Eduard Brassin SD2 Cluster Bomb. 1/32

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The Butterfly Bomb (or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2) was a German 2-kilogram (4.4 lb) anti-personnel submunition (or bomblet) used by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
It was so named because the thin cylindrical metal outer shell which
hinged open when the bomblet deployed gave it the superficial appearance
of a large butterfly.^[1]
The design was very distinctive and easy to recognise. SD 2 bomblets
were not dropped individually, but were packed into containers holding
between 6 and 108 submunitions e.g. the AB 23 SD 2 and AB 250-3
submunition dispensers. The SD 2 submunitions were released after the
container was released from the aircraft and had burst open. Because SD
2s were always dropped in groups (never individually) the discovery of
one unexploded SD 2 was a reliable indication that others had been
dropped nearby. This bomb type was one of the first cluster bombs
ever used in combat and it proved to be a highly effective weapon. The
bomb containers that carried the SD 2 bomblets and released them in the
air were nicknamed the "Devil's Eggs" by Luftwaffe air and ground crew