T-12 Cloudmaker
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Q450836
The T-12 earthquake bomb was developed by the United States from 1944 to 1948 and deployed until the withdrawal of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft in 1958. It was one of a small class of bombs designed to attack targets invulnerable to conventional "soft" bombs, such as bunkers and viaducts. It achieved this by having an extremely thick, hardened nose section designed to penetrate deeply into the earth before exploding and then damage the target by the resulting shock wave.
1944
Wikimedia, Wikidata
mass 20.1 kilogram,
Vickers Limited, United States, 
earthquake bomb,
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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
T-12-USORDMUS
T-12 Cloudmaker at USAF Armament Museum
US Army Ordnance Museum 1| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| commons | image | T-12-USORDMUS | Commons | ||
| commons | image | T-12 Cloudmaker at USAF Armament Museum | Commons | ||
| commons | image | US Army Ordnance Museum 1 | Commons | ||
