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Disney bomb was a British rocket-powered "bunker buster" bomb of the Second World War. Designed by the Royal Navy, it was only used operationally on a few occasions by the United States Army Air Force.
Design and development
[edit]The bomb was designed at the Admiralty DMWD by Captain Edward Terrell.
The body of the bomb was a cylinder with a "sharply pointed nose" forged from steel and then hardened. Actual explosive content was 500 lb (230 kg) Shellite fused with two base-mounted British No. 58 Pistols. The tail of bomb was bolted to the casing. The tail assembly was made up of a bundle of 19 3-inch rockets with six fins for stability. The tail unit weighed 900 lb of the total 4,500 lb bomb weight.[1] the complete bomb was about 4 m long with an overall diameter 0.43 m.
The bomb was intended to be dropped from 20,000 ft (6,100 m). The rocket motors would then ignite at 5,000 ft (1,500 m) accelerating the weapon to a much higher velocity (around 730 m/s.)
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ USSTAF Armament Memorandum No. 3-133, 28 January 1945, p. 1-2.
- Bibliography
- Burakowski T., Sala A. (1960) Rakiety i pociski kierowane
External links
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