To: LeoWindhorse
The amazing thing about is bomber that in 1961 that it carried and dropped a 50 plus megaton bomb and the plane and its crew survived.The bomb, weighing 27 tons, was so large that the Tu-95V had to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed.
3 posted on
04/09/2010 11:08:16 PM PDT by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
Didn’t they make this into a movie in Russia .
(Dr. Strangeloveski)
4 posted on
04/09/2010 11:18:18 PM PDT by
Waverunner
( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
To: sonofstrangelove
To: sonofstrangelove
The amazing thing about is bomber that in 1961 that it carried and dropped a 50 plus megaton bomb and the plane and its crew survived.I was told you could hear it all the way to the coast of the U.S.
Not the bomb, but the plane.
10 posted on
04/10/2010 12:55:55 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
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