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    A nuclear depth bomb is the nuclear equivalent of a conventional depth charge, and can be used in anti-submarine warfare for attacking submerged submarines...
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    anti-submarine homing torpedoes. A depth charge fitted with a nuclear warhead is also known as a "nuclear depth bomb". These were designed to be dropped...
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    The B90 Nuclear Depth Strike Bomb (NDSB) was an American thermonuclear bomb designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-to-late 1980s and cancelled...
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    B57 nuclear bomb during the mid-1960s. The B-57 was a bomb that could be used by tactical aircraft against land targets, as well as a nuclear depth charge...
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    be used by the Royal Navy, both for surface attack, as well as a nuclear depth bomb, or NDB. When AGM-48 Skybolt was cancelled, part of the resulting...
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  • the invasion of the Falklands initially carried a total of thirty nuclear depth bombs as part of their standard armament. The Chief of the Defence Staff...
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    B57 nuclear bomb was a tactical nuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. Entering production in 1963 as the Mk 57, the bomb was...
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    A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...
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    The Mark 90 nuclear bomb, given the nickname "Betty", was a Cold War nuclear depth charge, developed by the United States in 1952. It had a length of 10 ft...
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  • carried by the UUM-44 SUBROC submarine-launched missile as a nuclear depth bomb. The last W55 warhead was dismantled in December 1996. Chuck Hansen (2007)...
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  • Mark 82 bomb (USA) Mark 83 bomb (USA) Mark 84 bomb (USA) Mark 90 Betty nuclear depth bomb Mark 101 NDB (nuclear depth bomb) Mark 105 Hotpoint bomb U.S. Navy...
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    nuclear torpedoes, nuclear depth bombs and nuclear naval mines.[citation needed] In response to INS Arihant, India's first nuclear submarine, the Pakistan...
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    under Project E in the form of aerial bombs, missiles, depth charges and artillery shells until 1992. Nuclear-capable American aircraft had been based...
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    UUM-44 SUBROC (category Cold War nuclear missiles of the United States)
    anti-submarine weapon. It carried a 25 kiloton tactical nuclear warhead configured as a nuclear depth bomb. SUBROC was one of several weapons recommended for...
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    payload ranges from a simple depth charge to a 200 kt nuclear depth bomb. The RPK-2 uses a 82R torpedo or 90R nuclear depth charge in the 533 mm version...
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  • several applications: Mark 101 Lulu nuclear depth bomb, the Mark 45 ASTOR torpedo and the Mark 105 Hotpoint nuclear bomb. The Mk 101 Lulu was manufactured...
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    fire an ASROC missile carrying an acoustic homing torpedo or a W44 nuclear depth bomb onto an unguided ballistic trajectory toward the target. At a pre-determined...
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    launch. The missile carried a nuclear depth bomb warhead of up to 10 kilotons in yield. The warhead could detonate at a depth of up to 200 m and had a lethal...
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    to possess a nuclear triad, being capable to deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea and air. American nuclear weapons of all types – bombs, warheads, shells...
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    Medium Atomic Demolition Munition and the novel Blue Peacock, nuclear depth bombs, and nuclear torpedoes. An 'Atomic Bazooka' was also fielded, designed to...
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    artillery shells, land mines, depth charges, and torpedoes which are equipped with nuclear warheads. Also in this category are nuclear armed ground-based or shipborne...
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    the basis of the 30.5 inches (775 mm) BOAR rocket, the Mark 90 Betty nuclear depth charge, MGR-1 Honest John rocket, MGM-5 Corporal ballistic missile,...
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    to permit different payload combinations to be used, including a nuclear depth bomb (NDB) option, and this, together with the different internal ship...
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  • use, low-yield nuclear weapons. Cobalt bomb Neutron transport Nuclear strategy Nuclear warfare Nuclear weapon design "Sci/Tech Neutron bomb: Why 'clean'...
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  • submarine-launched heavyweight torpedo; the Mk 101 Lulu nuclear depth bomb; the Mk 105 Hotpoint laydown bomb. Additionally, an anglicised W34 Python known to...
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    Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command, Walter...
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  • would have given such an order. Shock factor Underwater explosion Nuclear depth bomb Supercavitation List of supercavitating torpedoes List of torpedoes...
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    explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated...
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    always available, and at instant readiness. It allows the torpedo or nuclear depth bomb to enter the water practically on top of the submarine's position...
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    depth charges as well. Mark 8 nuclear bomb (1952–1957): earth penetrating W8 for SSM-N-8 Regulus (cancelled): earth penetrating Mark 11 nuclear bomb (1956–1960):...
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