INERT DEACTIVATED WW2 early type German Aircraft Dropped SD1, 1 Kg Splitterbombe. - O 2119 INERT DEACTIVATED WW2 early type German Aircraft Dropped SD1, 1 Kg Splitterbombe. - O 2119 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a WW2 early type (small fin reinforcing ring to the fins) German SD1, 1 kg Splitterbombe. The bomb was introduced in 1942 as an anti-personal air dropped bomb designed to be airdropped in containers . There were 392 SD1 cluster bombs are contained in the AB500-1 container, 224 in the AB250-2 and 50 in the AB70-D1 container. When carried in containers, the nose of the fuse nestled in a cavity in the base of the bomb in front, so protecting the fuse. No safety device was fitted to the fuse. The reinforcing ring on the fins was made longer in 1943. This example retains some of its original red paint to the body and fins. The alloy AZ73 nose fuse is marked in the casting AZ (73 in a circle) A . Opposite to this is stamped waffenampt 48 nzb 1 . See page 138 in German Air Dropped Weapons to 1945 by Wolfgang Fleischer The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess these inert rounds in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 2119