Hi Jim and list,
I think these things were called "Yellow Dog Bombs". I always wondered how
they were used. A surplus dealer in Chicago had
them in their catalog, along with lot of other strange but useful
stuff. The company used to be called "JerryCo" and their catalog was a
real hoot to browse through but they would come up with things like a
norden bomb sight. I think they are called American Scientific, or
something like that.
Jim (KB4IVH)
MVPA #17216
At 22:27 09/28/2001 -0700, Jim Newton wrote:
>Hi List...
>
>Today I was happily driving my deuce around town gathering parts for
>our entry in this season's BattleBots competition (our robot is called
>"Tracula" and is a tracked heavyweight with an electromagnetic coil
>gun which will fire tethered projectiles as rams into other robots at
>about 3,000 Joules, about the same as a 7.62mm round...there's a
>sketch at www.Tracula.com).
>
>Anyway, at one of my stops, I told the owner I was looking for
>hardened steel tips for on the iron projectiles in the coil gun (all
>the better to puncture robot armor). He told me to stay put and that
>he had just the thing. He came back and gave me a handful of these
>items that look like little bombs with fins on the back.
>
>The bodies are unfinished solid hardened steel and the fins are
>stamped and folded mild sheet steel, and spot welded to the bottom of
>the body. They are about 1 13/16" long and 0.5" wide at the fins, and
>the diameter of the body at its widest point is 7/16" which is about
>the same as a 44 slug. They weigh 0.6 oz, or 18 grams.
>
>Here is a page with some pictures of one of these objects:
>
> http://www.Tracula.com/ram_tips.html
>
>The guy at the place "that I did NOT get them from" said that they got
>several big barrels of these in the 70s from the military and were
>instructed to destroy them for scrap. For some reason they kept them,
>but they aren't supposed to sell them (which is why the guy that owns
>the place told me to just put them in my pocket and shut up). He said
>these were supposedly dropped by the crate-full from bombers in the
>Vietnam war, and would come down pointy end first at terminal velocity
>guided by the fins and ram into anything it hit and do damage similar
>to a rifle round...people, vehicles, facilities, whatever.
>
>What the hell are these things?
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>
>Jim "Ike" Newton
>
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>
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