Okay, the Usual Suspects® weighed in with several answers, in keeping with their métier, with the discussion revolving around bomb fuzes. Those with a more modern heritage being a little sceptical of the whole tail fuze thing, which was strongly put forth by others with a more historical bent or who's knowledge of the subject is more from books than experience - what I alluded to in my post.
Heh. The pic with this post should get Oldloadr all full of misty-eyed remembrance. Dusty, too.
Bill and Casey opened the bidding at tail fuze, WWII or earlier. The Instapilot weighed in with geekoid corrections (my kinda guy!) and discussed modern fuzes.
Heh. Funny you should mention that. Sitting on a shelf, among other avian products, a visitor to the Arsenal would find this:
A Fuze, Bomb, Nose, M904E2. Note all the integrated arming/fuzing stuff as Dusty pointed out.
Others were more into the historical bombs (this *is* the Arsenal, after all, we like auld stuff (hence why Bill and Dusty have posting privileges, both being older than the Armorer)!
With the Instapilot providing geekoid corrections, Casey chimed in to make his point and reclaim some geek status. He was all after pointing out that, technical nomenclature aside, he was talking about arming vanes, like you would find in bombs like this Brit one, a 250 pounder from WWII, or this fuze, percussion, aircraft, bomb, tail, No. 30 Mark III, which I would note is integrated in ways that the Instapilot was suggesting wasn't the case for older fuzes that he was familiar with.
Though, in fact, Casey was really talking about something more like the AN-M64 500lb General Purpose bomb, a standard piece of ordnance of the USAAF/USAF for many years, with these two options for tail fuzing.
Oh, and why does the Armorer have a modern inert bomb fuze in the Arsenal? It was fate.
Okay, we went through all that for a reason - the big reveal!
Remember this line from yesterday's post?
Let's see whose experience leads them where on this one.
It took you exactly where I expected, given those that chose to play (including MajMike's contribution).
And... yer wrong.
Keep trying, boys and girls.
Well, you're not completely wrong.
You've got function nailed in fact.
But you're way off on application.
*Not really.
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