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SIGNAL, PRACTICE BOMB, Mk 6 Mod 0 |
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| Steel, 3.7 lbs | |||
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| Description: |
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| Practice bomb signal Mk 6 Mod 0 consists of a can of black powder fitted with inert fuze AN-Mk 247 Mod 0 and a blank .38-caliber cartridge used as a detonator. The signal is used with practice bombs for observation of bombing accuracy. The Mk 6 is generally the same as the Mk 7 signal except that the fuze is mounted off-center in the Mk 6 and the black-powder tilling weighs about 1 pound more. |
| Use: |
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| Functioning: |
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| Upon release of the bomb from the aircraft, the arming wire is withdrawn, permitting the fuze-arming vane to rotate and arm the signal. Upon impact, the firing pin in the fuze over-comes a creep spring and impinges upon the primer of the blank cartridge, which in tum, ignites the black-powder charge, The resulting explosion produces a flash of light, and a large puff of gray smoke. |
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| Data Source: |
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| TM 9-1325-200, Bombs and Bomb Components, April 1966 |
| Munitions Tech Data Sheet: |
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| MK6_MOD0.pdf |
