Stand Off ?

[Weasel]

Can anyone tell my what this US bomb is with the stand off rod is please, if that is what it is ? Really i need some info about the fuze as i have not seen it used before except on some German WW2 air dropped bombs.
Best regards Weasel.

 

[Tmine35]

Would it be a kind of "Stachelbomb" as Germans had - to explode abobe ground to deliver maximum number of splitters?

 

[Weasel]

Thank you Tmine, you are right, i had not seen a US one before and would be interested in any drawings or pictures of the fuze.
Best Weasel.

 

[US-Subs]

It looks like a normal 100lb bomb, but I don't think I've ever seen that fuze before. This is about as close as I could zoom in on it.

 

[Ivashkin]

Bombs with the same fuze were useing in USSR. In old books it isn`t rare zuse, but I don`t know name of Soviet example. As I know, it used no longer as second part of 1930th.

 

[batonroundcollector]

this is a daisy cutter-type fuze, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_cutter_(fuse)

 

[cornman]

Fuze extenders as used by the US were not uncommon in the Vietnam war. I'm sure if you google, you can find pictures of them.

Regards, Cornman

 

[US-Subs]

Yes, but they were a completely different technical approach than what we are shown here. They involved basically an extension of the bomb and explosive, no alterations to a fuze itself. As you say, they are common and well known, but this is not.

 

[butterfly]

I suspect the Skyraider aircraft is operating during Korea.

Here is a link to an excellent website known as 'the Korean War Project'.
http://www.koreanwar.org/

If you look under history reference for example you can find lots of documents, maybe somewhere lies the answer to what this extension to the fuze is?
http://www.koreanwar.org/html/usmc_korean_war_records.html

I would imagine as the photo appears to be from Life - it may be possible to narrow things down, if you could find a date the photo was taken/unit involved it would make searching much easier.

regards Kev

 

[HAZORD]

It is a very interesting combination. I would agree that it is probably Korea. 100 Lb. bombs were relatively uncommon in use by the U.S. and were mainly used for bombing runways. With these Denort rods attached to the middle of the fuze, you would get a "daisy cutter" effect. Skyraiders were used in Vietnam for close air support as they were very durable, could loiter for hours, and carry a huge ordnance load. The 5 inch HIVARs allow for standoff. Since the Chinese were know for human wave attacks, I'm thinking the daisy cutters would be handy to drop into large concentrations of troops. Never seen one screwed into a fuze though, and never seen that fuze before.