Description
This flare is employed to illuminate an area for reconnoitering, bombing, or landing.
The Navy Flare Mk 10 Mod 0 has the same dimensions as the Mk 6 and Mods. The internal construction is similar to the Mk 5 and Mods, except that the Mk 10 Mod 0 has a metal suspension cup to which the suspension cable and pyrotechnic candle are fastened, and the Mk 5 and Mods has a wooden suspension base block.
Though this flare has a specified light intensity of 760,000 candlepower, tests have shown that it has a light intensity of 800,000 to 850.000 candlepower. In the future it may bo manufactured so as to have a light intensity of approximately 1,000,000 candlepower.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Source(s)
OP 1664, Volume 1 - US Explosive Ordnance (1947)
USNBD - Bombs and Fuzes, Pyrotechnics (1945)
