Looking for a reference on British air-to-ground weapons...

[pyro-manic]

I have read a number of books in the last couple of years which talk about post-war UK aircraft development (Secret Projects, TSR.2, Hawker P.1216 etc), and one thing I cannot seem to find is a good guide to the weapons used by these projected and actual service aircraft. The "Lost Tomorrows of an Eagle" book on the TSR.2 by Paul Lucas talks about a variety of unguided bombs of various types that I have not seen any other material on, and that I cannot find anything about online. The BSP4 book has a decent section on missiles including Martel, Sea Eagle etc, but I am struggling to find anything useful on - in particular - general-purpose bombs, unguided rockets and to a lesser extent nuclear weapons. Can anyone recommend a good website or book that covers these?


Thanks in advance,

Alun. 

[Hobbes]

Are you looking for in-service weapons or projects?

[pyro-manic]

In-service mostly. For example, the Lucas TSR.2 book talks about several different conventional bombs, which were already in service in the early '60s. Mk6, 9, 10, 11, 12, Type N1, etc. fitted with several different tail assemblies are referred to, with a bit of description and a couple of photos. Is there a reference or even just a list describing what all the various marks were/are? Drawings and dimensions would be very useful.

[Gondor]

Yes there is such a book, I have even read it. I got it through the local library and copied most of it into my pc. Unfortunately it was my older pc which is in bits at the moment and no fixed date for getting it back together. 

Gondor

[pyro-manic]

Would you happen to recall the name and/or author of the book?

[Mr.Creak]

This one is pretty good:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Illustrated-Encyclopaedia-Aircraft-Armament/dp/086101314X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406997991&sr=8-1&keywords=aircraft+armament
From machine guns for helicopters, through rocket pods, bombs, to air-air and air-ground missiles.
There's also this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Encyclopaedia-Modern-Aircraft-Armament-Christopher/dp/0850598621/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1406997991&sr=8-4&keywords=aircraft+armament
But I haven't read it. (The first one I've owned for years and still use it for reference).

There's also more "specialised" ones, Yefim Gordon's Soviet/ Russian Aircraft Weapons (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soviet-Russian-Aircraft-Weapons-Since/dp/1857801881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406998239&sr=8-1&keywords=aircraft+weapons+yefim+gordon) or German Air Dropped Weapons to 1945 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/German-Air-dropped-Weapons-Wolfgang-Fleischer/dp/1857801741/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406998319&sr=8-1&keywords=german+air+dropped+weapons).

[Gondor]

Would you happen to recall the name and/or author of the book?

Unfortunately no or I would have posted that info 

I do recall wanting the book for information on Air dropped Depth Charges and the like though. The book did have information all the way from the first bombs used during WWI such as the Cooper bomb up to modern weaponry.

Gondor

[Thorvic]

Whilst we have a variety (of various quality  ) of British 1000 lbs GP bombs, i don't recall any kits with the smaller but similar 500 lbs bombs. Its not one that shows up often in armament references but i have seen photos of Phantoms with a mix of both weights of bombs on a TER.

Regarding the 1000 lb bombs i was somewhat surprised to discover that the spate of retooled Airfix kits, only the Canberra Bi8 had conventional bombs, neither of the new Harriers had them nor the additional Buccaneer sprues, its either LGBs or SNEB rocket pods !