You can always rely on the bloody minded stupidity of a British town planner to take the worst possible course of action.
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You can always rely on the bloody minded stupidity of a British town planner to take the worst possible course of action.
Asian Jumbo
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I had a Politics lecturer who described it as all happening in a “post-war euphoric haze” which always felt like too friendly a term to use to describe such damage frankly
There was a period post war when, 'new was better' and great swathes of perfectly good historic architecture were swept away in the name of progress.
Cultural vandalism is what it was, and a crime against the human spirit. Human scale streets and buildings bulldozed and replaced by brutalist concrete monstrosities and the overwhelming domination of the car over people.
Opps, I seam to have climbed onto a soap box.
Opps, I seam to have climbed onto a soap box.
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No the 'Longbow' is a product of my imagination for TTL. I was trying to create a bomb that had more explosive power than most OTL bombs used by the FAA. So a 1500lb cruiser killer seemed reasonable as it could be carried by TBR aircraft like the Swordfish of OTL on the torpedo rack or as ITTL by the monoplane Albacore TB aircraft . I hope you find the premise logical and reasonable for the FAA within the PAM. Ordinance development for the RAF will be covered in a post soon.
So basically a torpedo body with the guts removed and replaced with extra explosives and metal to give armour piercing ability?
Glyndwr01
Banned
Make it a mini Disney?
Disney bomb - Wikipedia
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The Disney bomb, also known as the Disney Swish,[4] officially the 4500 lb Concrete Piercing/Rocket Assisted bomb was a rocket-assisted bunker buster bomb developed during the Second World War by the British Royal Navy to penetrate hardened concrete targets, such as submarine pens, which could resist conventional free-fall bombs.
It read more to me like they are designed for direct hits, being specially hardened to allow for armour penetration. In the described attack they would have a second chance- the shallow harbour would allow a near miss to create a mining effect on the hull, potentially breaking the keel.From the explanation in the story they're more akin to a mine that would go off just under water alongside a ship and damage it that way. So I see them as being more akin to a smaller Cookie.
ITTL the 1500 lb aerial mine being dropped by the RAF Wellingtons is analogous to a small 'Cookie', where as in OTL there is no strait equivalent of the 'Longbow'. It is basically a long GP bomb designed to fit on Torpedo shackles and has a hardened nose section to give it some minor AP potential and to allow it to bury itself in dock yard infrastructure (like a mini tallboy) to enhance cratering.
Do you have a downloadable story only version of this so I can read it offline?
ITTL the Fairy Albacore has similar performance to the Nackajima BN-5 and looks like a cross between an OTL Battle and a Fulmar but with a radial engine.
Unfortunately no downloadable story only version exists yet. That was the major casualty of my Tea incident and I have not yet rebuilt it.
Or just stick with Barnes Wallis skipping marbles over his garden pond?
Driftless
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I'm actually surprised the idea of skipping a weapon wasn't thought of in the early 30's and put into trial. It's almost intuitive - it shouldn't have required a Barnes-Wallis level of genius. You could approach your target with some speed (greater than a torpedo plane) before releasing the bomb/mine. The greater speed also should increase the chance of hitting the target and of survival by the plane and crew.
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