bomb load

[′bäm ‚lōd]

(ordnance)

The weight or number of bombs carried by an aircraft.

The bomb or bombs carried.

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The B-52 carries the largest bomb load of any American combat aircraft.

A 4,000-pound bomb load was typical for long missions, but the B-17 could carry 8,000 pounds for shorter distances and at lower altitudes, which proved successful in the carpet-bombing raids on German oil and aircraft industries before the Normandy Invasion.

B-17 FLYING FORTRESS: Airframe Profiles

The bomb load clearly indicates the intention to bomb an area target and in this case it turned out to be an open area near Village Jabba close to Balakot in Pakistan's KPK province.

Balakot and Batgram

The bomb load that day consisted of forty-two 120-lb fragmentation bombs that were to be used against the German troops holding up the Allied advance in Normandy.

NATHAN MAZER AND THE 384TH BOMB GROUP

The bomb load was jettisoned, but the other engine caught fire and the "order given to prepare for ditching".

Hero whose luck ran out

This interior could transform into anything; an aeroplane, a tank, a submarine or spaceship, and we would squabble for control of the upside-down steering wheel to pilot our imaginary craft, swinging it wildly from side to side and flicking switches on the dashboard to launch torpedoes, drop our bomb load, or fire deadly laser beams.

MORNING SERIAL

Only once that I had any problem and there was a wing commander who got very angry about a report that I had one of his people dropping their bomb load way off target.

Keeping her memories alive Phoebe Anne Magee intelligence, no. 6 group RCAF Women's Division

The Germans had more aircraft overall, but these were in squadrons of out-dated, virtually obsolete twin-engined bombers that were poorly armed and could only carry a small bomb load or Stuka dive bombers - good at dive bombing but they were slow and, again, with poor defensive armament, making them easy prey.

Fighting chance THERE is a [...]

Of the Hampden debacle, Steve, from Shirley, said: "It was presumably hoped that, as these aircraft would not be carrying their normal bomb load, their performance would be adequate for the task.

Birmingham's longest night; Seventy-five years ago, Birmingham endured the longest air-raid of the Second World War. Mike Lockley talks to an author who tells the story of that night and the top-secret RAF 'experiment' that cost 270 Brummies their lives

The aircraft failed shortly after take off, forcing Munro to "belly land" the plane and its bomb load near Empingham just minutes later.

Last Dambuster's role remembered

In order to increase their bomb load, the planes were stripped of all guns except for those in the tail section.