Cloudmaker
At around 20,000 kg (43,600 lb), the T-12 Cloudmaker was the largest conventional bomb of the US Army Air Forces , developed in 1944 and practically a successor to the British Grand Slam bomb .
As transport aircraft exclusively standing bomber Convair B-36f "Peacemaker" is available, the bomb bay was two Cloudmaker bombs record for a adaptive remodeling.
The Cloudmaker was built to penetrate the ground once dropped from a great height and then create an earthquake-like effect that destroys the target. The main targets were bridges and heavily fortified bunkers that were insensitive to conventional high-explosive or armor-piercing bombs. For this purpose, the point was specially reinforced so as not to deform on impact.
Later, concepts were developed for the T-16, a 22,680 kg (50,000 lb) bomb, but it was never built. Only drop tests of weight dummies were carried out with the B-36.
Technical specifications
- Weight: 20,000 kg
- Length: 5 m
- Largest diameter: 1.37 m
- Welded together from six sub-segments
See also
- Massive Ordnance Penetrator
- Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
- Grand Slam
- Tallboy bomb
- MOAB
- Daisy cutter
- Father of all bombs
