Original Item: Only One Available. Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Though colloquially often known as bombs, they are not explosives but in fact are designed to slow the process of chemical reactions and use ignition rather than detonation to start or maintain the reaction. Napalm for example, is petroleum especially thickened with certain chemicals into a 'gel' to slow, but not stop, combustion, releasing energy over a longer time than an explosive device. In the case of napalm, the gel adheres to surfaces and resists suppression.

This example is totally inert and unable to be used as an explosive device. There is no explosive content inside the bomblet and cannot be rendered live again. Not Available For Export.

This AN-M50A3 is an air to surface munition, hexagonal in cross section with a hollow magnesium body that contains incendiary charge. The nose end is closed with solid iron so that it falls nose downward and penetrates a target without crumpling. Three vent holes in the body permit combustion products from the filling vent without bursting the body. The major components of the bomb are body, filler, safety plunger, fin assembly, tail plunger, iron nose, holder and firing assemblies. The tail fin assembly has retractable fins in a hollow steel fin body. The fins extend through longitudinal slots in the fin body and can be retracted by pressing a spring-loaded tail plunger at the rear of the bomb. Upon release from the cluster, the tail fins are extended by springs and the safety plunger is forced outward arming the bomb. The bomb explodes upon impact as inertia causes the firing pin to strike the primer. The primer ignites the first fire mix, which ignites the filling, which ignites the magnesium body and releases the filling.

This example is in great condition and still retains faint original markings on the body. There is surface rust present on the metal parts of the bomblet with the tail fin section retaining much of the original OD green paint. The fins are still able to retract but need help going back into position, but they are undamaged.

This is truly a wonderful example of the seldom seen M50 incendiary bomblet! Comes more than ready for further research and display.