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| ITALIAN AND FRENCH EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE |
| Chapter 8 |
| FRENCH BOMBS |
| 10-kg (P.A.) Anti-Personnel Type I and Type II |
| Data |
| Type I and Type II | |
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Over-all length |
21.5 in. |
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Body length |
Unknown |
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Body diameter |
3.54 in. |
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Wall thickness |
0.5 in. |
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Tail length |
9.3 in. |
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Tail width |
5.5 in. |
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Type of filling |
70% Picric acid, 30% Mononitronaphtalene |
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Weight of filling |
2.5 lb. |
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Total weight |
21.0 lb. |
| Fuzing | |
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Nose only |
24/31 Type H, Model 1921 R.S.A. |
| 24/31 Model 1925 or Model 1928 |
| Description |
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The bomb casings are single-piece steel castings, internally threaded at the nose to ac-commodate the tapered steel fuze adapter. Type II is similar to Type I, with the follow-ing exceptions: no struts are fitted to the tail unit, and strengthening is effected by pressing the lateral and longitudinal corrugations in each tail vane. In Type I, the tail is formed of four similar segments riveted together, fitted over the rear of the bomb, and secured by crimping the tail cone into an annular groove cut in the bomb body. |
| Color and Markings |
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Over-all - yellow |
| Stamped 0.4 in. from noe fuze pocket in letters 0.4 in height - nature of filling. |
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Figure 249 |
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