Was a four engine torpedo bomber ever considered?

[EwenS]

But the fact is that how and why they bounce has a big difference in the damage they do. Skip-bombing a troopship with 500-lb HE is going to kill a lot of soldiers being transported, while bouncing a Highball against an armored combatant is a great way to get below its belt and use the essential incompressibility of water to magnify the bomb's utility.

Didn't always work however..

The hole made in the side of HMS Malaya by a Highball during trials in Loch Striven in May 1944.

https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/community/131874=13746-Barnes%20Wallis%20letter2.jpg

https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/community/131874=13747-Leo%20at%20loch%20Striven.jpg

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Didn't always work however..

The hole made in the side of HMS Malaya by a Highball during trials in Loch Striven in May 1944.

https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/community/131874=13746-Barnes%20Wallis%20letter2.jpg

https://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/community/131874=13747-Leo%20at%20loch%20Striven.jpg

Nothing always works, yeah.

 

[SaparotRob]

My Dodge Dart did.

 

[GTX]

The Lanc dropping torpedoes would have been a badass sight to behold.

Well, maybe not for the intended victims, though...

Well the AVRO Manchester was designed to carry torpedoes:

And one could argue that the Rolls-Royce Vulture was a twinned engine whereby cylinder blocks derived from the Rolls-Royce Peregrine were joined by a common crankshaft supported by a single crankcase, so one might argue it does qualify as a 4 engined torpedo bomber design...

 

[GTX]

And in a similar vein, the He-177:

 

[EwenS]

Well the AVRO Manchester was designed to carry torpedoes:

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And one could argue that the Rolls-Royce Vulture was a twinned engine whereby cylinder blocks derived from the Rolls-Royce Peregrine were joined by a common crankshaft supported by a single crankcase, so one might argue it does qualify as a 4 engined torpedo bomber design...

See post #6 on page 1. The torpedo dropping requirement was dropped in Aug 1937, only a few months into its development and 2 years before it flew.

 

[GTX]

See post #6 on page 1. The torpedo dropping requirement was dropped in Aug 1937, only a few months into its development and 2 years before it flew.