At the time, trainees were required to drop 20 practice bombs each per month, and students normally dropped as many as 200.
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Some of these practice bombs being powerful enough to leave a 3 foot wide by 3 foot deep crater on the island.
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To fulfill the land attack mission, the UAV is equipped with a hardpoint at the belly, armed with a small practice bomb.
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Active-duty servicemen and Air National Guardsmen from several states use the 2, 400-acre Warren Grove range, dropping thousands of practice bombs a year.
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Carroll said military officials had ruled out pilot error, but were still trying to figure out why the practice bomb fell off target.
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Munitions used were primarily M38A2 100-pound Practice Bombs ( about 14 pounds without sand ), with M1A1 Spotting Charges in the tailfin box.
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The trainees would drop bombs ranging in size from 15 lb practice bombs to 2000 lb demolition bombs containing 2 tons of high explosives.
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No one was injured when the practice bomb slammed into the ground in an open field near the Yuasa Corp . plant south of Sumter.
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In trainer form, the Master was equipped to carry eight practice bombs, plus one . 303 in Vickers machine gun mounted in the front fuselage.
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The training program was again extended to 24 weeks in October 1944, but this led to problems with the availability of the M-38A2 practice bombs.
