Reply With QuoteI'll have to check through my manuals to confirm, but as far as I can recall it's effectively a pistol that fires a cutter down the carrier tube to sever the wires holding each bomb in position.
All the best,
PB
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3rd June 2011, 02:40 PM #1
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M1 cluster bomb "fuse" for M41 A1 20 Lb
Hi
Some one know the special "fuse" of the M1 cluster for ww2 M41 A1 20Lb bomb?
look at the pic added.At the tail of the cluster to drop all the bombs.
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HI
That's right!All pictures or drawings needed,to do a reproduction.Thanks so much.
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It took a while but I finally found a decent drawing:
Source: TM 9-1904 Ammunition Inspection Guide, March 1944.
All the best,
PB
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