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Pennant Grapple Z
/ Main Archive / UK /
Date: 18:00 22/08/1958|
Type: Baloon @450m |
Yield: 24kt
The first shot of Grapple Z, codenamed Pendant. Rather than being dropped by an aircraft, the bomb was suspended from a string of four vertically-stacked barrage balloons. Pendant had a 24 kiloton yield and used solid fusion boosting with lithium deuteride.
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Published on: 2010-02-22 (3306 reads) [ Go Back ] |
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