The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
British Steel-cased aerial bomb with four thin sheet metal fins mounted on a wooden tail. The bomb is fitted with a metal protective nose cap over a Cooper fuse. The bomb retains its original dark tan paint finish.
This bomb was used extensively by the Royal Flying Corps and Australian Flying Corps during the First World War.
Cooper 20 pound aerial bomb. The bomb is made from steel and has four tail fins. The nose cone has a No 7 T fuze attached. A removable nose cone cover is screwed onto the nose. The bomb is painted bro
Aerial bomb, with steel, pear shaped body, to which is fitted a flanged aluminium holder for the tail fins and vanes which rotate to activate a fuzing mechanism. The bomb has been sectioned to reveal
Steel cased aerial bomb, with four sheet metal fins. The bomb is painted dull brown. One of the most common British aerial bombs of the First World War.
A 250 pound SAP (Semi Armour-Piercing) Mark V aerial bomb. The body of the bomb is a streamlined, steel casting or forging with a tail adapter screwed into the rear of the bomb case to hold the explod
Japanese, 60 kilogram incendiary bomb. The main casing is bullet shaped with a double row of 20mm raised rivett heads extending around the diameter of the steel casing at the nose end. The fuze mech
Dark green aerial bomb complete with tail fin assembly.Tail No 13 Mk 1 (Australian) with tail cylinder attached to the ends of the vanes. This Lancaster 1000 pound bomb was the type that was used ex
