High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The British "Victory Bomber" was a Second World War design by Barnes Wallis at Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft for a bomber to carry his projected 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) "earthquake bomb" to strategic targets in Germany. Aircraft designer Barnes Wallis reasoned that by selectively destroying strategic infrastructure targets, the German capacity to make armaments could be reduced. In 1940 Barnes Wallis designed a 22,400 lb (10,200 kg) "penetrating" bomb that was to bury itself in the ground before detonating. It was estimated that it could break dams like the Mohne if it exploded in the reservoirs within 150 ft (46 m) of the dam's face. No existing Royal Air Force (RAF) bomber could carry such a weapon, and he designed a huge six-engine bomber to drop the bomb from 40,000 ft (12,000 m). Wallis was an expert on geodetic construction of aircraft, having previously used it in designs such as the Vickers Wellington and Vickers-Armstrong Wellesley (1935), and naturally used it again for the Victory Bomber; Vickers were not tooled for other construction methods either.

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