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Operation Outward was a British campaign of the Second World War that attacked Germany and German-occupied Europe with free-flying balloons. It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen and carrying either a trailing steel wire to damage high voltage power lines by producing a short circuit , or incendiary devices to start fires ...
Pages in category "World War II aerial bombs of the United Kingdom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Extensively used in bombs, shells, depth charges and naval mines Baronal: Barium nitrate, TNT and powdered aluminium: Baratol: Barium nitrate and TNT: Used in British hand grenades. Also used as the low velocity explosive lens in the implosion type nuclear weapon, Fat Man: Composition A: 88.3% RDX and 11.7% plasticizer: Composition B: RDX, TNT ...
Bombing of Kingston Upon Hull; Kingston upon Hull was the most severely damaged British city or town during the Second World War, with 95 percent of houses damaged. [ 2 ] Bombing of Liverpool ; Liverpool was the main port to receive cargo from the US
The British bomber crews had intended to bomb the Haagse Bos ("Forest of the Hague") district where the Germans had installed V-2 launching facilities that had been used to attack British cities. However, the pilots were issued with the wrong coordinates, so the navigational instruments of the bombers had been set incorrectly.
Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. 1950s Thermometric bomb: Also called a vacuum bomb, or aerosol bomb, this explosive disperses a cloud of gas or liquid. Time bomb: A bomb that is triggered by the timer. Trinitrotoluene: Commonly known as TNT. 1863 Julius Wilbrand: Germany: Unguided bomb: An air-craft dropped bomb that lacks a ...
The "Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74", commonly known as the S.T. grenade [a] or simply sticky bomb, was a British hand grenade designed and produced during the Second World War. The grenade was one of a number of ad hoc anti-tank weapons developed for use by the British Army and Home Guard after the loss of many anti-tank guns in France after ...