IJA Bombs

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Brady
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IJA Bombs

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Post by Brady » 08 Apr 2021, 04:09

What did the IJA use against Sub's I just went through TME 1985 on Japanese explosive ordnance and it does list any special bombs or depth charges the IJA used from it's aircraft angst subs ?

Also it does not list any IJA bomb over 500 kg, but it does refer to them in the Fuses section, noting a 1000 KG bomb ?

Also apart from a 100 kg AP bomb, it does not list any IJA bomb types at the start of the war that were for use against ships ?

No IJA, AP or SAP bombs at wars start ?

Edit- Sea Mines, did the IJA deploy air dropped sea mines ?


As always thanks for any help in this mater.

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Re: IJA Bombs

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Post by Brady » 26 Apr 2021, 22:23

Punt


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Re: IJA Bombs

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Post by Rob Stuart » 27 Apr 2021, 00:03

If you are looking for info on Japanese depth charges and anti-ship bombs, you'd be better off looking for IJN ordnance. Have you seen the info available at https://pacificwararchive.wordpress.com ... 1945-1946/?

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Re: IJA Bombs

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Post by Brady » 27 Apr 2021, 02:08

Well that’s kind of the point, I’m interested in, specifically in this case, what the IJA had, and apart from the one Type 100 100kg AP bomb there appears to be nothing that is AP or SAP till late war, apart from skipping bombs, I have references for IJA bombers using skip bombing as early as the DEI campaign, but they came out with bombs apparently about a year later that was specifically intended for this.

TME 1985 has proven in the past to be not entirely inclusive so I can’t be 100% certain that it covers all that the IJA had on offer.

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