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JJ_BPK
10-14-2020, 14:16
A WWII British Tallboy bomb was detonated.

ref link: Tallboy, 12,000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallboy_(bomb)

Do you think the boom was the actual bomb or the C4 that they placed on it??

I'm think it was the C4. If the description of the Tallboy is accurate, I think the canal walls would have ruptured and collapsed??

PS: This detonation is already in the wikipedia entry for the Tallboy


Biggest World War Two bomb found in Poland explodes while being defused

WARSAW (Reuters) - The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded underwater on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.

More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 5,400 kg, including 2,400 kg of explosive.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-bomb-tallboy-idUSKBN26Y2K6