B29 "Superfortress" with "Little Boy"

* The B29 after dropping Little Boy(demo 5)
* B29 after dropping Little Boy
* B29 before dropping the bomb.
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## HIstory (about the A-Bomb)

Fat Man "was the codename for the nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear explosion in history. It was built by scientists and engineers at Los Alamos Laboratory using plutonium from the Hanford Site, and it was dropped from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar piloted by Major Charles Sweeney.

The name Fat Man refers to the early design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape; it was also known as the Mark III. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear weapon with a solid plutonium core. The first of that type to be detonated was the Gadget in the Trinity nuclear test less than a month earlier on July 16 at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. Two more were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb. The Fat Man was retired in 1950.. The Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon, called RDS-1, was a copy of the Fat Man draft that had been spied on the Soviet Union.

## In the Game

The B29 with its atomic bomb is a possible victory ticket. If the B29 drops the nuke, It will obliterate the whole map! This leads to an American victory (or the side that dropped the atomic bomb). Therefore, you are also easily vulnerable. the   turrets of a normal B29 are barely there, which is why the plane can hardly defend itself (in Demo 4). In addition, the atomic bomb is only charged when the B29 is in the air. This takes a few minutes. The B29 no longer has to go back to the airfield if the enemy unit somehow survived the atomic explosion (however, 99% is not the case). It automatically reloads. The B 29 can be "easily" destroyed. When a plane flies into it, it crashes. If a B29 has been shot down, a new one will appear after a while. However, this takes a little long compared to other aircrafts. However, it was removed in the final release.

#### Pro

* If the B29 drops the atomic bomb, it usually means victory.
* The Atomic Bomb destroy everything. (the Map, low flying airplans, building,...)
* No longer has to go back to the airport, both when rearming and when refueling

Neutral

* When the B29 starts, a symbol appears above it, indicating how far preparations have been made to drop the atomic bombs. This shows the player how long he has to defend the plane or the opponent how much time he has to shoot the plane down.

#### Contra

* Preparing to drop the atomic bomb takes a few minutes.
* When the bomber is shot down, it takes a while for it to spawn again.
* cannot defend itself
* The enemy, of course, will try everything to shot the bomber down
* The enemy can also conquer the airfield where the b29 takes off ,with light tanks or other aircraft. This leads to the fact that he also receives a B29 with an atomic bomb

## Gallery

The symbol over the B29the symbol some minutes laterthe nuclear explosionThe AftermathThe BombA from Germans captured B29 ( with nuke)TACTICAL NUKE, INCOMING

## Link

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing\_B-29\_Superfortress

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola\_Gay

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little\_Boy