Bomb Tail Fuze

Tail Fuzes AN-M100A2 and the other thirteen fuzes listed in Ref 51a, p 4-35 are vane-armed and inertia-fired. Arming is mechanically delayed by reduction gearing. When issued the fuzes are equipped with either a nondelay or a 0.025-sec delay primer-detonator M14, which can be 

When the fuzed bomb is dropped, the arming wire is retained in the bomb rack and withdrawn from the fuze. This frees 

When the arming stem has unscrewed itself from the firing plunger, arming is 

This spring is only strong enough to support the wt of the firing plunger. Upon impact, the plunger compresses the anticreep spring and is driven forward into the primer by inertia 

When the primer is struck by the firing pin, it flashes and sets off the delay element. After burning thru, the delay element sets off the relay which fires the detonator and the bomb (Ref 51a, pp 4-36 to 4-38) 

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Italian Bomb Tail Fuzes, Mechanical Impact,... 

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