Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s deputies and bomb squad detectives have removed an inactive cluster bomb that was delivered to an army-navy surplus store in Newhall on Wednesday.
Captain Roosevelt Johnson of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s station said the device was inert.
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s had responded to a call regarding the device around 12:30 p.m.
According the SCV Sheriff’s spokeswoman, “a customer had surrendered the device in the army-navy surplus store.” The owner of the store recognized the device and notified the Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s deputies evacuated the area as a precaution and proceeded to investigate. A Sheriff’s aero unit hovered at a safe distance overhead.
The bomb had markings indicating it was a BLU-49 A/B, which is a ring-tailed anti-personnel fragmentation bomblet that is dropped from an airplane.
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Check this out. That’s the model number on the side
Any updates om this?
Yellow means inert or training – if this was real it would be red or have red markings to indicate it’s live ordinance.
Blue is inert… Can not tell if it is still fused or not from that picture but that is one munition out of a cluster bomb
I am curious as to why a “veteran” who believed that this may have been a live bomb, as reported in the Signal, would take it to a store, instead of to, say, the wash where there is no chance of people getting killed or injured?