angrysoldier
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- under your bed
aircraft practice bomb with a smoke charge. not sure why it would have a radation sticker on it. call the military to pick it up, its a live one and dont mess with it.
What the heck is this thing?
- Thread starter Sardaukar
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trapandhunt
Regular
- Location
- the rock (nl)
ya you really should get that checked out radiation in your house is not a good plan. cool lookin find though
- Location
- Smithers, B.C.
Please, take all the other suggestions, and call the DND or your local military forces base. Worst comes, call the RCMP boys and they can connect you with whoever you need to speak with. Just call it "abandoned munitions" and not "a bomb". 
Take lots of pictures, that is a very neat find!
Take lots of pictures, that is a very neat find!
Wjjhat is it?
This is a WW2 practice bomb that was used to train bomb aimers and pilots. There are various sizes. The 2 1/2 pound bombs were usually painted White, but this one seems larger. I once bought an original box with 6 of the 2 1/2 pound bombs at an Auction. The "SSE-44" is probably the maker, 1944 date.
The radioactive sticker on it is not original. I would surmise that someone put it on it quite a while ago as a joke or conversation piece. Someone's own idea of owning an Atomic Bomb.
How it got into the woods is going to be almost unanswerable. There were many open areas out west where the Commonwealth Air Training Plan bases were located that were used as bombing ranges. There were even anchored targets in the Great Lakes, the St. Laurence, and other places along with armoured ships that towed moving targets in the water.
The cotter pin should hold in the striking mechanism. It is a simple rod, and if you pull the cotter pin, it should be able to be withdrawn easily. If it was loaded with the smoke cartridge, the smoke and blast is discharged from the hollow tube at the tail, so if you work on it, keep the tail end away from you as a precaution just in case.
If you call the Police or Military, they take the view that it is THEIR property, and will keep it.
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This is a WW2 practice bomb that was used to train bomb aimers and pilots. There are various sizes. The 2 1/2 pound bombs were usually painted White, but this one seems larger. I once bought an original box with 6 of the 2 1/2 pound bombs at an Auction. The "SSE-44" is probably the maker, 1944 date.
The radioactive sticker on it is not original. I would surmise that someone put it on it quite a while ago as a joke or conversation piece. Someone's own idea of owning an Atomic Bomb.
How it got into the woods is going to be almost unanswerable. There were many open areas out west where the Commonwealth Air Training Plan bases were located that were used as bombing ranges. There were even anchored targets in the Great Lakes, the St. Laurence, and other places along with armoured ships that towed moving targets in the water.
The cotter pin should hold in the striking mechanism. It is a simple rod, and if you pull the cotter pin, it should be able to be withdrawn easily. If it was loaded with the smoke cartridge, the smoke and blast is discharged from the hollow tube at the tail, so if you work on it, keep the tail end away from you as a precaution just in case.
If you call the Police or Military, they take the view that it is THEIR property, and will keep it.
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07blackwater
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Port Coquitlam, BC
There's a thread about these bombs at British Ordnance Collectors Network.
h p://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/73449-Aircraft-Practice-Bomb-11.5lb-Mark-1
There's pics but you have to join to see them.
Try there.
h p://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/73449-Aircraft-Practice-Bomb-11.5lb-Mark-1
There's pics but you have to join to see them.
Try there.
It is a practice bomb. It unscrews to come apart. Usualy, a smoke flare is inserted and a blow to the brass tip on the front drives a firing pin into the end of the flare and smoke.pours.out of the tail so the point where it landed is visible from the air. The pins are pulled before flight, so unlikely that this one fell from the sky.
It might be radioactive due to luminous paint, or it might be due to something nasty inside, who knows?.
Growing up a a kid in England, we were taught at school show and tell syle what an unexploded bomb might look like. We were taught never to touch anything that we found because if it was unexplodedi it could go off if disturbed.
Dont #### with it, get it out of the house. Blue means.inert so unlikely that it will go bang. The sticker is the worrying thing, good idea not to sit on your lap, parts of you might start glowing in the dark.
Ive seen the completely inert ones sell.for.around $100.
It might be radioactive due to luminous paint, or it might be due to something nasty inside, who knows?.
Growing up a a kid in England, we were taught at school show and tell syle what an unexploded bomb might look like. We were taught never to touch anything that we found because if it was unexplodedi it could go off if disturbed.
Dont #### with it, get it out of the house. Blue means.inert so unlikely that it will go bang. The sticker is the worrying thing, good idea not to sit on your lap, parts of you might start glowing in the dark.
Ive seen the completely inert ones sell.for.around $100.
Buffdog and Sunray are correct. It's WW2 practice. It's empty. It's nothing. Look through the tail fin and see. Someone put it in the bush because they were didn't know where else to put it. Or they had stolen it. The sticker came off something else. Be careful, the sky is falling!
I'm unable to read the second word on the label
It says "Attention materiel radioactive".
Yes, the phrase's construction seems French but:
In French "matériel" is masculine and so the adjective should be "radioactif."
But then the sign could have been designed by a civil servant from Ottawa. They're (almost) always mixing their genders (names f. or m. and the adjective used being the opposite.)
Attention trafic locale seulement. (it should be "local".)
It says "Attention materiel radioactive".
Yes, the phrase's construction seems French but:
In French "matériel" is masculine and so the adjective should be "radioactif."
But then the sign could have been designed by a civil servant from Ottawa. They're (almost) always mixing their genders (names f. or m. and the adjective used being the opposite.)
Attention trafic locale seulement. (it should be "local".)
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
However these practice bombs uses the equivalent of a king sized shotgun shell to discharge smoke from the tail to indicate to the pilot where the bomb landed. That is the dangerous bit. If the round has fired, then the rest is inert.
If that fell out of a box it would get the Posties jumping!! I wouldn't want to have my address on it after they changed their shorts though.
Hehe, that's true, but in this case it says 'Matière radioactive', 'radioactive matter', and 'Matière' is feminine. So this time they got it right.
I'm starting to think those stickers were indeed put there at a later date. I'll have to ask my friend exactly where he found it.
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Actually, from what I could see, it says "Attention matière radioactive", which would be correct in French. If you don't have access to a Geiger counter, if you know someone that still has a darkroom (yeah, I'm old, and those things are rarer than hen's teeth now), you could place it in a totally dark area, and sit it on a piece of photo paper. When you develop the paper, if there is black on it, you have radiation. Not an accurate way to do it, but... The same can be done with a piece of X-ray or view camera film.
browning nb
Regular
- Location
- Riverview nb canada
Thats funny,, Taken it to your local university might not be a great idea.
