Reporter almost hit by dud bomb - GIF

[Altair]

Reporter almost hit by dud bomb.




Previously:

F-104 Starfighter nuclear bomb toss bombing technique - GIF
Vintage bomb-proof safe - photo
USAAF bombers dropping bombs over France - GIF
Soviet railway workers defuse German bomb - video
Bombs hitting the planes that dropped them - video
Jet bird strike + payload dump + explosion - video

[Frank S]

A real intelligent reporter wandering around in an open field which from the looks of him putting a finger in his ear he is trying to hear what is being said in his ear bud while the field is a combat zone with either a fire fight going on in the distance possibly a mortor or an artilery barrage as well, then a dud dropped from a plane probably targeting one of the buildings in the background misses target and lands within a few dozen feet of him. The thing is it may have only failed to detonate due to falling into the soft ground. These types of dumb bombs can still detonate later maybe seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even years later when disturbed.
He is so engrossed in his conversation he hardly even reacts to the thud it must have made upon striking the ground.

[greyhoundollie]

At 0:08 it appears as 2 items. That can be caused by the timing of the camera shutter in a still picture. Not sure if the motion camera would do the same thing. However, if it is 1 or 2 bombs they are very small.

Looks like 1 or more BDU33 practice bombs. I think they weigh about 25 or 30 pounds max, maybe even less than that. I haven't picked one up in 45 years. They don't explode. Although they sometimes have a marker charge in the tail that makes a puff of smoke when the bomb hits the ground so that "spotter"guys on the bombing range will see where it landed and determine its distance from the target etc. If the ground had been rained on recently the bomb often doesn't give a puff of smoke because the bomb just slips into the mud without setting off the marker charge.

If it hit you it could kill you since it is probably traveling about 100+ mph.