Britain’s Most Awkward Weapon Why the Home Guard Built the Blacker Bombar
Автор: Covert Arsenal
Загружено: 2026-02-10
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A crude steel post, bolted to a heavy mount, stands over a concrete pedestal at a quiet English road junction. Around it lie fat finned bombs, more like small depth charges than shells, designed to be lowered over the post and hurled in a slow, arcing path toward any vehicle that dares approach. This was not a sleek gun for armoured divisions, but a last-ditch device for static roadblocks and field gateways.
In 1940–41, Britain had lost too many conventional anti-tank guns and prioritised the survivors for mobile units. The Home Guard, tasked with holding key ground against a possible German landing, faced that threat with rifles, improvised explosives, and hope. The Blacker Bombard was the emergency answer: a weapon that could be built quickly, using dispersed workshops and limited high-grade steel, then planted on pedestals along stop lines, bridges, and airfields.
This film examines how its 29mm spigot, tail-tube bombs and heavy mounts actually worked, why crews were trained to fight at extremely short ranges, and how the system’s limitations, safety issues, and logistics shaped its brief service life—while still influencing later spigot-based weapons.
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