Warbirds Resource Group - Luftwaffe Bomb Annex

(5) Electrical Impact Fuze

DATA:
Bombs Used In: H.E. Bombs.
Color: Aluminum or brass with white ring around charging head.
Material: Aluminum or brass.
Possible Actions: Instantaneous or short delay (less than 1 second).
Arming Times: N/A.
Principal Markings: El. A. Z. C50 (5)
Secondary Markings: Rh. S. G.
25 d

Rh. S. 1936
30 e

DESCRIPTION:
The circuit diagram of this fuze is the same as that of the (28). It employs two circuits, one of which charges from each plunger. The construction of the fuze is Type 1.

SAFETY SWITCHING:
Depression of the plain plunger B switches off the igniter bridges.
REMARKS:
Used during Spanish Civil War, obsolete by 1940.

All information for this entry were acquired from Army Technical manual TM 9-1985-2/Air Force Technical Order TO 39B-1A-9
GERMAN EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE (Bombs, Fuzes, Rockets, Land Mines, Grenades & Igniters)

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Updated October 19, 2002