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Mark 7 "Thor" (or Mk-7' [1]) was the first tactical fission bomb adopted by US armed forces. [citation needed] It was also the first weapon to be delivered using the toss method with the help of the low-altitude bombing system (LABS). The weapon was tested in Operation Buster-Jangle.
W49. The W49 was an American thermonuclear warhead, used on the Thor, Atlas, Jupiter, and Titan I ballistic missile systems. W49 warheads were manufactured starting in 1958 and were in service until 1965, with a few warheads being retained until 1975. The weapon itself was a Mark 28 Y1 warhead modified for the missile role.
Mark 6 – Improved version of Mk-4. (8–160 kilotons, 1951–1962) Mark 7 – Multi-purpose tactical bomb. (8–61 kilotons, 1952–1967) Mark 8 – Gun-assembly, HEU weapon designed for penetrating hardened targets. (25–30 kilotons, 1951–1957) Mark 10 – Improved version of Mk-8 (12–15 kilotons, cancelled May 1952).
Operation: Galactic Storm. " Operation: Galactic Storm " is a 19-part comic book crossover storyline which ran through Marvel Comics ' Avengers related titles – Avengers, Avengers West Coast, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Wonder Man, and Quasar – between March and May 1992. The storyline, which involves the Avengers intervening in an ...
range. 2,820 kilometres (1,750 mi) Flight altitude. 630 kilometres (390 mi). The PGM-17A Thor was the first operative ballistic missile of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was named after the Norse god of thunder. It was deployed in the United Kingdom between 1959 and September 1963 as an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with ...
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lower mass, or a combination of these benefits. Characteristics of nuclear fusion reactions make possible ...
Theatre History of Operations Reports or THOR is a United States Air Force historical ordnance database endeavoring to catalog every bomb dropped by the United States Armed Forces since World War I. The officer overall responsible for the project is Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson. [1] Apart from the project's historical value, the database ...
1957 incident. A Mark 17 on display at the Castle Air Museum. On May 27, 1957 a Mark 17 was unintentionally jettisoned from a Convair B-36 Peacemaker just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico's Kirtland AFB. The device fell through the closed bomb bay doors of the bomber, which was approaching Kirtland at an altitude of 520 metres (1,700 ft).