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Originally Posted by Viikate
So all bombs with same weight belong to same family by your logic? German SC bombs are thin wall high-explosive bombs that kill with blast effect. Not with sharapnels.
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Don't agree with that, sorry. If these weights are accurate:
__________________Fab1000___________SC1000
Weight of HE_______555 kg___________630 kg
Weight of Bomb___1000 kg__________1090 kg
...then both bombs are roughly 60% HE and 40% casing, which makes them blast fragmentation munitions. Pretty much all air delivered bombs are, apart from fuel-air munitions that don't use frag at all, and use different explosive material, and work on a different principle.
My only comment on the radius issue if that given the weight of frag material and HE is roughly the same, you'd need a huge step-up in HE specific power to extend the lethal radius (to a common damage criteria) out by a factor of three. The only 'historical data' needed to settle this issue is the nature of the HE mixes used by the FAB and SC series. If the specific powers are similar, than one is way wrong.
I discourage posting too much info on this topic, specifically any effectiveness calcs. Even if you know the science of all this, keep it offline please as this knowledge kills people everyday.