FUZING:

Nose Pistol No. 27, 42, or 44.

Tail Pistol No. 28, 30, or 37.

COLOR & MARKINGS

TAIL NO.

OVERALL LENGTH

BODY LENGTH

MAX. BODY DIAMETER

WALL THICKNESS

TAIL LENGTH

TOTAL WEIGHT

CHARGE/WEIGHT RATIO

30%

BODY CONSTRUCTION:

Mk II – Hollow steel casting open at each end, with six strength-ening beams welded inside the nose end. Nose bush screwed and welded in nose and filling plug (male base plate) screwed in base, having a central bore. Exploder containers threaded in nose bush and filling plug, secured by locking screws. Rear end of body shaped to receive the tail. Rear face of body has 2 sets of 4 threaded holes for wing bolts of tail and transit base.

Mk I – Similar, with exception of two side fuze pocket near rear end of body, afford-ed by two adapters welded into the body and fitted with exploder containers extending in at a 45° angle to the axis of the bomb.

TAIL CONSTRUCTION:

Cylindrical strut supported by four fins from the tail cone, which is fitted with an arming mechanism for the tail pistol. Forward end of arming spindle has a fork which en-gages fork of tail pistol, and rear end fitted four-bladed arming vane. Arming vanes pro-trude beyond cylindrical strut.

SUSPENSION:

Bomb body has three sets of tapped holes for the securing screws of a central sus-pension lug and fore and aft hoisting brac-kets. Suspension lug is secured by four bolts at center of gravity.

EXPLOSIVE COMPONENTS:

(See Appendix I, page 309)

T.N.T. and C.E.

1070 lbs. Amatol 60/40 or 1018 of Amatol 51/40/9.

REMARKS:

(1) The No. 845 anti-disturbance fuze, formaly incorporated in the nose when Tail Pistol No. 37 was used, is now obsolete.

(2) Tail fine usually painted red when time pistol is used.