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Barrage Ballon Cable Cutter Cartridge

Currency:CAD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:5.00 CAD
Barrage Ballon Cable Cutter Cartridge
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Barrage Ballon Cable Cutter Cartridge - The principle of the cable cutting experiments was to ensure that the flying cable was such that it made a angle of 45 degrees with the horizon. From the balloon a single cable was dangled vertically down with drogue parachutes attached and warning flags. The aircraft would deliberately fly into the cable and attempt to cut the cable using various methods such as hardened leading edges to the wing. It was eventually found that a small cable cutting chisel fired by an explosive bolt was the answer. As the wing hit the cable the aircraft slewed around and the cable would slide along the leading edge of the wing and enter a small notch in the wing. This would detonate a cartridge that would fire a hardened chisel and sever the cable in two. The pilot then was able to recover his aircraft from any stall. When the cable is impacted by an aircraft it breaks away from the main flying cable, the parachutes deploy and the resulting drag cause the aircraft to stall and the lower balloon will continue to be dragged over the wing by the upper, larger parachute and on contact the bomb attached to the lower parachute will strike the wing, explode and the plane will then crash.