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It's the guidance system,
As someone said, probably the battery. If you look, the bomb actually starts back where the red fuzzy thing is behind the fins
What a lot of folks don't realize is the way bombs are built/stored
There the the ordance section of it - the long eliptical part. That is built, stored, and handled seperately than the rest
Then there is the fuse assemblies - there can be more than one, and they can be anything from proximity to delayed. In fact, there are fuse extenders to put the fuse 4-5 feet in front of the bomb, so it goes off in air. Then there is the tailfin assembly - These can be "normal", or "High drag" (slow down the fall of the bomb), and others
What you see in the front there is a laser guidance system - it just straps on a regular bomb.
The ordanance men make up what kind of bombs are needed, as they need them
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