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Modified Finnish 100kg Tolfvan bomb

Dreamk

Well-Known Member
The replacement of the original ElAz fuze on booty German bombs by their new users, substituing a vane driven fuze, is well known.
But it appears that the opposite was also true - A 100kg Tolfavn bomb is/was on sale in a Finnish auction site, displaying a fuze pocket on its body for an ElAz fuse, while an obturator was added at the place of the original vane armed fuze.
Finnish 100kg mine bomb as shown in the pictures, which has been modified to use a German Elaz...jpgFinnish 100kg mine bomb as shown in the pictures, which has been modified to use a German Elaz...jpgFinnish 100kg mine bomb as shown in the pictures, which has been modified to use a German Elaz...jpg

Here's a wartime photo from the Finnish National Archives of the insertion of the original Finnish fuze in the tail of a similar 50kg bomb:

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