Swiss bombs - Cold war era

[Dreamk]

A photographer named Ank Kumar posted on wikipedia a collection of good photographs he took at the Swiss Air Force Museum in Dubendorf, Zurich. They include among other armaments quite nice pictures of Swiss bombs.
Click on the thumbnails to open the High Definition pictures (you can even read the identification of the bombs and sometimes even other details)

(the files are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license therefore we can freely post them here under the condition giving appropriate credit to their author and providing a link to the Creative Commons license here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)



(If you happen to be also interested in rockets and aircraft guns, the full link is here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aircraft_weapons_at_Flieger-Flab-Museum_Dübendorf )


Enjoy!

 

[rigby]

Here are a little bit information about the swiss bombs.

 

[AKON_]

I have a book in the library at home. If there are 8 people and they ask me I will scan the catalog from the book section of the air bomb fuse.

 

[weberoed]

I'd like a scanned copy. thanks

 

[Eggburt1969]

I'd also like a scanned copy.

 

[MINENAZ16]

A third !!!

 

[MT-LB]

And here number 4 please

 

[strakv]

Count me as fifth

 

[Joerg]

Ich hätte auch gerne eine gescannte Kopie.

 

[rigby]

To shorten the time until the copy of the fuse book is ready, here is something about swiss bombs and rockets.

 

[Dreamk]

Rigby, Thanks a lot for these docs!

As an addition to the second batch of documents posted by Rigby, I uploaded a scan of the Oerlikon brochure of the SURA 80mm Rockets that saw wide use all in countries other the world from Finland to Israel and others - It will be available in the download section in a couple of days after moderators' authorization. (I must have somewhere the brochure of the Oerlikon SONORA 81mm rockets - I'll try to find it and upload it.)

Akon, I am also interested in the bomb fuzes scans.
So you have now your 8 "persons of interest" cry: Yes, I know, it's a bad pun, but I could not resist :tinysmile_hmm_t


Meanwhile, a couple of additional photographs of Swiss bombs :

 

[Nabob]

No 8, prosím

 

[AKON_]

Greetings gentleman :
7 not 8 brave, Bravo.
I'm going to scan tonight it will be on the server
Akon

 

[AKON_]

Zdravím
gentleman: 7 ne 8 statečných, Bravo.
Chystám se skenovat
dnes večer to bude na serveru Akon

 

[Dreamk]

Interestingly the Tavaro time fuze developed for the Dutch in the thirties does not appear to have been used by the Swiss on their bombs.
This fuze was mounted on a 25kg Frag bomb (Vliegtuigscherfbom van 25kg) and possibly also tested on a 8kg frag bomb, transforming it into a Anti-Aircraft bomb.
Here are photos of this fuze :

 

[AKON_]

Hi Dreamk Here a colleague described the watch movement in quite detail
Source :
http://docplayer.org/118708683-Tavaro-uhrwerk-von-ingo-kaim-exner.html
Fa Tavaro ...
Source :
http://www.parc-hentsch.ch/useruplo...rommel_Etude_historique_UsineTavaro_Tome1.pdf
http://www.parc-hentsch.ch/useruplo...rommel_Etude_historique_UsineTavaro_Tome2.pdf