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The SC 500 ( Sprengbombe Cylindrisch) or ''cylindrical explosive bomb'' in English was a family of
They had three-piece drawn steel bodies with a heavy machined nose cap for armor penetration. At the other end was a base plate, just forward of which the magnesium alloy tail was tack welded onto the body, and also bolted to the tail attachment brace. The bomb was usually filled with a mixture of 40%
general-purpose bomb
A general-purpose bomb is an air-dropped bomb intended as a compromise between blast damage, penetration, and fragmentation in explosive effect. They are designed to be effective against enemy troops, vehicles, and buildings.
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s used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
Design
They had three-piece drawn steel bodies with a heavy machined nose cap for armor penetration. At the other end was a base plate, just forward of which the magnesium alloy tail was tack welded onto the body, and also bolted to the tail attachment brace. The bomb was usually filled with a mixture of 40% amatol
Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate. The British name originates from the words ammonium and toluene (the precursor of TNT). Similar mixtures (one part dinitronaphthalene and seven parts ammoniu ...
and 60% Trotyl, but when used as an anti-shipping bomb it was filled with '' Trialen 105'', a mixture of 15% hexogen, 70% Trotyl and 15% aluminium powder. Around the nose of the bomb was a ''kopfring'' - a metal ring, triangular in cross section, designed to prevent ground penetration or to stop forward momentum
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when hitting water. The bomb could also be fitted with a ''Stabo Spike'' which was an anti-ricochet device that prevented the bomb from burying itself too deep to increase its anti-personnel effectiveness. The bomb was attached to the aircraft horizontally by a H-type suspension lug. It could be horizontally suspended in a bomb bay or horizontally mounted on a wing or fuselage hardpoint
A hardpoint is an attachment location on a structural frame designed to transfer force and carry an external or internal load. The term is usually used to refer to the mounting points (more formally known as a weapon station or station) on the ...
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References
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