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    I believe you're correct Flying10uk. The US tested a larger conventional bomb just a few years back, but it was only a 'test' in Arizona or such. They said it shook towns many miles away.
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    Flying10UK post #17 I said = Some Lanc's were fitted with radial air cooled engines and paddle propellor blades and were referred to by their crews as "Paddle Steamers" they were well liked by the crews no coolant to be lost, they climbed and flew very well, the Lanc was the only WWII aircraft that could carry the 22,000lb Grand Slam bomb the largest non-nuclear weapon dropped in WWII.

    Harlan That might be the MOAB = Mother Of All Bombs

    The TSAR Bomb from Russiaicon is the largest Nuclear weapon dropped with a yield of 50 Mega tons from Wikapedia ~The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage bomb with Trutnev-Babaev[6] second and third stage design,[7] with a yield of 50 to 58 megatons of TNT (210 to 240 PJ).[8] This is equivalent to about 1,350–1,570 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They wanted to test a 100 MTN bomb but there would have been to much fallout and the plane would not have been able to reach a safe distance presumably destroyed by the shock waves or heat.
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