French Bomb

[peteblight]

Can anyone tell me which fuze would have been used with this bomb?

Cheers

Pete

 

[Yodamaster]

If it is a Bomb 10 kg type P (obsolete in 1940) :

For vertical launching :
Fuze 24/31 type H Mle 1921

For horizontal launching :
Fuze 24/31 type H Mle 1921
Fuze RSA Mle 1925 or 1928

If it is a bomb 10 kg type PA :

Fuze type H Mle 1921, RSA Mle 1925 or Mle 1928


Germans used this bomb in AB500 LB cluster bombs with fuze ElAZ 66



Yoda

 

[MINENAZ16]

Hi,

Very strange, the body of the bomb looks like a pottery vase

Cheers.

French 10kg PA

 

[peteblight]

Thanks Yoda.

Minenaz16 - The body is some kind ceramic/pottery. Here's another one in metal with the tail missing, this one has prescored fragmentation on the inner wall.

Cheers

Pete

 

[Fusse2004]

Here the Fuze!

 

[Yodamaster]

And here the second one.


Yoda