Caption: "Fragmentation Bomb, M83, used by the military during the Vietnam War. The bomb was first introduced by the Germans in World War II and adopted by the It featured three types of fuzing systems and had the ability to be fired on impact, air burst delay, or antidisturbance. The olive drab bomb with black markings was commonly referred to as the Butterfly Bomb due to its distinctive arming vanes."

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