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unknown French bomb tail fuze

pzgr40

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Who can give me a type designation and a drawing and/or descriptionof this French post WW2 tail fuze?
The fuze mechanism is comparable to the US M113, with a mechanism added to the backside that allows the propeller shaft to deviate a few degrees when the hole in the back of the tail is not complete straigt in line with the fuze hole in the bomb body.

Thanks in advance,
Regards, DJH
 

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Most 1960s French fuzes were copies of ww2 US Fuzes:
The nose fuzes STA type 10A and 11A were copies of the AN-M103A1
The tail fuze LIP type 25 was a copy of the US AN-M102A2 while the tail fuze STA 112F was a copy of the US M112. Generally speaking copies of US fuzes made by STA were called similarly, just adding F for french: thus the M112 gave way to the STA 112F
This is most probably a STA 113F.
However I must say that I found traces in French archives for this period of testing of the following STA fuzes only:
STA 112A1 (called later STA 112F)
STA 118F and STA 119F
STA 116F and STA 117F
LIP type 25
Noise Fuze STA type 10A and 11A
 
Thank you for the info.
I assume they were used in the ww2 design US bombs and not in the later Mk80 series bombs?

Regards, DJH
 
Yes on the so called "intermediate series" = AN-GP bombs with Conical Fin Assembly.
The conical tail was produced in France by SECAN and was initially identical to the US pattern.
100-lb. G.P. Bomb AN-M30A1 with Fin Assembly M135 (1955) "bombe de 50kg"
250-lb. G.P. Bomb AN-M57A1 with Fin Assembly M126 (1954) "bombe de 100kg"
500-lb. G.P. Bomb AN-M64A1 with Fin Assembly M128 (1954) "bombe de 250kg"
1000-lb. G.P. Bomb AN-M65A1 with Fin Assembly M129 (1957) "bombe de 500kg"
260-lb Frag Bomb AN-M81 with Fin Assembly M135F or M235F
 
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