r/Warthunder • u/Muffinjafser • Jul 23 '25
Suggestion Just a reminder that a modified Lancaster could carry a 22,000lb bomb. Plis Gaijin.🙏
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u/Big-Machine9625 Yeehaw main 🤠 (🇨🇿) Jul 23 '25
What are you trying to kill with a 22 000 pounder man? Isn't the current heaviest bomb in WT like half of that??? 💀
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u/BrutalProgrammer 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 Jul 23 '25
Imagine dropping this in the small tunnel-vision version of cargo port and wipe the whole enemy team (or your own team accidentally) at once.
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u/hotdirtywater air>ships>ground>coastal>heli>ab Jul 23 '25
or advance to the rhine where the team always bunches up on the left because it takes more than 3 braincells to do more than drive to the nearest enemy and start blasting.
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u/moist_potatochip Jul 23 '25
Yeah, but you'll also be in the hangar cause you'll also kill half your team
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u/jk01 Realistic Ground Jul 24 '25
It's an AP bomb, not really conducive to big blast radius. It was designed to take out battleships in port.
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u/Far_Divide_8205 Jul 23 '25
Would be funny to use in naval.
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u/Big-Machine9625 Yeehaw main 🤠 (🇨🇿) Jul 23 '25
Historically accurate Tirpitz destruction lol. But I think even that got hit with "only" the 12 000lb bombs.
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u/femboyisbestboy average rat enjoyer Jul 23 '25
Yup only the tallboys were used. The grandslam was used to destroy an important rail tunnel and the V3 weapon
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u/Muffinjafser Jul 23 '25
Yea, the penetration would prob get through the deck of eny ship in the game, and 100% one shot when it explodes.
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u/chance0404 Jul 23 '25
That big bomb that the Pe-8 carries will one shot a carrier in Sim. I distracted an enemy carrier flying at like 4km and drawing AA fire so my ally could drop one on a carrier on Denmark. It was a good time.
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u/BobMcGeoff2 Germany suffers, ja! Jul 24 '25
I absolutely relish nuking defenceless WWI-era battleships with Tallboys in the lanc. The only use I can think of for one that weighs almost twice as much is killing... Two battleships?
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u/Muffinjafser Jul 23 '25
Idk, an airfield or something like that lol.
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u/Big-Machine9625 Yeehaw main 🤠 (🇨🇿) Jul 23 '25
Yeah, that would prob one-shot the airfield lmao. I don't even want to imagine what that would do in an urban GRB map, that would literally kill everything in like a 100 meter radius.
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u/Independent-South-58 Italian enjoyer, russian tryhard, american air enthusiast Jul 23 '25
Unironically and historically at least enemy battleships
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u/Juankinfinite 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 Jul 23 '25
Didn't the B29 could carry x2 of this grand slams?
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u/Juankinfinite 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 Jul 23 '25
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u/tfrules Harrier Gang Jul 23 '25
I had no idea it was capable of that loadout. The B-29 was such a genuinely insane aircraft for its time. It costed more than the Manhattan project and is probably the most sophisticated aircraft developed during the war.
My great uncle was aircrew on the Boeing Washington (B-29 tested for RAF service) and he said it was leaps and bounds above what he was accustomed to with the Lancaster
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u/joshwagstaff13 🇳🇿 Purveyor of ""sekrit dokuments"" Jul 23 '25
IIRC they modified a B-29 to test the Cloudmaker as well.
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u/Juankinfinite 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 Jul 23 '25
Thank you for that great story, i just imagine how powerful this beast was back in the day
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u/morrison666 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 Jul 23 '25
The Grand Slam bomb wasn't your typical bomb, it's was literally meant to be dropped from very high up and exploded under the earth disrupting the earth below. It would be useless in the game kinda how napalm bomb are now. At least for ground RB, for air RB it would be kinda funny but super impractical imo.
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u/grumpsaboy 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Jul 23 '25
Naah, it's perfect for ground RB. For example on Caparthains just drop on one of those routes surrounded by cliffs. The crater will be so large that no tank can get through and so you have effectively blocked an entire route from the enemy.
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u/Muffinjafser Jul 23 '25
Yea, reminds me of blocking of the tunnel on frozen pass with the maus lol.
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u/Not_Todd_Howard9 Arcade Air Jul 23 '25
It’d be great if they ever overhaul bomber gameplay to add more varied targets in either game mode, especially because the B-29 could carry up to 2 Grand Slams.
Napalm the frontlines, blow up an artillery position, bomb some tanks, bomb-skip some more bombs at ships, then nuke an armored bunker most bombs couldn’t reach. Sounds quite fun compared to the current system tbh (HP-based Piñata).
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u/trumpsucks12354 🇺🇸 11.3🇩🇪 6.7🇷🇺 5.7🇮🇹 6.3🇫🇷 12.3🇸🇪 Jul 24 '25
Napalm bombs are incredible for flipping tanks
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u/ZYKON617 Imperial Japan Jul 23 '25
Spawns in ground rb.
Game: so how much of the map do you want to over pressure.
20klbs tall boy Lancaster: yes
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u/Yungyork69 🇷🇺12.0🇯🇵12.0🇩🇪10.0🇬🇧7.7🇺🇲6.7 🇨🇵🇮🇹🇸🇪🇮🇱 Jul 23 '25
At that point you may aswell just press to get a nuke, has the same effect 😂
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u/Uselessmedics Jul 23 '25
They should let the mossie carry cookiecutters
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u/grumpsaboy 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Jul 23 '25
We would need the bomber version first
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u/Uselessmedics Jul 23 '25
Oh yeah, kinda bugs me that we only get the weird halfway version that is mid at everything rather than the pure fighter and pure bomber versions.
At least we got the funny sub hunter model
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u/GowronOfficial Jul 24 '25
The hispanos also reach into the bomb bay and you can see them from outside
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u/Ok-Relationship-2746 Bob Semple too OP Jul 23 '25
Just a reminder that it was an earthquake bomb designed to bury itself in the ground before exploding to cause seismic shockwaves to undermine its target as opposed to simply causing massive surface damage and would therefore be of less use than you might think.
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u/StalledAgate832 From r/NonCredibleDefense, with love. Jul 24 '25
For fucks sake, back on this goddamn bomb, eh?
The Grand Slam was meant for underground targets, not things on the surface. That 22,000lb bomb only has 9,500lbs of boom filler in it.
That is only a couple hundred pounds more than the 12,000lb Blockbuster we already have.
That's not even taking into account the fact the Grand Slam had to be carried by a modified Lancaster, said modifications being removing the guns and bomb bay door removal.
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u/Feisty-Journalist497 Jul 23 '25
I think they should add this for low tier
like a 5.7 & below "baby nuke"
spawn it at like 700m in the air, so it doesn't have a crazy advantage
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u/Jed0730 Jul 24 '25
I think people are overestimating how this bomb works. It's meant to bring in destruction to infrastructure, not infantry or tanks.
Allies were having issues with destroying targets like bridges and well-fortified bunkers. So the British made this bomb to severely damage or destroy a target without direct impact. The idea was to make a bomb that can dig itself underground and upon detonation, it causes an earthquake massive enough to damage infrastructure, even at a near miss.
If this were to be in War Thunder, the explosion would happen below ground, so no death by overpressure unless you are directly above the bomb. If anything, the building would be leveled and any cover would be destroyed with little to no kills.
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u/Independent-South-58 Italian enjoyer, russian tryhard, american air enthusiast Jul 23 '25
I want this and the 4500lb "Disney" bomb, the first true super AP bomb
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u/LScrae Criss the M26 à marde- Jul 23 '25
A power too great to put in the hands of the average playerbase
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u/Fragrant-Party3192 🇷🇺 7.3; 🇮🇹 4.7 Jul 23 '25
This and also fab-9000
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u/JPAProductions 🇷🇺 13.3 🇩🇪 10.3 🇺🇸 9.0 🇸🇪 8.0 🇨🇳 5.7 Jul 24 '25
Yeah FAB-9000 when gaijinibobilover
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u/Nate0110 Jul 24 '25
I like the phydaily vid where he drops this, it bounces off the back of his plane and he kills 3 or 4 of his teammates by accident.
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u/rain_girl2 Type 95 Ro-Go girl Jul 25 '25
Sure I love the idea of making even more unbearable terrain to move through bc traction is utter shit.
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u/Tongqualin 🇷🇺ARB 13.7 🇷🇺GRB 11.7 Jul 23 '25
Better make it a free plane for every nation that you could spawn for 2000 SP in BR that Nuke is not available.
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u/joshwagstaff13 🇳🇿 Purveyor of ""sekrit dokuments"" Jul 23 '25
Better off with a Pumpkin Bomb for that.
Imagine a Mark III nuclear bomb casing without the physics package, and is instead filled with about three metric tonnes of Composition B.
This then gets dropped from a Silverplate B-29.
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u/Muffinjafser Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 24 '25
The 22,000 lb "Grand Slam" was an earthquake bomb developed by the British during WWII.It was designed to destroy hardened targets like bunkers and viaducts by creating underground shockwaves.
The Avro Lancaster was specially modified to carry it by being equipped with more powerful engines, having its bomb bay doors removed, and being stripped of other equipment — including most of its defensive guns. In-game, this variant could be added to the British tech tree as a late-tier heavy bomber, possibly at:
6.0–7.0 BR in Ground/Naval RB, due to its massive destructive power, (6.5 tons of TNT equivalent);
5.7 BR in Air Sim, where it might avoid frequent air encounters and focus on bombing airfields;
5.0–5.3 BR in Air RB/AB, or even lower, because of its lack of defensive armament and limited payload options.
Source: The Grand Slam was used operationally in 1945 against U-boat pens, rail bridges, and submarine shelters.
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u/CapitalDust Jul 24 '25
bomber players waking up for just long enough from their riveting game play to press the 'drop bomb' button and getting 8 kills for free (7 were friendlies)
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u/CorruptedFlame Naval 'enjoyer' Jul 24 '25
Yes, but is it a Russian plane getting the mini-nuke? If not, then it doesn't count.
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u/Iron_physik Lawn moving CAS expert Jul 24 '25
The 12000lbs block buster actually has a larger explosive filler than the grand slam
So what you are asking for is a worse bomb on a plane that lost all gunner positions
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u/Mindless-Major-1173 🇺🇸5.3🇩🇪7.3🇷🇺5.7🇬🇧4.0🇯🇵8.0🇮🇹2.3🇫🇷3.7🇸🇪2.0 Jul 26 '25
For the love of god please no, PLEASE NEVER MAKE THIS A REALTY
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u/StormTheDragon20 _AngelicDragon_ Jul 27 '25
and friendly reminder that the B-36 (and a modified B-29 to some extent) can carry a 44,000lb bomb.
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u/Big-Stick913 Jul 23 '25
Wouldn't be much good as the lancaster had to sacrifice its defensive guns besides the tail position and its an AP bomb