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« Reply #60 on: January 14, 2010, 03:30:24 AM »
Here is a sketch of the very early gun shape being dropped at Wendover, based on the photos in the Coster-Mullen "Atomic Bomb" book.
Presumably the device was to have a massive tamper in the nose and a long gun tube. The length might reflect a higher velocity gun, either to make sure a U235 weapon wouldn't pre-detonate and/or before it was clear that even at high velocity, a Pu weapon could not work due to pre-detonation.

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« Reply #61 on: January 14, 2010, 06:24:36 AM »
Quote from: TsrJoe on January 14, 2010, 02:34:19 AM
http://www.inteligenciaartificial.cl/ciencia/quimica/wuwa.htm

a 'dodgy' site but the reactor images might be of interest ...

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« Reply #62 on: January 27, 2010, 05:30:42 PM »
cool thanks for posting the sketch 'sagallacci' definately a different configuration for sure, sortv like a stripped out 'Little Boy'

meanwhile, Antares 1/48 scale resin German weapons ...
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« Reply #63 on: January 27, 2010, 05:44:20 PM »
Ar.234 with speculative 'uranium bomb'
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« Reply #64 on: January 27, 2010, 05:48:03 PM »
iv made a 1/32 scale 'small uranium bomb' with 'saddle' based on the Georg/Shestakov artwork, just to be different iv a Hasegawa Fw.190F.8 which i'll mount it beneath as opposed to the Me.109 or Ju.87 usually depicted

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« Reply #65 on: February 01, 2010, 12:03:09 AM »
http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9819&pid=52917&st=0&#entry52917



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« Reply #66 on: February 08, 2010, 01:29:53 PM »
a generic schematic of a possible 'atom bomb' from a post war German publication ...
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« Reply #67 on: February 09, 2010, 01:42:37 AM »
Interesting fin arrangement on that conceptual drawing. 
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« Reply #68 on: February 09, 2010, 12:11:39 PM »
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on February 09, 2010, 01:42:37 AM
Interesting fin arrangement on that conceptual drawing. 

Indeed. Could it actually be a shroud over a parachute pack, i.e. it's designed to blow off alomst immediately after dropping?
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« Reply #69 on: February 11, 2010, 05:19:29 PM »
Looks more like a WAG of the US Mk3/Fatman configuration and the tail is just bad art/simple drag plate.
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« Reply #70 on: February 25, 2010, 09:29:39 AM »
reference to 'enriched uranium' ...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93649575
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« Reply #71 on: May 17, 2010, 12:42:12 PM »
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3247.105.html


a few updated posts of possible interest ...
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« Reply #72 on: June 08, 2010, 12:23:18 PM »
SA.4000 V3 radiological 'dirty' bomb at RAF. Museum storage facility Stafford

reference, 'Aeroplane' June 2006

quote, Curator Ewen Cameron ... 'one of Hitler's nuclear weapons. Not a fission weapon, but the original dirty bomb. It was designed to drop a mixture of radioactive isotopes and high explosive; the conventioinal explosion would scatter radioactive contamination over a wide area'

note the V3 and SA.4000 notations on the casings, applied by allied forces for identification

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« Reply #73 on: June 10, 2010, 11:33:40 AM »
http://www.sharkit.com/sharkit/18b/18b.htm
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« Reply #74 on: June 10, 2010, 02:49:52 PM »
cool nice 3d renders, an interesting bomb configuration too, different from the norm, is the Horten XVIIIb avaliable as a kit as yet ?
(i had started scratchbuilding one til i discovered the drawings i was using didnt match those shown on an original i later found...typical!)

many thanks, Joe
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