The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 brown and has a green and red band painted around the bomb casing. Markings - bomb casing - JC CO; 15.8.17. PAT 2 1/8/80/20. Markings - fuze - JC CO LTD 1917. Markings - nose cap - NO 7 T JC CO LTD 1917.
20 pound Cooper aerial bomb used operationally by the Royal Flying Corps during the later period of the First World War on the Western Front.
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 ta
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
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
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 300 pound (140 kilogram) Demolition-High Explosive (H.E.) type M31 aerial bomb. There is no nose fuze, or nose fuze hole cap inserted. The body is painted a pale olive-green with a 32 mm wide yellow
The Mk 82 Low Drag General Purpose (LDGP) 500 pound bomb is fitted with a Mk 15 Snakeye fin assembly and is an air dropped, free fall, aerodynamically streamlined, non guided weapon. The bomb casing i
