Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

Lovely. I'll take twenty, please.

 

[Dosing]

Anyone seen a "special short carbine'?

 

[The True North]

 

[HuskyDude]

Avro Lancaster bomb load, five rows of 1000 lb bombs, four per row.The Lancaster could carry a typical bomb load of around 14,000lbs weight in its cavernous bomb bay, for over 1,600 miles at 200mph. It could also be modified to carry the 22,000 “Grand Slam”.

 

[HuskyDude]

Ramp at the V1 launch site in Ardouval/Val Ygot, Normandy, France​

 

[R005t3r]

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Anyone seen a "special short carbine'?

No, but you could make one.
Please record the fireball upon firing at dusk

 

[enen]

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Avro Lancaster bomb load, five rows of 1000 lb bombs, four per row.The Lancaster could carry a typical bomb load of around 14,000lbs weight in its cavernous bomb bay, for over 1,600 miles at 200mph. It could also be modified to carry the 22,000 “Grand Slam”.

i think it was also tasked with dropping atomic bombs but B29 was modified and did the task

 

[fat tony]

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Anyone seen a "special short carbine'?

Bubba's wishful thinking?

 

[*lawrence]

 

[tiho74]

No, but you could make one.
Please record the fireball upon firing at dusk

ROFLMAO... well IDK of mine is special short model but it is a carbine and it does have quite the F off welders flash when you fire... so much so the other folks at the range thought WTF is that??? ROFLMAO

Ahh the good times.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

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"Hey, baby. Nice Thompson. Wanna lift?"

 

[Ed Smurf]

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Avro Lancaster bomb load, five rows of 1000 lb bombs, four per row.The Lancaster could carry a typical bomb load of around 14,000lbs weight in its cavernous bomb bay, for over 1,600 miles at 200mph. It could also be modified to carry the 22,000 “Grand Slam”.

Those bombs look like they have just come out of 50 years storage except for the tail fins.

 

[HuskyDude]

A 22,000 lb Grand Slam "earthquake bomb" partially inside a B-29 Superfortress' bomb bay. Despite already having a large bomb bay, the B-29's bays had to be modified to carry this huge bomb, which partially protruded out of the bay doors.​

 

[fat tony]

The B29 had a split bomb bay?View attachment 889281

 

[HuskyDude]

NATO-standard 120 mm APFSDS ((Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot) and an experimental 140 mm round.​

 

[bjmurata]

Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of either one of those, damn potent looking rounds.

 

[Dosing]

Just scanning an old British Armourers manual, so thought I would share these.

 

[tokguy]

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NATO-standard 120 mm APFSDS ((Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot) and an experimental 140 mm round.​

Picked up a few discards, CFB Suffield. SIRC would be triggered.

 

[MG1918]

Just thought I would add some MG 'generic' imagery. I guess I can post here to make a change from 'pure' Imperial German MG threads/posts. This is purely because of the helmet!

 

[fat tony]

https://maritime.org/doc/sonar/chap16.php

sofar, harbour defence, other sonar systems...

Before the Mercury spacecraft Liberty Bell 7 could be recovered, it's Sofar bomb had to be defused and removed.

The craft was 4900 metres down for nearly four decades.

I am guessing it was something proprietary as the Mk 22 Sofar device used 4 lb of TNT - sounds too heavy for a spacecraft. Whatever it was, the story is it was a 'dud.' It sounds plausible.