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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 ...
The earthquake bomb, or seismic bomb, was a separate but related concept that was separately invented by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis early in World War II and subsequently developed and used on land against strategic targets in Europe. [12] The earthquake bomb also used the concept of an explosion in a dense medium.
The Allies and Germany deployed acoustic mines in World War II, against which even wooden-hulled ships (in particular minesweepers) remained vulnerable. [36] Japan developed sonic generators to sweep these; the gear was not ready by war's end. [36] The primary method Japan used was small air-delivered bombs.
Depth bombs hung under the wings of an RAF Short Sunderland flying boat. Depth charges could also be dropped from an aircraft against submarines. At the start of World War II, Britain's primary aerial anti-submarine weapon was the 100 lb (45 kg) anti-submarine bomb, but it was too light to be effective.
The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes Wallis, whose "Upkeep" bouncing bomb was used in the RAF's Operation Chastise of May 1943 to bounce into German dams and explode underwater, with an effect similar to the underground detonation of the later Grand Slam and Tallboy earthquake bombs, both of which he also invented.
FIDO was designed to breach the steel pressure hull of a submarine but not necessarily cause a catastrophic implosion, forcing the now-crippled submarine to surface where the submarine and crew might possibly be captured. After World War II, homing torpedoes became one of the primary anti-submarine weapons, used by most of the world's naval powers.
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
In May 1942, following the relative failure of the Baedeker Raids, the development of flying bombs and rockets to target Britain accelerated. [12] The V-1 flying bomb, which was developed by the Luftwaffe at Peenemünde Army Research Center, was the first of the so-called "Vengeance weapons" series. In July 1943, the V-1 flew 245 km (152 miles ...