By: SteveO - 27th April 2006 at 17:15
Another pic from tbzz, Tornado GR4 this time 🙂
By: SteveO - 25th April 2006 at 19:57
tbzz posted this pic of a Harrier GR7 dropping retarded 1000lb bombs 🙂
By: eodda - 23rd February 2006 at 17:43
Tomcat1974
For as good pictures as you’ll get on the web, see the responses by Steve O on your 1000lb/BL755 thread of a couple of weeks ago. In the posting with four pictures, the one with the Sea Harriers shows a 1000lb Mks13/18/20 (externally indistinguishable) with a No114 (ballistic) Tail Unit. Note the arming vane on the end of the tail for fuze arming. In the posting following that one Steve O has shown an EOD man carrying out an exercise on a 540lb fitted with a No.118 (retarded) Tail Unit. Note that the arming wane is missing. The relevant tail types are: 540 ballistic – No116, retarded – No118; 1000lb’er ballistic – No114, retarded – No117. The 540 lb is a scaled down 1000 lb’er, so what you see for a ballisitc tail for one is scaled up or down for the other one; likewise the 1000lb’er.
The retarded tail unit has four skin panels which open like a banana. Between the panels are stretched parachute panels and webs to create something looking like an umbrella. The tail unit opens when the bomb is clear of the aircraft to provide a retarded trajectory.
By: SteveO - 23rd February 2006 at 16:11
http://www.insys-ltd.co.uk/operational_areas/PSM/wea_sys.htm
INSYS also continues to manufacture and support the retarding tails for the UK 1000lb and 540lb bombs.
I can’t find any pics or further info on their site 🙁
By: SteveO - 23rd February 2006 at 15:28
I’m finding it hard to get detailed info and pics of British bombs 🙁 I came across this big pic of a inert retarded 1000lb bomb in the USAF website gallery http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060125-F-6911G-013.JPG
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFPN) — Royal Air Force Sgt. John Longstaff (left) and Senior Aircraftsman Philip Martin load an inert 1,000-pound bomb on a British Tornado jet Jan. 25 during Red Flag 06-1 here Jan. 21 to Feb. 18. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald)
By: tomcat1974 - 23rd February 2006 at 07:35
thanx , still more clear picture of the tail assambly would be nice though…at leat for the retartded one
By: SteveO - 22nd February 2006 at 17:16
There are some in this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=53230
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