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Originally posted by m21sniper
ONLY a couple well placed bombs of 5-6000lbs?
LOL!
That's like saying "only a few .500 nitro express rounds will take down a charging elephant". 
The Battleship Mushashi, sister ship to Yamato and about equivelantly protected to the Iowa class ship pictured above, took 9 armor piercing bombs and seven heavy weight Mk13 torpedos to sink.
The USS Cole- typical of modern warship designs- was almost blown in half with a rubber boat full of C-4.
There is something to be said about 'the way we used to make em'. 
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Calculated speed at impact of the Tall Boy was 2500 miles per hour. It was a great deal more than conventional armor pierching bombs. A Lancaster could only carry one.