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NB-40-S2 Bovul

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This weapon was inspired by the nuclear bomb "Fat Man". The 'Bovul' was a 'nuclear weapon' I made while participating in Season 4 of War Challenge United that ended a couple months ago. It was made to work similarly to its real-life counterpart. More info on Fat Man below:


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According to Wikipedia:

"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was the codename for the type of nuclear weapon the United States detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear explosion in history. It was built by scientists and engineers at Los Alamos Laboratory using plutonium from the Hanford Site, and one was dropped from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar piloted by Major Charles Sweeney."

"The name Fat Man refers to the early design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear weapon with a solid plutonium core. The first of that type to be detonated was the Gadget in the Trinity nuclear test less than a month earlier on 16 July at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. Two more were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb. The Fat Man was retired in 1950."


"The only aircraft capable of carrying the bomb were Silverplate B-29s, and the only group equipped with them was the 509th Bombardment Group at Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico. They would first have to fly to Sandia Base to collect the bombs, and then to an overseas base from which a strike could be mounted.[66] In March 1948, during the Berlin Blockade, all the assembly teams were in Eniwetok for the Operation Sandstone test, and the military teams were not yet qualified to assemble atomic weapons.[67]"

"In June 1948, General Omar Bradley, Major General Alfred Gruenther and Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe visited Sandia and Los Alamos to show them the "special requirements" of atomic weapons. Gruenther asked Brigadier General Kenneth Nichols: "When are you going to show us the real thing? Surely this laboratory monstrosity is not the only type of atomic bomb we have in stockpile?"[68] Nichols told him that better weapons would soon become available. After the "astonishingly good" results of Operation Sandstone were available, stockpiling of improved weapons began.[68]"

"The Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon was based closely on Fat Man's design thanks to spies Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, and David Greenglass, who provided them with secret information concerning the Manhattan Project and Fat Man. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 as part of Operation "First Lightning"."

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Instructions

AG1: Arm for detonation at a set altitude of 600 meters (1968 ft) above ground
AG7: Arm for manual detonation

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor NB-40-S2 Bovul
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 7.9ft (2.4m)
  • Length 13.1ft (4.0m)
  • Height 8.5ft (2.6m)
  • Empty Weight 2,496lbs (1,132kg)
  • Loaded Weight 2,672lbs (1,212kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 66.2lbs/ft2 (323.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 40.4ft2 (3.8m2)
  • Drag Points 3514

Parts

  • Number of Parts 45
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 131