would collapse into.

 

[andyBeaker]

The 'bouncing bomb' is completely different to the 'tall boy's'. The tall boys were designed to penetrate deeply into the ground, then explode forming a cavern under ground into which the above ground structure would collapse into.

Yes.

 

[eddyace595]

It was Tallboys that were used against the Tirpitz...
God alone knows what it was like being on the receiving end..I have jumped
out of my skin before now at firework displays!!!!