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English: Little Boy - atomic bomb (Hiroshima) - schematic view of the inside (with labels). I didn't put text in this schema to ease translation to other wikis.
1. Stabilizing Fins
2. Tail cone
3. Air inlet tubes
4. Air pressure detonator
5. Lead Shield container
6. Detonator arm
7. Detonating head
8. Conventional Explosive Charge (cordite)
9. Uranium-235 "Bullet" (ca. 24 kg, 16 cm long, 10 cm diameter)
10. gun cylinder (not drawn to proportion: it was 180 cm long, with an inner diameter of 10 cm)
11. Uranium-235 "Target" (ca. 36 kg) with receptacle (neutron reflector is just above)
12. Archie radar altimeter antenna (4xAPS-13)
13. Fuses (inserted to arm bomb just before dropping it)
Deutsch: Schema der Atombbombe von Hiroshima (Little Boy)
1. Stabilisierungsflossen
2. Heckkegel
3. Lufteinlassröhren
4. Luftdruckzünder
5. Bleiabschirmung
6. Zünderanschluß
7. Zündkopf
8. Konventionelle Sprengladung (Kordit)
9. U-235 "Kugel"
10. Schußkanal
11. U-235 "Ziel" mit Aussparung (neutronenreflektor genau darüber)
12. Fernüberwachungssonden
13. Zünder (wurden kurz vor Abwurf eingebaut um die Bombe scharf zu schalten)
Source Done with Inkscape 0.41 from the few info available on the web (the original blueprint would have been useful !). This is not supposed to be accurate but it gives a rough idea of the main parts of the gun-type model.
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