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Joe-3
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Date: 18/10/1951|
Type: Airdrop @380m |
Yield: 42kt
Code named Joe-3 by the US, this was the first Soviet air-dropped bomb test. Released from an altitude of 10 km, it detonated 380 meters above the ground. It was a boosted weapon using a composite construction of levitated plutonium core with a uranium 235 shell.
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