The Tallboy or Bomb Medium Capacity 12000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and deployed by the RAF in 1944. At five long tons and carried by the Avro Lancaster it was effective against hardened structures against which prior smaller bombs had proven ineffective.
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