Effect of bombs on Tirpitz

[paul.mercer]

Gentlemen,
As you all know Tirpitz was finally capsised by 6 ton bombs from RAF Lancasters, was there ever any evaluation of what the effect of these bombs had on her armour (I Know she was sunk!) I would imagine that some would have gone straight through her and did'nt actually need to explode to cause mortal damage.

[Herr Nilsson]

http://www.kbismarck.com/tirpitz-technical-report.html

[RF]

This is a pretty comprehensive report, and it demonstrates the strategic consequences of having a force of heavy bombers, an arm the Luftwaffe never properly developed.

[Bgile]

It also demonstrates the danger of having large outboard voids and not ballasting partly full fuel tanks.

[celticmarine10]

Even if the Tallboy's didn't detonate, they would still cause a huge amount of damage by going right through her. I think this happened to the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest didn't it?
regards,
Celticmarine

[RF]

And if the Tallboys failed, there was always Grand Slam. As evidenced by their demolition of the Beiliefeld railway viaduct - without actually hitting it.