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A blockbuster bomb or cookie was one of several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire street or large building through the effects of blast in conjunction with ...
Suitcase bomb: Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. 1950s Thermometric bomb: Time bomb: Trinitrotoluene: Commonly known as TNT: 1863 Julius Wilbrand: Germany: Unguided bomb: MOAB: Massive Ordnance Air Burst. Colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs. United States: FOAB: Father of All Bombs 2007 Russia: Electromagnetic bomb: 1962 ...
Biggest box-office bombs Title Year Net production budget (millions) Worldwide gross (millions) Estimated loss (millions) Ref. Nominal Adjusted for inflation [nb 1] The 13th Warrior: 1999 $100–160: $61.7 $69–129: $126–236 [# 1] 47 Ronin: 2013 $175–225: $151.8 $96 $126 [# 2] The 355: 2022 $40–75 $27.7 $93 $105 [# 3] The Adventures of ...
Another “area bombing” raid by the Bomber Command: 264 RAF bombers, out of 295 that had taken off from England (thirteen were lost), dropped 763 tons of bombs on Turin (478 tons of explosive bombs, including eight 8,000-lb and 203 4000-lb blockbuster bombs, and 285 tons of incendiary bombs).
The term began to appear in the American press in the early 1940s, [1] referring to the blockbuster bombs, aerial munitions capable of destroying a whole block of buildings. [2] Its first known use in reference to films was in May 1943, when advertisements in Variety [ 3 ] and Motion Picture Herald described the RKO film, Bombardier , as "The ...
Bugs Bunny is seen reclining on a piece of ordnance (a blockbuster bomb) idly reading Victory Thru Hare Power (a spoof of the 1942 book). [3] He begins laughing uproariously, and turns to the audience to share what he is reading: an assertion that gremlins wreck American planes through diabolical sabotage (he pronounces those words "di-a-bo ...
Blockbuster bombs in the first wave of the raid opened the brick and copper roofs of the buildings and the following incendiaries set them afire. [2] 1,468 (or 7.1%) of the buildings in Lübeck were destroyed, 2,180 (10.6%) were seriously damaged and 9,103 (44.3%) were lightly damaged; these represented 62% of all buildings in Lübeck. [3]
Bombs of lesser power, such as the 500 kg, were only to be used to bring each aircraft's bomb load to maximum capacity. [63] The Luftwaffe did have some blockbuster weight-class (two short tons/4,000 lb) ordnance designs ready for use: the largest bomb in use at this time was the SC1800. It weighed 1,767–1,879 kg (3,896–4,142 lb) of which ...