• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Let me introduce you to the Disney Bomb… circa 1943:

    [it] was fitted with solid-fuel rockets to accelerate its descent, giving it an impact speed of 990 mph (1,590 km/h)—substantially beyond the 750 mph (1,210 km/h) free-fall impact velocity of the 5-tonne Tallboy “earthquake” bomb for comparable purposes.

    The Disney could penetrate 16 ft (4.9 m) of solid concrete before detonating.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      One of the test bombs punched through both the ceiling and the floor of a submarine pen, and ended up in the foundations somewhere.

      Also, it was named after that Disney.