Project E
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Project E was a joint project between the United States and the United Kingdom during the Cold War to provide nuclear weapons to the Royal Air Force until sufficient British nuclear weapons became ava
Set of four Mark 28 nuclear bombs of the type supplied to the United Kingdom under Project E
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Avro Vulcan
Mark 5 nuclear bomb
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The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core American nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from 1952 to 1963.
Project E
…of the weapons at all times meant that neither they nor the bombers could be relocated to dispersal airfields as the RAF desired. Initially, 72 Mark 5 nuclear bombs were supplied for the V-bombers. They had a yield of up to 100 kilotonnes of TNT (420 TJ). The successful British development of the hydrogen bomb, and…
Mark 5 nuclear bomb, side view.
The Mark 5 bomb displaying open doors at front are for insertion of nuclear core
View looking into the nose of a Mark 5, where the fissile pit and final explosive charge segment would be inserted.