Avro Lincoln as a Nuclear Bomber?

Random thought that popped into my head but would an Avro Lincoln heavy bomber be able to carry and drop a Fat Man or Little Boy type nuclear bomb? Doing a quick search, comparing a B-29 which was the type that dropped them against the Lincoln they seem to be fairly comparable - the B-29 being slightly better in a lot of the specifications such as able to go 1,350 feet higher and 38 miles per hour faster at maximum speed. Would that be enough to clear the blast area? Payload-wise the weight seems fine but I'm having trouble finding a reliable source for the bomb bay dimensions, the Enola Gay was also apparently modified for the mission. There are of course a number of other factors so thought I'd see if anyone around here might have an idea.
 
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I imagine it probably COULD survive the blast, but given it was a near thing on the B-29s I really wouldn't want to try it. Realistically of course you have the bigger issue that there is no imaginable scenario in which such an arrangement would make sense, the Lincoln was pretty much obsolete from the day it went into service.
 
Oh I knew that the Lincoln fell in that limbo between the end of the war and when the Short Sperrin as the backup and then the V bombers with the Vickers Valiant start coming online in the mid-50s. I was just thinking about some possible points of departure to possible move around some of the dates for British aircraft development such as either bringing the Lincoln into service earlier of pushing back the dates for the V bombers, which is where the Lincoln might of had to step in. That and it just got me wondering if it was possible. :) The Lincoln unfortunately generally seems to be glossed over on the way from the the Lancaster of WW2 fame to the V-bombers such as the Vulcan in the public mind.
 
The Lincoln certainly could carry a nuclear bomb, that was why the upgrade was produced despite it's obscolescence. However what bomb was it going to carry and under what circumstances?
 
The most likely option would of been a Blue Danube device for the tests at Maralinga. If you extend the development time for the V bombers and push their introduction back a couple years then they would of had to use the Lincoln, rather embarrassing to go to all the bother of developing a nuclear weapon but then not have an aircraft to cart them around and drop them. The opposite way is to have them available for the tail end of the war and for nuclear bombs to be available sooner, but that's most likely Alien Space Bats forum material.
 
The Lincoln certainly could carry a nuclear bomb, that was why the upgrade was produced despite it's obscolescence. However what bomb was it going to carry and under what circumstances?
Is it necessary to use Lincoln as a A bomber? British loaned from US around 80 B-29.
 
The B29 was used as a stopgap in the early 50s due to te capability gap between the Lincoln and Canberra and V Bombers. In any case Britain didn't have an A bomb when the Lincoln and B29 were in service. however in ther event that the british did have a bomb before 1950 and the need to drop it it would be the the Lincoln which would do the dropping.
 
Because by 1950 the Lincoln was obsolescent and the Canberra and valiant were 4 or 5 years away, and the B29 was less obsolescent than the Lincoln. (But IMHO still obsolescent, see the ease at which Mig 15s shot down US B29s in Korea)
 
Yeah they should have got B-36's. After all the USAF was at that time testifying to congress that they were uninterceptable...
 
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