BOMBY POLSKIE I NIEMIECKIE

Download Mirage Hobby PDF cataloguePolish military aviation in the period 1919-1939 used quite a large number of types of aerial bombs, two of which are worth mentioning, weighing 50 and 100 kilograms. The first one, the destroying air bomb wz.29, weighing 50 kg. was developed in Starachowickie Zakłady Górniczo-Hutnicze in Starachowice, shortly before the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1929. It was characterized by a drop-shaped cross-section with a fin at the end. The explosives used were mainly TNT or picric acid. It was suspended in a horizontal position. It is worth adding that the improved version of this bomb was called wz.32. The second bomb in turn was also a 100-kilogram high-explosive air bomb, also constructed at Starachowice Zakłady Górniczo-Hutnicze in Starachowice by lieutenant colonel-engineer Apolinary Żebrowski - later a veteran of the September 1939 campaign. The wz.31 bomb had a drop-shaped body and was made of steel sheet. The explosive - as in the wz.29 bombs - was TNT or picric acid. It is worth adding that the wz.31 bomb was often painted gray.