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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Big conventional bombs
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Date: 30 May 89 02:23:28 GMT
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> trolley). How big was this ? I was under the impression that the 22000lb
> `Grand Slam', designed by Barnes-Wallis and used by the RAF against the
> Bielefelt viaduct and the Brest submarine pens, was the largest conventional
> air-dropped bomb ever used (this thing was *huge* and it was a real tribute
> to the design of the Avro Lancaster that it could carry it).

Also used to sink the Tirpitz.  A photo of it was published in
AIR POWER:  KEY TO SURVIVAL by Maj. Alexander de Seversky (Simon & 
Schuster, 1950).