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Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)Why is Thailand considered an Axis power in WWII?How did Hitler behave towards all those whom he knew in his childhood and youth after he rose to power?What is the equivalent buying power of one 1945 Reichsmark in 2016 Euros?Why was Spanish Fascist dictatorship left in power after World War II?What level of public support did Adolf Hitler have in his final year of power?Why did ZANU (instead of ZAPU) come to power after the Rhodesian Bush War?Was there a “European Balance of Power Strategy” for Anglo-American interests in between 1925 and 1935?Why was the Cold War carried out over the whole world instead of between Siberia and Alaska?Where can I find data on the amount of fuel carried by WWII Warships and what their operational ranges were?
In the 1957 film Bombers B-52 an instructor says of the then-new B-52 Stratofortress:
“On a single mission one of these airplanes, just one, can carry greater destructive force than that of all the bombs dropped by the Allied Air Forces during the whole of World War II”.
Is there a sense in which this statement can possibly be true? At what I find, the B-52 could carry up to 32,000 kg of weapons, while “between 1939 and 1945, Allied planes dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on Axis powers” (source), that is, five orders of magnitude more. Of course a part (how large?) of the B-52 payload could consist of nuclear devices: would this balance the account? Was that sentence just a hyperbole?
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In the 1957 film Bombers B-52 an instructor says of the then-new B-52 Stratofortress:
“On a single mission one of these airplanes, just one, can carry greater destructive force than that of all the bombs dropped by the Allied Air Forces during the whole of World War II”.
Is there a sense in which this statement can possibly be true? At what I find, the B-52 could carry up to 32,000 kg of weapons, while “between 1939 and 1945, Allied planes dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on Axis powers” (source), that is, five orders of magnitude more. Of course a part (how large?) of the B-52 payload could consist of nuclear devices: would this balance the account? Was that sentence just a hyperbole?
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In the 1957 film Bombers B-52 an instructor says of the then-new B-52 Stratofortress:
“On a single mission one of these airplanes, just one, can carry greater destructive force than that of all the bombs dropped by the Allied Air Forces during the whole of World War II”.
Is there a sense in which this statement can possibly be true? At what I find, the B-52 could carry up to 32,000 kg of weapons, while “between 1939 and 1945, Allied planes dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on Axis powers” (source), that is, five orders of magnitude more. Of course a part (how large?) of the B-52 payload could consist of nuclear devices: would this balance the account? Was that sentence just a hyperbole?
world-war-two cold-war aircraft
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In the 1957 film Bombers B-52 an instructor says of the then-new B-52 Stratofortress:
“On a single mission one of these airplanes, just one, can carry greater destructive force than that of all the bombs dropped by the Allied Air Forces during the whole of World War II”.
Is there a sense in which this statement can possibly be true? At what I find, the B-52 could carry up to 32,000 kg of weapons, while “between 1939 and 1945, Allied planes dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on Axis powers” (source), that is, five orders of magnitude more. Of course a part (how large?) of the B-52 payload could consist of nuclear devices: would this balance the account? Was that sentence just a hyperbole?
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The B-52 was capable of carrying thermonuclear weapons. By 1957, these had yields measured in megatons.
For example, the Mark 39 nuclear bomb had a yield of 3.8 megatons and the B-52 was able to carry multiples of these (the B-52 in the Goldsboro incident was carrying two of them).
Therefore, if you take the quoted 3.4 million tons of bombs as a starting point, then a single Mark 39 was (theoretically) more powerful than those combined. If you add a second, then it's more so.
The heavier Mark 36 nuclear bomb was also in service in this time period and one variant had a theoretical yield of up to 19 Megatons.
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Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
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You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
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The B-52 was capable of carrying thermonuclear weapons. By 1957, these had yields measured in megatons.
For example, the Mark 39 nuclear bomb had a yield of 3.8 megatons and the B-52 was able to carry multiples of these (the B-52 in the Goldsboro incident was carrying two of them).
Therefore, if you take the quoted 3.4 million tons of bombs as a starting point, then a single Mark 39 was (theoretically) more powerful than those combined. If you add a second, then it's more so.
The heavier Mark 36 nuclear bomb was also in service in this time period and one variant had a theoretical yield of up to 19 Megatons.
answered 2 hours ago
KillingTimeKillingTime
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Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
1 hour ago
1
You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
– LangLangC
1 hour ago
add a comment |
The B-52 was capable of carrying thermonuclear weapons. By 1957, these had yields measured in megatons.
For example, the Mark 39 nuclear bomb had a yield of 3.8 megatons and the B-52 was able to carry multiples of these (the B-52 in the Goldsboro incident was carrying two of them).
Therefore, if you take the quoted 3.4 million tons of bombs as a starting point, then a single Mark 39 was (theoretically) more powerful than those combined. If you add a second, then it's more so.
The heavier Mark 36 nuclear bomb was also in service in this time period and one variant had a theoretical yield of up to 19 Megatons.
answered 2 hours ago
KillingTimeKillingTime
3,49412029
1
Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
1 hour ago
1
You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
– LangLangC
1 hour ago
add a comment |
The B-52 was capable of carrying thermonuclear weapons. By 1957, these had yields measured in megatons.
For example, the Mark 39 nuclear bomb had a yield of 3.8 megatons and the B-52 was able to carry multiples of these (the B-52 in the Goldsboro incident was carrying two of them).
Therefore, if you take the quoted 3.4 million tons of bombs as a starting point, then a single Mark 39 was (theoretically) more powerful than those combined. If you add a second, then it's more so.
The heavier Mark 36 nuclear bomb was also in service in this time period and one variant had a theoretical yield of up to 19 Megatons.
answered 2 hours ago
KillingTimeKillingTime
3,49412029
The B-52 was capable of carrying thermonuclear weapons. By 1957, these had yields measured in megatons.
For example, the Mark 39 nuclear bomb had a yield of 3.8 megatons and the B-52 was able to carry multiples of these (the B-52 in the Goldsboro incident was carrying two of them).
Therefore, if you take the quoted 3.4 million tons of bombs as a starting point, then a single Mark 39 was (theoretically) more powerful than those combined. If you add a second, then it's more so.
The heavier Mark 36 nuclear bomb was also in service in this time period and one variant had a theoretical yield of up to 19 Megatons.
answered 2 hours ago
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Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
1 hour ago
1
You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
– LangLangC
1 hour ago
add a comment |
1
Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
1 hour ago
1
You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
– LangLangC
1 hour ago
1
1
Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
1 hour ago
Nice work - you beat me to this. Here is a yield curve diagram.
– Pieter Geerkens
1 hour ago
1
1
You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
You beat me to it. :-)
– sempaiscuba♦
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
– LangLangC
1 hour ago
Guys! You wonder? Look at the name? ;)
– LangLangC
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