Description
This tank was developed to provide the Air Force with an interim spray tank capability for disseminating smoke, nontoxic, and toxic agents from high speed aircraft.
The basic configuration for the tank was the E74 fire bomb, 750-pound capacity, which is converted to a spray tank by use of the E12R3 Spray Tank conversion kit. The kit introduced an intake and outlet manifold along the horizontal center line of the fire bomb to cutaway ports on the nose and tail section. The intake manifold curved upward from the nose port to direct ram air against the upper surface of the spray tank, thereby distributing the pressure over the surface of the agent in the tank. The outlet manifold had three branched openings, which were positioned approximately one-inch from the bottom of the tank. The branches blended together at the horizontal center line, thus forcing the liquid agent through the single discharge orifice at the tail of the tank.
Upon successful detonation and destruction of both the nose and tail closure plates the tank functioned as a spray dispenser, utilizing ram-air principle.
Functioning
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Source(s)
Old Chemical Weapons and Related Materiel Reference Guide (2018)
