Test data are summarized on airburst (Test Able) and underwater (Test Baker) nuclear explosion tests of naval aircraft. The Bureau of Aeronautics target aircraft exposure plans for Test ABLE had as their objective the determination of the effects of the atomic bomb upon aircraft as a function of distance from the center of the burst. Of the 73 aircraft originally provided for the air burst forty remained usable for the underwater bomb test. These forty aircraft comprised nineteen undamaged, ten lightly damaged and eleven moderately to heavily damaged aircraft which were considered, however, to be satisfactory test items. (Author)
Operation Crossroads. Tests Able and Baker
1946
277 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Nuclear Explosions & Devices , Nuclear Warfare , Aircraft , Nuclear explosion damage , Naval aircraft , Damage assessment , Nuclear explosions , Vulnerability , Range(Distance) , Blast , Thermal radiation , Radioactivity , Shipboard , Battleships , Cruisers , Aircraft carriers , Transports , Fighter aircraft , Seaplanes , Water based planes , Flying boats , Catapults , Able shot(Crossroads operation) , Baker shot(Crossroads operation) , Crossroads operation , S/L change 8418