ZAB-500-400 (zápalná puma)

The ZAB-500-400 incendiary aerial bomb was designed to set fire to industrial plants, warehouses, railway stations with rolling stock, urban and economic objects, and live enemy forces, as well as to create fires in the enemy rear for troop orientation.


Main technical data :


Burning temperature : 1600 - 1650 °C


Radius of the ignition mixture : 5000 - 7000 m²


Quantity of fires created : 300 - 600


Burning time in min. : 5



Source : Vsevojsk-51-37 Light security of ground troops in night combat, CSFA regulation, Prague 1987
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