B-60A in production

Furthermore, your beloved T 12 will be useless in Vietnam. Blanketing an area with many, smaller munitions has much greater utility against widely spaced soft, surface targets than one bloody enormous 'bang'.

Except the first Daisycutters for clearing LZs were old T-10 aka US made Tallboys

Sometimes bigger was needed.

Like the Dragon's Jaw Bridge, that 500 pounders bounced off from.
 
B 36: Designed from the outset for large number of conventional munitions - no internal space can be freed (unless you want to cut the structural members - good luck with that) - it's already at maximum efficiency.

seems like they could do major changes
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