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The description of "The bomb was usually filled with a mixture of 40% amatol and 60% TNT" is unlikely. Amatol is a mixture of ammonium nitrate and TNT, usually 40%/60% respectively, and I suspect that's what this should say, but I don't have access to the reference source.
JohnGDallman (
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17:35, 12 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Why did this bomb have a thing at the side through which it was possible to extract the fuse? Wouldn't it have made more sense for the Germans to make defusing hard? — Preceding
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82.139.81.0 (
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15:09, 24 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Not really. It was designed to explode on impact. It is very useful if your military are handling a lot of bombs, to be able to defuse them easily, and better still to not insert the fuse until shortly before use. the situation with mines (both land and sea) might have been different. All the best: RichFarmbrough, 15:06, 23 May 2015 (UTC).
But see
SC250 bomb for the description of the booby trapped "Y" fuse. All the best: RichFarmbrough, 15:09, 23 May 2015 (UTC).