A foursome of French anti-runway bombs, Matra Durandal, designated BLU-107 in American service, in 1:72 scale.
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Four resin castings of a weapon intended for destroying takeoff and landing runways. The US Air Force adopted it under its own numerical designation, so the set will serve for machines on both sides of the Atlantic.
Breaking a runway up with an ordinary bomb is wasteful. A crater does form, but the edges stay solid and the damage is patched quickly. Durandal therefore works differently. Once released it is slowed by a small parachute and tipped into a steep angle, whereupon a rocket motor ignites and drives it into the concrete. The charge explodes only below the surface and lifts the whole slab, so that a bulge forms which cannot simply be filled in. The weapon was used in anger against an enemy runway as early as the middle of the 1980s. An airfield without a usable runway is as worthless to an opponent as an airfield that has been destroyed, and a few hits in the right places are enough for that.
In one to seventy-two the bomb is only a few centimeters long and the parachute section is smaller still. Work over a light surface with a raised edge, so that a piece that breaks off does not get lost, and pick the parts up with tweezers with straight jaws. Change the blades in your cutter more often than you would expect. A blunt blade is more likely to crush a small casting than to cut it. Small pieces are held well in a clothespin wrapped with tape.
The contents are four bombs.
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