CONSTRUCTION. The bomb body consists of a steel cylinder to which is welded an ogi-val nose section of light sheet steel. A cast steel nose piece is welded to the sheet steel nose section. A truncated cone of sheet steel is welded to the base of the body cylinder and is fitted to the after portion of the central exploder tube. A steel tube runs from the nose of the bomb to a point on the fuze pocket just above the bottom of the fuze. An anti-break-up rod is placed in this tube and serves to activate the fuze is the regular trembler switches fail to function. (See fig. 56.)

The tail assembly consists of a cone to which four fins are welded. The cone is riveted to the after end of the body cylinder. Bar-type struts reinforce the four tail fins.

OPERATION. On impact the fuze functions and fires the 1.25 kg TNT charge. This explo-sion not only breaks open the case but it ignites the petroleum filling and allows the charcoal and magnesium filled tubes to mix with the petroleum. This mixture creates an extremely hot fire and a very difficult fire to control.

SUSPENSION. This bomb may be suspended either horizontally or vertically by a single suspension eyebolt.

COLOR AND MARKINGS. The body and tail assemblies are painted dark grey over all.

Figure 56 – KC 250 Flam Bomb