Talk:SC1000 bomb

Filling
The description of "The bomb was usually filled with a mixture of 40% amatol and 60% TNT" is unlikely. Amatol is a mixture of ammonium nitrate and TNT, usually 40%/60% respectively, and I suspect that's what this should say, but I don't have access to the reference source. JohnGDallman (talk) 17:35, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Coventry
So one turned up in Coventry, anyone want to edit it in? --DJ Smiley (talk) 17:41, 23 September 2015 (UTC) Source: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/wwii-bomb-car-windscreens-only-10119789

Defusing
Why did this bomb have a thing at the side through which it was possible to extract the fuse? Wouldn't it have made more sense for the Germans to make defusing hard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.81.0 (talk) 15:09, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Not really. It was designed to explode on impact.  It is very useful if your military are handling a lot of bombs, to be able to defuse them easily, and better still to not insert the fuse until shortly before use.  the situation with mines (both land and sea) might have been different.   All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:06, 23 May 2015 (UTC).


 * But see SC250 bomb for the description of the booby trapped "Y" fuse. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:09, 23 May 2015 (UTC).