Thanks Guys.
So this bomb could be a 4000lb.
What is the real length of 4000Lb ? In my US documentation it's 2.98m (body : 2.41m), diameter 87cm. Even if this woman is very small the bomb seems to be longer (Sorry Madame !)
The diameter seems to be correct.
Regards
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I found this advertised on ABE books, item number 6 on the link below. it refers to '10,000lb special light case bombs dropped on Japan' date of document 1947 - I dont know if this refers to the bomb shown?? grasping at straws!!
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/thousand/n/200000237/
regards Kev
I have all the OP's and TM's (plus several books and bomb reference sets) for bombs WW I to almost present, over 32 different documents, I'll be damn if I can find a M 121. But to summarize what we know the bomb being pictured is larger then a 4000 lb GP, the few reference to size of the M 121 of course are larger then the M -56. There are several references to the M 121 being used as a large area land clearing bomb in VietNam but being replaced by the ever popular BLU 82. There are a few references to a T 10 with long fins. Replace these fins with large conical and you may have the bomb pictured.
I'll keep looking for a reference and hopefully I'll find my picture.
Nice job Deadline222, very funny.
I'm sure the man who painted white 10 000lb on this bomb never thought we torture our minds that way this night !
Thank you.
Link no work. I only see baby supplies.
What type of aircraft is mentioned?
Note....
The biggest combat aircraft in the world until well after the end of World War 2 was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
The MK 2 "Fat Man" barley fit into the B-29'z bomb bay, and larger bombs warranted the struggling B-36 design program.
The B-29 did carry the ligher of the T series bombs. But these were HEAVY CASE bombs with delay fuzes to cause an earthquake effect. Hence the names......
"10,000lb Special light case bomb".
This bomb would be gargantuan, much like the stack of 55 gallon drums pictured above.
I am not doubting the existence, but whatever it was it did not look like the image of the 4,000 pound AN-M56 that started all of this
And for the record, the B-29's bomb bay was not that big. Like I said, the MK 2 "Fat Man" barley fit inside. Additionally, you can forget the B-17, 24.
If we want to play conspiracy theory, would could say that a Consolidated B-32 dropped these bombs?
B-29 bomb bay pictured with what I assume are 1,000 pounders.
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View attachment 97331Pic taken from one of my reference sets on US bombs, compare this to the previous pictures taken with the man/lady standing by the big bomb, they are not the same - but the 10,000 lb bombs I am find info on do not angle up at the aft end, they appear to be flat across - plenty of references that says the M 121 did exist and most all say pretty much the same thing. One reference says the T 10 of UK design, later became the T 12 (not sure on this) but the final 10,000 lb'er became the T56E4 (M-121). What the pictured bomb stenciled as 10,000 lbs is the question, but it isn't a 4,000 lb one.