A blockbuster bomb or cookie was one of several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term blockbuster...
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neckbreaker or blockbuster, a wrestling move Blockbuster bomb, large aerial bomb "Operation Blockbuster", Netherlands, World War II Blockbuster (book), by...
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appear in the American press in the early 1940s, referring to the blockbuster bombs, aerial munitions capable of destroying a whole block of buildings...
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manufacture their own bombs, most of which are either licensed versions of the U.S. Mark 80 series or close copies. Unguided bomb Blockbuster bomb – chosen for...
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Blockbuster (formerly called Blockbuster Video) is an American multimedia brand. The business was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a single home video...
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Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe. Bomb...
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of barrel bombs, and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering". Blockbuster bomb Car bomb Hell cannon...
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large Allied, particularly British, Second World War aircraft bombs (blockbuster bombs) had very thin skins to maximize the weight of explosive that a...
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Unexploded ordnance (redirect from Unexploded bomb)
World War Two bombs". BBC News. 7 May 2017. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017. "WW2 'blockbuster' bomb to force evacuation...
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aluminium powder, used in several types of ordnance such as air-dropped bombs. The aluminium increases the total heat output and hence impulse of the...
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000 lb (1,800 kg) Blockbuster bomb (nicknamed a Cookie). The conversion, including modified bomb bay suspension arrangements, bulged bomb bay doors and fairings...
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Christmas edition of the show. The song was named after the Allied blockbuster bomb. In 2010 Priest said: "It's amazing how everyone still talks about...
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typically not meaningful to the recipient program Cookie (bomb), a type of military blockbuster bomb Cookie, a non-directional line marker used in cave diving...
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Firebombing (redirect from Fire-bomb)
explosive bombs, such as the British blockbuster bombs, which blew out windows and roofs and exposed the interior of buildings to the incendiary bombs, is much...
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[citation needed] The effects of the massive raids using a combination of blockbuster bombs (to blow off roofs) and incendiaries (to start fires in the exposed...
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Biggest Bomb Ever?". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 10, 2019. Hall, Sheldon; Neale, Stephen (2010). Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood...
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aircraft. An AN/APS-13 was used as a radar altimeter during the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the 509th Composite Group, USAAF. List of...
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List of aircraft weapons (section Air-dropped bombs)
laydown bomb. Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (USA) Matra Durandal (France) Flechette (WWI) Ranken dart (World War I British) Blockbuster bomb (World War...
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warhead was a shaped charge weighing nearly two tonnes (the weight of a blockbuster bomb) fitted with a copper or aluminium liner. The use of a shaped charge...
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Operation Chastise (section Bomb damage assessment)
RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing...
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Fire balloons "Bouncing bombs" Upkeep Highball Gas bombs Smoke bombs Tallboy bomb Grand Slam bomb Blockbuster bombs Disney bomb .303 British for standard...
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T-12 Cloudmaker (redirect from T-12 bomb)
Pound Bomb", Defense Industry Daily. Article on the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), has history of earlier systems. "The Extra-Super Blockbuster" Archived...
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the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Cooper bombs - "20lb" bomb used in First World War Blockbuster bomb - "High Capacity" bombs carried by the Avro Lancaster, de...
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Mamta Kulkarni. The movie was a blockbuster. At the time of 1993 Bombay bombings, Plaza cinema, Mumbai was also bombed where the movie was being shown...
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Barnes Wallis (section Bombs)
deep-penetration earthquake bombs. These were not the same as the 5-tonne "blockbuster" bomb, which was a conventional blast bomb. Although there was still...
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an Allied attack on Berlin began. An Allied plane dropped a huge blockbuster bomb on the bunker, causing a cave-in that Captain America barely escaped...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service put the film as the worst of his "summer blockbuster bombs" list, giving it a rating of four stars for "traumatic" on his scale...
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List of air operations during the Battle of Europe (category World War II strategic bombing)
600 kg) High Capacity bomb (Blockbuster bomb) was against Karlsruhe.: 1441 9 October: First Eighth Air Force B-24 Bombing raid, bombed Industrial Plants...
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Hays Office). Bugs Bunny is seen reclining on a piece of ordnance (a blockbuster bomb) idly reading Victory Thru Hare Power (a spoof of the 1942 book). He...
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