Who has the biggest bombs of them all?

[SlowwHand]

The B-52H is the US Air Force's long-range, large-payload multi-role bomber ... The B-52 celebrated its 50th anniversary (first flight April 1952) in April ...
www.airforce-technology.com/projects/b52/

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress history, specifications, schematics, pictures, and data. ... Max Payload, 70000 lb (31500 kg). PROPULSION: ...
www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/bomber/b52/

[Urban Ranger]

A ton is 2240 pounds, so 700 tons is a bit more than 70000 pounds.

[Chemical Ollie]

Is it short tonnes or metric tonnes?

[DRoseDARs]

Codenamed: Divine Strake?

Definitions of Strake on the Web:

* Each line of horizontal planking running the length of the ships hull. In small boats this might be a single plank, in large vessels many planks would go to make a skrake
collections.ic.gc.ca/vessels/terms.htm

* A hull plank.

https://www.camelot-sailing.com/glossary.html

* One line of hull planking extending the full length of the vessel. Several planks, placed end to end, may form a strake. Strakes may be defined according to position as follows: the garboard strake is the lowest and rabbets into the keel; the sheer strake, directly below the upper edge of the hull side, is a heavy strake which forms the curve of the top-side, and acts as a chief strengthening agent there. ...
srmwww.gov.bc.ca/arch/pubs/ship/glossary.htm

* This refers to the sections of vertical body panel that extend downwards and slightly outwards at the very bottom of the Insight, which serve to limit the amount of air flow that "leaks" under the car, in order to improve aerodynamics.

https://www.insightcentral.net/KB/faq-terms.html

* An unbroken line of planks or plates running along the side of a vessel from stem to stern.

https://www.godonthe.net/dictionary/s.html

* wale: thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* *In aviation, a strake is an aerodynamic surface generally mounted on the fuselage of an aircraft to control airflow. The strake produces vortices by interacting with the airstream. Aircraft designers change the location, angle and shape of the strake to produce the desired interaction. The strake is commonly confused with a canard or a winglet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strake

Who the f*** keeps coming up with these codenames and why are they playing Scrabble on the military's time and the US taxpayers' dime?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Is it short tonnes or metric tonnes?

It doesn't matter. 70000 pounds / 700 = 100. Unless this ton is 100 pounds or less, the bomb won't fit.

[David Floyd]

Well, a 1 megaton nuclear device doesn't weigh 1 million tons, it creates an explosion equivalent to a millino tons of TNT.

Is it possible the same type of thing is going on here, and the bomb weighs less but creates what would look like 700 tons of TNT going off?

I don't know if that's plausible or not, just my first guess.

[DRoseDARs]

Given this is a US military test and the article quotes "700 tonnes," then 700 tonnes = 1,543,236 lbs, not 70,000 lbs. Short tons would make it 1,400,000 lbs.



Yeah, we're missing something here; this doesn't really make sense as David just pointed out.

[DRoseDARs]

Just read through the article twice. I think the writer just wrote it bad. Either the bomb itself weighs 700 tonnes or the explosion (not the bomb) will be equivalent to 700 tonnes (of tnt I would assume).

[Az]

wtf is wrong with american measurements?!

there are tons and tonnes? and they are different?!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Az
wtf is wrong with american measurements?!

there are tons and tonnes? and they are different?!

The same, just spelled differently.

Examples:

program, programme
dialog, dialogue

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Is it possible the same type of thing is going on here, and the bomb weighs less but creates what would look like 700 tons of TNT going off?

I don't know if that's plausible or not, just my first guess.

Lets use short tonnes and assume the rest of the device has no mass.

1,400,000 pounds of TNT (thanks DRose) / 700,000 pounds (max payload the B-52H can carry) = 20

So you are looking at a chemical reaction that's 20 times more powerful than TNT going off

[DRoseDARs]

Whatever way you spell it, 700 ton(ne)s still isnt 70,000 lbs.

Edit: Wait, is UR agreeing now? Posted this before I saw that post.

[Az]

1,400,000 pounds of TNT (thanks DRose) / 700,000 pounds

actually, it's 2.

[Sikander]

A ton in America = 2000 lbs

A metric ton = 2200 lbs = 1000 kilograms

[alva]

This be a message to Iran?