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So, could a Lancaster be used and was it really considered for dropping nuclear weapons against Japan?
Right, but as I mentioned before, Okinawa was still within reach of Japanese attack elements.
According to James Gibson - History of the US Nuclear Arsenal - Bison 1989.....yes.
Hmmm interesting. Would like to know more specifics about this, such as, which bomb was it meant to carry and how - we know that the US wanted the same bomb crutches that were fitted to the Lanc for carrying Tall Boy for carrying Thin Man, so was it Thin Man that was to be carried - only choice, really, and what of targets? Which targets did they specify for the Lanc?
Hmmm interesting. Would like to know more specifics about this, such as, which bomb was it meant to carry and how - we know that the US wanted the same bomb crutches that were fitted to the Lanc for carrying Tall Boy for carrying Thin Man, so was it Thin Man that was to be carried - only choice, really, and what of targets? Which targets did they specify for the Lanc?
You say that Thin Man was the only choice, ignoring that Little Boy was similar in size to the 4,000lb HC "cookie" which was dropped by the Lancaster by the thousand.
What was the impediment to carrying Little Boy in a Lancaster?
Could you read what I said, wuzak? Did I say there was impediment to it? I want evidence that it was considered, not just hypothesis based on shape and weight.
Can you provide any evidence that it could actually carry it other than that it might be suitable because it looks and weighs about right? Evidence is key here, not just hypothesising because it looks right.
So here's the evidence.
Little Boy was dropped from the same mechanisms used in Lancasters to drop Tallboys.
Little Boy was about 10" (254mm) smaller in diameter than Tallboy and quite a bit shorter.
"Prior to the decision to use the B-29, military officials had given serious consideration to using the British Avro Lancaster to deliver the weapon, which the Royal Air Force had used to deliver the 5-ton Tallboy bombs developed in 1944. The Avro Lancaster would have required much less modification, but Major General Leslie Groves, the commander of the Manhattan Project, and General Henry H. Arnold, the Chief of United States Army Air Forces, wished to use an American plane."
(Little Boy was originally supposed to be approximately 17 ft, but was later reduced to 10 ft),