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Create my profile now!INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a British BL755 anti-tank and runway cratering hollow charge training bomblet. The weapon was used by the Royal Air Force in the Falklands, Bosnia and both Gulf Wars. The BL 755 bomblet was developed by Hunting aircraft and entered service with the Royal Air Force in 1973. The BL 755 was a hollow charge sub-munition with the weapons container weighed 600 pounds. The container held 147 of these sub munitions. The sub-munitions consisted of a small high explosive anti-tank warhead with a stabilizing coronet that flipped out on ejection to ensure they were facing forward when they impacted. The trigger was mounted on a spring that extended forward after launch to ensure the bomb fired at the right range from the armour or concrete runway surface. This is an unfired BL 755 bomblet body complete with its hollow charge cone and alloy fin holding tail assembly. This is an army Explosive Ordnance Department training bomblet and is stencilled WAD/EOD/7 inside the copper colour hollow charge. The grey painted body is stencilled in white round the body EXERCISE under a monogram of A*-2. The top of the body has a 6mm red painted ring under the cone. The weapon was used by the Hawker Harrier G.R. 3, Jaguar G,R.1, Blackburn Buccaneer S.2 and the Phantom F.4. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 2061