What is that for ?

[stmerry]

From aircraft bomb but what for ?

EDIT: Pictures are lost but kept thread for information below

[Gregory]

Looks like air pressure-powered during descent.

[stmerry]

Looks like air pressure-powered during descent.

Maybe but size is like a small rice bowl.

[Steindaddie]

It looks to me to be an anti-personnel submunition from a US made cluster bomb.

[Bob Hudson]

From: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/sys...ions/cbu-58.htm

 

 

The CBU-58 is loaded with 650 bomblets. These bomblets contain 5-gram titanium pellets, making them incendiary and useful against flammable targets. This cluster munition is optimized for soft skinned targets to include personnel and light skinned military vehicles. The dispenser holds 650 of the baseball sized bomblets to be dispersed over a wide target area.

 

The CBU-52, -58 and -71 all use SUU-30 dispensers, a metal cylinder divided longitudinally. One-half contains a strong back section that provides for forced ejection and sway-bracing. The two halves lock together. Four cast aluminum fins are attached at a 9~degree angle to the aft end of the dispenser and are canted 1.25 degrees to impart spin-stabilized flight. When released from the aircraft, the arming wire/lanyard initiates the fuze arming and delay cycle.

 

[Mr-X]

What you art looking at in post 1 is a BLU-26/B.

 

The BLU-26/B "Guava" was an air-dispensed APAM (anti-personnel/anti-material) fragmentation bomblet with 600 embedded steel fragments. The BLU-26/B had three different fuzing options. It could detonate immediately on impact, as an airburst 9 m (30 ft) above ground, or after a selectable but fixed time after impact. The externally identical BLU-36/B and BLU-59/B had random-delay fuzes.

 

The BLU-26/B was used as payload in the following cluster bombs:

 

CBU-23/B (BLU-26/B in SUU-31/B)

CBU-24/B (665 BLU-26/B or BLU-36/B in SUU-30/B)

CBU-24A/B (665 BLU-26/B or BLU-36/B in SUU-30A/B)

CBU-24B/B (665 BLU-26/B or BLU-36/B in SUU-30B/B)

CBU-24C/B (665 BLU-26/B or BLU-36/B in SUU-30C/B)

 

 

Data for BLU-26/B:

Diameter: 64 mm (2.5 in)

Weight: 435 g (0.95 lb)

Explosive: 85 g (0.19 lb) Cyclotol

 

BLU-26/B

 

BLU-26/Bs were delivered by the SUU-30 series Stores Release and Suspension Units.

 

SUU-30/B , A/B or C/B

[Mr-X]

Forum Support I would say that it is not a BLU-63/B APAM as that model has more rounded features than the BLU-26/B

 

BLU-63/B

[Mr-X]

In post 5 you have 1 complete CBU-26/B and half what coule be a BLU-24/C though I am not 100 percent on the latter.

 

Here is some info on the BLU-24 series.

 

BLU-24/B The BLU-24/B "Orange" was a small air-dispensed anti-personnel fragmentation bomblet. It was centrifugally armed (by the spin induced after release from the dispenser) and fired when the spin decayed below a certain threshold. When dropped over dense jungle arreas, this arming and firing sequence ensured that the bomblets would detonate between the forest canopy and the ground. The BLU-24/B had a spherical body with 300 embedded steel fragments, a shroud ring, and nine canted fins to induce a spin. On early BLU-24/Bs the fins extended below the shroud, but later examples had shorter fins. The BLU-24B/B variant had a grooved fragmentation body, which was covered by plastic to prevent adverse aerodynamic effects of the grooves. While the BLU-24/B and -24B/B bomblets were optimized for use in a jungle environment, the BLU-24C/B was a BLU-24B/B derivative for all-terrain use. The BLU-66( )/B series was a derivative of the BLU-24( )/B for delivery by high-speed aircraft.