User:GraemeLeggett/Disney bomb

Disney bomb was a British rocket-powered "bunker buster" bomb of the Second World War. Designed by the Royal Navy, it was only used operationally on a few occasions by the United States Army Air Force.

Design and development
The bomb was designed at the Admiralty DMWD by Captain Edward Terrell.

The body of the bomb was a cylinder with a "sharply pointed nose" forged from steel and then hardened. Actual explosive content was 500 lb Shellite fused with two base-mounted British No. 58 Pistols. The tail of bomb was bolted to the casing. The tail assembly was made up of a bundle of 19 3-inch rockets with six fins for stability. The tail unit weighed 900 lb of the total 4,500 lb bomb weight. the complete bomb was about 4 m long with an overall diameter 0.43 m.

The bomb was intended to be dropped from 20,000 ft. The rocket motors would then ignite at 5,000 ft accelerating the weapon to a much higher velocity (around 730 m/s.)