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Keywords: 330-PSA-29-65-2: Four Away..Two To Go! “Simplicity-Flexibility” are SNAKEYE’s main virtues according to design engineers and project pilots who developed the new weapon. Master Caption: The SNAKEYE bomb, designed for conventional low level attacks, has folding tailfin device which deploys as soon as the bomb is dropped. The deployed fins produce drag and slow the descent of the bomb, allowing the delivery plane time to clear the impact area and avoid fragmentation damage. The SNAKEYE bomb system was designed and developed at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, California. Photograph released February 18, 1965. (2015/11/10). 330-PSA-29-65-2: Four Away..Two To Go! “Simplicity-Flexibility” are SNAKEYE’s main virtues according to design engineers and project pilots who developed the new weapon. Master Caption: The SNAKEYE bomb, designed for conventional low level attacks, has folding tailfin device which deploys as soon as the bomb is dropped. The deployed fins produce drag and slow the descent of the bomb, allowing the delivery plane time to clear the impact area and avoid fragmentation damage. The SNAKEYE bomb system was designed and developed at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, California. Photograph released February 18, 1965. (2015/11/10).
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