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The bomb was attached to an 800 kilogram parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about away from ground zero.
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There was not enough room to make the usual vertical bomb run.
The bomb was a solitary one.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.
Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.
-- The president of the Kansas City local of the International Association of Fire Fighters was severly injured today when a bomb tore his car apart as he left home for work.
It was first believed the bomb was rigged to the car's starter.
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
The reading, which has been watched with interest since Russia's detonation of a super bomb Monday, was 4 on Tuesday and 7 last Saturday, a level far below the danger point, according to the board of health.
You know that I could hold right here in my hand the little chunk of uranium metal that was the heart of the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima.
For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.
The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.
The calls also indicated that one of the men had tied a box around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside ; it is not known which hijacker this was.
The calls also indicated that one of the men had tied a box around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside-it is not known which hijacker this was.
Some passengers expressed doubt that the bomb was real.
During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.
Gromley said he was told the details of the bomb plot by Louis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service.
The motorcade was re-routed and the US agents later discovered a bomb planted under the bridge.
The first use of an air-dropped bomb was carried out by the Italians, initially by Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, in their 1911 war for Libya.
However, the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II ; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection.
Although completed in 1938, it was hit by a bomb in 1940 and remained semi-derelict for 22 years, before reopening in 1962.
bomb and attached
A makeshift incendiary bomb consisting of a bottle of flammable liquid ( usually gasoline ) with a flaming rag attached is known as a " Molotov cocktail ".
IRA member Thomas McMahon had slipped onto the unguarded boat that night and attached a radio-controlled fifty-pound ( 23 kg ) bomb.
After officer training, Gable headed a six-man motion picture unit attached to a B-17 bomb group in England to film aerial gunners in combat, flying five missions himself.
A hydrogen balloon with a load varying from a incendiary to one antipersonnel bomb and four incendiary devices attached, they were designed as a cheap weapon intended to make use of the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean and wreak havoc on Canadian and American cities, forests, and farmland.
In 1919 United States Marine Corps pilot Lt. L. H. Sanderson mounted a carbine barrel in front of the windshield of his Curtiss JN-4 ( a training aircraft ) as an improvised bomb sight, loaded a bomb in a canvas bag attached to the plane's underside, and made a solo attack in support of US Marines trapped by Haitians during the United States occupation of Haiti.
The bomb aimer dropped the bomb from high altitude while the aircraft was still approaching the ship, and guided it into an impact with the target by sending commands to spoilers attached to the rear of the bomb.
In 2011 a schoolgirl in Sydney, Australia had a suspected collar bomb attached to her by an attacker in her home.
Tonel attached the smaller, 10 kilo bomb to the propeller shaft.
In " Maelstrom's Revenge ", he escapes from prison by using a bomb attached to his watch as a diversion so he could escape through the back door.
Most laser-guided bombs are produced in the form of strap-on kits: seeker heads, and steering fins that can be attached to a standard general-purpose bomb or penetration bomb.
The bomb has no cartridge case ; the propellant is attached to the bomb's fins.
In 1981, Reid's wife found a bomb attached to the family station wagon ; Reid suspected it was placed by Gordon.
The film's leading man Robert De Niro survives a bomb explosion, where the explosive had been attached to his 1981 Eldorado's undercarriage, on the driver's side, with that steel plate effectively shielding his driver seat from the blast beneath ; the steel plate is credited with saving his life.
In June 1981 Gardiner survived a failed assassination attempt when a bomb containing 3 pounds of explosive was attached to his car by the IRA during a visit to Belfast.
In addition, there were another three dozen smaller frigates, sloops, bomb vessels, gun-brigs and schooners ( e. g. HMS Rook attached to the British fleet ), and a very large number of merchant or requisitioned ships carrying troops or supplies.
With this knowledge, Lee points to Griffin as the real Juntao, and Griffin, seeing that his cover is blown, threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung if the delivery is interrupted.
The bomb was attached to a donkey which was led to the checkpoint in front of the former governor's home and detonated by remote control.
To compensate for this stubbiness, and quickly stabilise the bomb after release, Red Beard was equipped with flip-out fins that were activated pneumatically, triggered by a lanyard attached to the aircraft.
Nine months after the downing of Iran Air Flight 655, on March 10, 1989, Rogers ' wife Sharon escaped with her life when a pipe bomb attached to her minivan exploded, while she was driving.
During the early years of the Cold War, the United States Air Force experimented with a variety of parasite fighters to protect its Convair B-36 bombers, including the dedicated XF-85 Goblin, and methods of either carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderjet in the bomber's bomb bay ( the FICON project ), or attached to the bomber's wingtips ( Project Tom-Tom ).
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* 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
A typical bomb has a mass of 900 kg and a speed of impact of 800 km / h ( 220 m / s ).
| bombs = 4, 000 kg ( 8, 800 lb ) of payload on five external hardpoints, including a variety of bombs, reconnaissance pods or Drop tanks ; French Air Force IIIEs through 1991, equipped for AN-52 nuclear bomb.
The optimal Orion drive bomblet yield ( for the human crewed 4, 000 ton reference design ) was calculated to be in the region of 0. 15 KT, with approx 800 bombs needed to orbit and a bomb rate of approx 1 per second.
This bomb had its predicted yield of 800 kilotons, and it was supposedly immune to exposure from another bomb despite its not using boosting.
| bombs = 1 × 800 kg ( 1, 760 lb ) type 91 torpedo or 1x 800kg ( 1, 760lb ) bomb or 2 × 250 kg ( 550 lb ) bombs or 6 × 60 kg ( 293 lb ) bombs
It failed to solve the " bomb calamity ", Richthofen noted on 14 June and three days later he could only drop 800 of the planned 1, 000 tons.
bomb and 30 mm ADEN cannon fire from two BAe Sea Harrier FRS. Mk. 1s of 800 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Hermes.
* June 17 – German aircraft bomb the British ocean liner RMS Lancastria in Quiberon Bay after she has taken aboard 5, 800 Allied troops for evacuation from France to the United Kingdom.
* June 16-As part of an attempted coup against President Juan Perón, Argentine Naval Aviation and Argentine Air Force aircraft bomb and strafe the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires and the adjacent Plaza de Mayo while a large crowd is gathered there to express support for Perón, killing 364 people and injuring over 800.
| bombs = 1 × 858 kg ( 1, 892 lb ) Type 91 Kai-3 ( improved model 3 ) aerial torpedo or 1 × 800 kg ( 1, 764 lb ) bomb or 4 × 250 kg ( 551 lb ) bombs
| max speed main = 412 km / h at 2, 800 m with 1, 995 kg bomb load
Unfortunately, the missile's 3, 800 lb ( 1720 kg ) weight proved to be too heavy for the Gannet, and would have required modifications to the Gannet's bomb bay to expose the missiles ' seeker heads to the target before launch.
There are also hovercrafts ( floating pads that allow Cosmo to fly ) and hint globes ( which cause a message to be displayed if Cosmo runs into one ; destroying one with a bomb earns 12, 800 points ).
The BLU-82B / C-130 weapon system, known under program " Commando Vault " and nicknamed " daisy cutter " in Vietnam and in Afghanistan for its ability to flatten a forest into a helicopter landing zone, is a 15, 000 pound ( 6, 800 kg ) conventional bomb, delivered from either a C-130 or an MC-130 transport aircraft.
The titanium tetrachloride is reduced with sodium ( Na ) to form pure metallic titanium ( 99. 9 %) by heating TiCl < sub > 4 </ sub > with Na in a steel bomb at 700 – 800 ° C.
The submarines were also able to carry three Sei ran aircraft ( the Aichi M6A ), each carrying a 1, 760 lb ( 800 kg ) bomb 650 mi ( 1, 050 km ) at 360 mph ( 580 km / h ).
* President Reagan gave the go-ahead for U. S. production of the neutron bomb, with warheads for 380 Lance missiles and 800 on 150-mm howitzers for U. S. troops in Europe.
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