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  • Anyhow, they invented... the Americans invented this bomb called the Tallboy Editor: Don is mistaken here - it was a British man named Sir Barnes Wallis which was a 12,000 pounder, a 6 tonne bomb, singe bomb, and they reckoned that would do the trick.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • National Security Technologies had built in 2008 a 500 kiloJoule Dense Plasma Focus called Tallboy that produced 3 MA (million amps) of peak current and is now testing a 1 MJ (million joules) Dense Plasma Focus that is expected to generate over 4 MA (million amps) of peak current, which will make it the most powerful in North America, and possibly in the world.

    Next Big Future 2010

  • Very similar weapons - for instance the British "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" penetrators - designed by legendary bouncing-bomb boffin Barnes Wallis of Dambusters fame, and termed

    The Register 2009

  • Very similar weapons - for instance the British "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" penetrators - designed by legendary bouncing-bomb boffin Barnes Wallis of Dambusters fame, and termed

    The Register 2009

  • Very similar weapons - for instance the British "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" penetrators - designed by legendary bouncing-bomb boffin Barnes Wallis of Dambusters fame, and termed

    The Register 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Tallboy Outdoors wrote 37 weeks 1 day ago

    Kids Fishing Photos 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Tallboy Outdoors wrote 37 weeks 1 day ago

    Kids Fishing Photos 2009

  • Not unless you have done something really serious, and even then you will only serve half your sentence - if that! on March 15, 2008 at 1: 08 pm | Reply Tallboy

    Shannon Matthews « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Tallboy likes to whistle tunes; when he whistles, the birds gather.

    The Philosophy of Charlie Parker 2009

  •   He's real friendly with my brother, but his name's Tallboy.

    The Philosophy of Charlie Parker 2009

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