Unusual stores and weapons ...

[TsrJoe]

German bomb with armour piercing nose extension ...

... a few others of posible interest too ...

http://groups.msn.com/TSR-2ResearchGroup/specialweaponsimagefile.msnw

[Spey_Phantom]

here's a bomb that would not oly scare the crap out of the enemy, it will also scare the crap in it 

[Excalibur]

here's a bomb that would not oly scare the crap out of the enemy, it will also scare the crap in it 

hasegawa did a special edition of a skyraider with this armament a few years back.

[Weaver]

Somebody PLEASE tell me the story behind that....

[Spey_Phantom]

Somebody PLEASE tell me the story behind that....

here's the story 
http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2006/09/15/USS-Midway-VA_2D00_25_2700_s-Toilet-Bomb_3A00_-Navy-Pilots-Have-More-Fun_2100_.aspx

[Weaver]

Cheers Nils - that's class! 

[nev]

Not a pound for air to ground!

[Spey_Phantom]

this was actually put on the Belgian Heli Meet at Bierset in 2005 as a hoax 

an AIM-9L equiped A-109BA 

[sotoolslinger]

AHHHHHH HA HA HA .ow ow ow . I had to go to PT, today laughing hurts

[Mossie]

On a similar line to Nils post, this was at Waddington Airshow, also in 2005, marked as a 'Chipmunk F.1'! 



One for the 'Trainers With Teeth' GB methinks!

[Mossie]

Some more, all exhibits at the Yorkshire Air Museum:

WE.177 Nuclear Bomb.  Much more ordinary looking than the Martel TV guided missile next to it & slightly smaller too.


Fairey Fireflash, Britians first guided missile, although it never went into full service because it was crap.  As it says on the RAF Museum website, "The missile had a strikingly unusual configuration that has yet to be repeated".  Good reason for that, it was crap!


Tallboy, WWII 12,000lb 'Earthquake' Bomb


Grand Slam, WWII 22,000lb 'Earthquake' Bomb, very like it's little brother the Tallboy, only much larger


Original 'Bouncing Bomb' Upkeep Mine, on display as part of the Barnes Wallis Collection at the museum.  The Tallboy & Grand Slam are part of that exhibition too, but too big to fit in that building.

[Spellbinder99]

Mossie, I remember seeing a big photo in the Mess at RAAF Edinburgh here in Adelaide back when I was a recruit of a NF Meteor carrying a couple of those Fireflash missiles under each wing. I assumed at the time they were taken at Woomera during testing but they certainly were an imposing sight under the Meatbox wings.

Cheers

Tony

[Mossie]

They were trialed pretty extensively & you can find pics of them on Swifts & the Meteor, like you mentioned Tony.  It was realised fairly early on that the Fireflash was not going to cut it, but several hundred had been produced before the decision was made, so it was decided to use it to gain missile experience until the DH Firestreak came along.  Most of these trials went on at RAF Valley.  Because many were produced but didn't see service, a lot of air museums up & down the country have one on display.

There's a nice period article here from Flight, with several pics:
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/articles/valley-n.html