ID bomb requested

[MYGALE]

I present you a bomb. I don't know ID. It seems to be german or austrian. If some body has answers...?

length : 350 mm, Diameter : 150 mm.
Thanks by advance.

Thierry

 

[Dreamk]

Quite interesting. Where did you find it? it has a strong Austro-Hungarian ww1 look....

 

[sgdbdr]

I thought austro-hungarian too. I looked into this book "Abt 5/L, Nr 3000 v. 1916 Ubersicht uber die an die armee im felde ausgebene Abwurf-munition" and found nothing, but aproaching shapes and sizes.
I don't have any other references

 

[MYGALE]

hi sgdbdr !!!

this bomb was found in Paris. Do you have drawings or pictures on this bomb ?

Thanks.

 

[Fusse2004]

Also I have found nothing in the book by Peter Voß German and Austrian bombs and Fuze.:tinysmile_cry_t4:

 

[MYGALE]

Bad luck... may be next time

 

[Dreamk]

If it was found in Paris this goes towards a German origin rather than an Austro-Hungarian (It's definitively not a French bomb model). It could be a modification of the 10kg Traisen Brandbombe (dimensions 450mm height 150mm max diameter) made by adding a spiral fin to the original model. It seems the original Traisen model had a delay fuze (from 15sec to 2 minutes delay)

 

[sgdbdr]

Hi,


Correct me if I'm wrong, but the spiral fin seems more to have been folded from the casing than welded on it.
What is the thickness of the casing, by the way ?

This book found on Google books but in partial reading "Die k.u.k. Luftfahrtruppe - Die Entstehung, der Aufbau und die Organisation ... byReinhard Karl Boromäus Desoye" speak of a lot more bombs that in the book I quoted in my previous post, but unfortunately, no pics on the readable pages.



Some pictures (with watermark) of KUK bombs on this website
https://dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php?seite=

like this one with keyword 'carbonit' in the search field named 'Titel' : (50kg carbonit)



Regards,

S.

 

[gravelbelly]

Let me toss a wild idea into the debate. The spiral "fins" look too robust (and expensive) to be used on a bomb. The heavy duty loop at the "tail" end looks odd for a bomb too. How about a towed body for a ships' log, the tow wire twists around and the speed of the ship is measured at the ship end of the wire.

It might be a dumb idea but we are stalled anyway.

gravelbelly

 

[Dreamk]

The heavy duty loop at the "tail"is characteristic of German bombs of early ww1 - they were hand dropped. And there is a fuze too....so it's a bomb