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Originally Posted by
msbbarratt
I don't know how it was situated on the canal bed, but I can't help but feel the bang would have been bigger if all 2.5+tons of explosive had gone off with the full, original as-new blast energy. Perhaps some of it had degraded, or perhaps it was quite well embedded in the mud (they were designed as ground penetrators), or (just as likely) I don't know what 2.5 tons of explosive looks like when it goes off under water!
Still, pretty impressive none the less, nice of someone to put up a camera drone, and clearly it was a disposal job professionally done
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Imagine that seventy-five years ago, hundreds of them, falling and exploding all over the place😮
The Tallboy was an earth penetrating bomb designed by Barnes Wallace for use on specific targets. They were never hundreds exploding all over the place. It could penetrate 16 feet of concrete, which gave a surprise to those in U boat pens.