19-pound (8.6 kg) Flashbombs are loaded into a photo-reconnaissance De Havilland Mosquito at Melsbroek, Belgium. c.1944A photoflash bomb detonates over La Spezia during an air-raid on the night of 13-14 April 1943. It has illuminated the town's dockyard and a berthed battleship (marked with an 'A'). The silhouette of one of the attacking Avro Lancaster bombers can be seen
A photoflash bomb, or flash bomb, is explosive ordnance dropped by aircraft, usually military surveillance aircraft, designed to detonate above ground to create an extremely bright flash of light. These bombs, which are capable of producing light at an intensity of up to hundreds of millions of candlepower,[1] assist surveillance aircraft in taking nighttime aerial photos without the need to fly low to the ground which would make them vulnerable to possible enemy detection.[2] Due to the advent of better nighttime optics, satellite imagery, and stealth aircraft, these bombs are no longer used by the military.[citation needed]
^"Photoflash bombs". OP 1664, US Explosive Ordnance. Bureau of Ordnance. 1947. pp. 262–264.
^"M46 Photoflash Bomb". Carpetbagger Museum. Archived from the original on 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
A photoflashbomb, or flash bomb, is explosive ordnance dropped by aircraft, usually military surveillance aircraft, designed to detonate above ground...
accessory lamps. Only a few artificial light sources, such as military photoflashbombs, have the very high candlepower ratings characteristic of narrow-beamed...
equipment. Eleven cameras could be carried, along with ten photoflashbombs and supplementary photoflash cartridges for night photography. WB-47E Weather reconnaissance...
Operational Test Center." Tests of M-112 and M-123 photoflash cartridges, as well as a 165-pound photoflashbomb were conducted over Eglin ranges using Republic...
that had no bombing capability. Large cameras were mounted in the plane's belly and a truncated bomb bay was used for carrying photoflashbombs. Later versions...
variety of oblique and vertical cameras could be fitted in the bomb bay. Photoflashbombs could be carried for night photography missions. The AJ-2 incorporated...
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navigator, sat side by side. A single passenger could ride in the aircraft's bomb bay when necessary. The Mosquito FB Mk. VI was often flown in special raids...
Other missions included disruption of enemy sea channels; dropping photoflashbombs and propaganda pamphlets. Both squadrons were reassigned to Long Airfield...
Other missions included disruption of enemy sea channels; dropping photoflashbombs and propaganda pamphlets. Both squadrons were reassigned to Darwin...
Goose Island with the RB-52C Stratofortress. M120 photoflashbombs were used, and possibly practice bombs. Small-calibre machine gun rounds may have been...
end, Khabarov assembled a device using the casing of a Soviet Luch-M photoflash which he claimed could successfully erase the subject's short-term memory...
poor lighting. Lacking a physical shutter, some have a long shutter lag. Photoflash by the typical internal LED source illuminates less intensely over a much...
target area till the bomb aimer called "bombs gone", then hold his line of flight another several seconds for the automatic photoflash and the aiming point...
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