Luftwaffe Sd1 Cluster Bomb

[Bill Grist]

Luftwaffe sub-munition (Cluster Bomb) SD1 with AZ73 A3 fuse.. Note Luftwaffe proof on munition 'INERT' Enjoy BILL

[Bill Grist]

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[Jeff V]

Thats neat Bill! What is the size of that roughly?

jeff

[Bill Grist]

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[Bill Grist]

Thats neat Bill! What is the size of that roughly?

jeff

Jeff, It is 7 inches tall and is almost the same size a a 50mm mortar round.. They also used captured French 50mm mortar rounds as cluster bombs called the SD1(f)... BILL

[Jeff V]

Thanks for the info Bill. I have not seen one of those before.

jeff

[Bill Grist]

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Thanks for the info Bill. I have not seen one of those before.

jeff

Jeff, The Germans also used 7.5cm and 8.8cm artillery projectiles and a bunch of captured foreign aritllery projectiles as as cluster munitions and put bomb fins on them.....BUT the Japanese really had some unique ones really strange..will post some in the near future...glad you enjoyed it BILL

[Zünder]

It's no surprise SD 1 has just about the same dimensions as the 5 cm Wgr. mortarround, their body's are the same.

Germans made clusterbombs out of 8,8, 10,5 and 15 cm shells, as well as bombs out of french surplus 52 cm shells, i've never heard of 7,5 cm shells being converted, any info on that available somewhere ?

SD-1 was packed in large container, different sizes exist:
- AB-500, containing 392 SD-1
- AB-250, containing 224 SD-1
- AB-70 , containing 50 SD-1