That locking ring and the bit of circuit ribbon looks like a 960 tail fuze, if it was live it should have an arming spindle through the middle of the plate. So my money is on it being a concrete filled hammer

Just wanted to give a bit of clarification to the OP. Obviously I'm not going to go into too much detail on a public forum, but some of you may come across something similar in the future so I though I'd better mention that...

There are 4 types of fuses, and 3 types of bomb. Fuses come in Operational (aka earshot), practice, drill and mass representative.

Operational and practice contain explosives- drill and mass representative don't.

There are reasons why practice fuses are fitted to bombs that have been dropped on ops- but DO NOT assume because you see the word practice that the bomb/fuse is inert- because it probably isn't.

As a poster has indicated, that's the back end of a 960 fuze (standard fit to RAF bombs of that type) with the head sheared off- as it's designed to do. It could still be functional, and you should treat it as so.

Call in the EOD teams and let them do what it is they're paid to do.

[QUOTE=chrisg46;3962029]I strongly suspect we have done the same in early telic days. If I recall correctly I believe the story goes that an fac called in a strike on a troublesome position. Harrier drops lump of concrete aka training bomb on said position but misses. Pilot asks for bda, fac response was "nice but next time can we have one that goes bang please?"QUOTE]



Were inert bombs being used to take out surface buildings during the build up to Telic. A direct hit would destroy the building whilst delivering very little damage to surrounding buildings and no blast damage.



Q.

Originally Posted by kevster

Just wanted to give a bit of clarification to the OP. Obviously I'm not going to go into too much detail on a public forum, but some of you may come across something similar in the future so I though I'd better mention that...

There are 4 types of fuses, and 3 types of bomb. Fuses come in Operational (aka earshot), practice, drill and mass representative.

Operational and practice contain explosives- drill and mass representative don't.

There are reasons why practice fuses are fitted to bombs that have been dropped on ops- but DO NOT assume because you see the word practice that the bomb/fuse is inert- because it probably isn't.

As a poster has indicated, that's the back end of a 960 fuze (standard fit to RAF bombs of that type) with the head sheared off- as it's designed to do. It could still be functional, and you should treat it as so.

Call in the EOD teams and let them do what it is they're paid to do.

Thanks for all the precise information, chums - it all matches up with certain "Int" we obtained last night through other channels. We have not taken any positive EOD action (um....<cough> we ARE the EOD team on the ground, but unable to access the usual instant channels of info), as it just seemed wrong that the word "Practice" meant it was safe to remove. Age and wrinkled cynicism triumphs once again over youthful exuberance!
Cheers,
Staakers

Originally Posted by looney

Staaken, Be careful. If the RAF dropped it, its probably the wrong type of munition for it's intended purpose/target, it's definitely been dropped out of area but maybe just another lost practice. Don't forget some shady armourer loaded it, whack the fecker where it lies.
Regards....

I was going to suggest the same. If in doubt smeg the bastard in situ.

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Originally Posted by looney

Staaken, Be careful. If the RAF dropped it, its probably the wrong type of munition for it's intended purpose/target, it's definitely been dropped out of area but maybe just another lost practice. Don't forget some shady armourer loaded it, whack the fecker where it lies.
Regards....

I was going to suggest the same. If in doubt smeg the bastard in situ.

It's in his back garden.

Originally Posted by re-stilly

I was going to suggest the same. If in doubt smeg the bastard in situ.

That's the plan! Thanks again everyone. Loon! You are where, what - LOCSTAT?
Staakers

Originally Posted by Cutaway

It's in his back garden.

landscaping courtesy of PE4 and Shrike

Originally Posted by re-stilly

landscaping courtesy of PE4 and Shrike

You couldn't pop round to Tropper's gaff, could you? We'd be awfully grateful.

Staakers, working for BAC*** at the moment, not much to report to you on that one as work is pretty slack.
A lot more work coming soon in Libya by the look of things, I hope our old Libyan team got stuck in there giving the colonel
what he deserved.
Regards.
P.