Lazy Dog (bomb)

They contained no explosive charge but when dropped from very high altitude or from a fast flying aircraft they may have a lot of kinetic energy[2] making them lethal and potentially able to penetrate soft cover such as jungle canopy, several inches of sand, or light armor.

Lazy Dog anti-personnel missiles were designed to spray enemy troops with small projectiles with three times the force of standard air-burst bombs.

[5] Experimental Lazy Dog projectiles of various shapes and sizes were tested at Air Proving Ground, Eglin AFB, Florida, in late 1951 and early 1952.

Shape 5, an improved basic Lazy Dog slug, had the force of a ".50 calibre bullet" and could penetrate 24 inches (61 cm) of packed sand.

[5] The US Air Force Armament Laboratory spent 90 days in Japan establishing local manufacture of the Lazy Dog weapons and training crew members in their use.

They could be hurled from buckets, dropped by hand, thrown in their small paper shipping bags, or placed in a Mark 44 cluster adaptor—a simple hinged casing with bins built in to hold the projectiles, opened by a mechanical time delay fuze.

[citation needed] Depending on how they were released into the air, each "Lazy Dog" projectile could have a significant amount of kinetic energy.