Dinort staff

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The Dinort stick , also known as Dinort asparagus , is a device with the help of which aerial bombs can be detonated before they penetrate the ground. The Dinort baton was used by the German Air Force during the Second World War and is named after the pilot Oskar Dinort , who as a major was, among other things, commander of the Stuka squadron 2 .

Layout and function

The Dinort rod is an approx. 30–60 cm long rod that protrudes from the tip of a fragmentation or explosive bomb and carries a mushroom-shaped disk at its end. The bomb is detonated when the disk hits the ground. The rod itself is not a direct component of the percussion fuse , but merely serves to transmit the impact of the impact to the bomb as early as possible. Since the actual bomb body is still above the ground at the moment of the explosion, the fragmentation effect is increased, especially against infantry and other lightly armored targets. The effect is greatest when it hits the ground as vertically as possible .

history

As early as the First World War , smaller fragmentation bombs were sometimes provided with a wooden stick at the top. B. the German 4.5 kg bomb from Carbonit AG . The Luftwaffe resorted to this principle during World War II, when during the war against the Soviet Union the effectiveness of the German bombs was often impaired by the deep snow. The bomb was supposed to explode above the snow cover by the rod.

Dinort sticks were mainly used on small and medium-sized bombs such as the SD 50, SD 70, SD 250 and SD 500. The disadvantage was that, because of the stick at the top, the bombs could only be hung horizontally . B. the use of the (equipped with vertical magazines) Heinkel He 111 excluded.

A further development were rods that were pyrotechnically extended to a length of 2 to 3 meters after the bomb was dropped .

Similar distance fuses are still used today. An example is the American daisy cutter detonator .

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