Feb 252020
Old ordnance is not a specialty of mine, so I’m having trouble identifying a rather large aircraft-deliverable bomb. It appears in a number of late 1940’s aircraft diagrams, but none that I’ve seen have defined it. As you can see it bears considerable similarity in dimensions and tailfins to the M109 “Tallboy” bomb, but is notably thinner. At first I thought it might be simply a theoretical placeholder, but it appears in diagrams from at least two different aircraft manufacturers. Thoughts?
