Description
Gray overall with a red band around nose. "50K" and the smoke symbol 
are stenciled in white on the body.
A steel nose piece is held by three screws to be a steel sealing plate. The nose piece houses a charge of picric acid. The sealing plate is welded to a tubular steel body by a continuous circumferential weld. A burster tube containing picric acid threads into the sealing plate. A tail cone is welded to the after end of the body.
Four steel fins are welded to the tail cone and are braced by a single row of box-type struts.
Hazardous Components
FS Smoke analyzed to be chlorosulfonic acid, 41 percent, and sulphur trioxide, 54 percent, sulphuric acid, 5 percent.
Chemical filling (51 lbs, 23.2 kg). High explosive filling (6 lbs, 2.7 kg).
See Also
General Information, Japanese Army Bombs
Nose, A-2(a), Type 93 Instantaneous
Nose, A-2(b), Type 12 Year Instantaneous
Nose, A-2(c), Type 99 Instantaneous - Short Delay
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