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Old 16th Oct 2020, 08:22
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Originally Posted by kangaroota
How were these things detonated? Presumably you didn't want them going off on impact but wait until they buried themselves a bit.
Apparently it had three tail pistols no. 58 mk1. The description is as follows: https://bulletpicker.com/pistol_-tail_-no-58-mk-1.html

Regarding the Tallboy description, is as follows per "British Explosive Ordnance NAVORD 1665 10th June 1946", page 49
Detonators—Sensitive type, delays up to 60 min. as required operationally.
Exploders
- Primary: 2 ring and 2 solid C.E. pellets; 4 solid RDX/Beeswax pellets
- Secondary: 2 ring and 2 solid large RDX/ Beeswax pellets (placed in a special exploder tube into which the standard exploder container fits).

https://bulletpicker.com/bomb_-12000...-1-tallbo.html


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