Thrift Store Find - U.S. Army Bomb on Display Stand! Target? Salesman Sample?

Saw this as soon as I entered my local thrift store - and was again happy I come early so I'm first in!
It is 30" tall (32" with base/stand), has U.S. Army stenciled on it and is Heavy!

I googled U.S. Army target bomb but none of the images looked like mine. (At first I thought it said a navy torpedo because of the curved fins, but I guess it could also help keep it straight going through the air?)
What do I have? A manufacturer sample? A display for a military or gun show?

The base is a big part of the weight but the bottom looks like aluminum or stainless steel - but it also has a very cool & expensive/technical look? Being for / from the same military that spent $500,000 on toilets - could it be a precious metal? (I know not likely, but fingers crossed!)

Whatever it is, it is going on the "coolest finds" list - next to the 1920's coin op hard boil egg laying hen!

PS - First photo was taken outside in the parking lot of the thrift store in sunlight to try to do a google image search, the rest in my front yard in the shade.

Thanks for any help!

 

Image search on my computer showed this one which kinda looks like ir but not the same - all the others shown are shorter & fatter at the head/top.
DVIDS - Images - Hardwood Air-to-Ground Weapons Range [Image 16 of 16] (dvidshub.net)

 

@springfld.arsenal

 

The blue paint means it was a practice piece, a demonstrator, or otherwise just for show. Never had anything explosive in it. Beyond that dunno.

 

With that stand/display maybe a trade show?

 

No idea. Maybe a gift for a commanding officer?

 

I watched a Storage Wars on tv and they were in the Fla. space coast near the Kennedy space station - they found a large mock up of a rocket that turned out to be model for the top administrators - maybe this is something like that?
Or a prototype since no one can find one like it (the curved fins are unique)?
Thanks for any information.

 

Nice find but I think the tail fins are too small to be an actuall munition, so just a replica? Would make a great lamp base.

 

At first I thought probably one of the M 80 series of US bombs, but looking carefully, there are no obvious joins where warhead or tail are fitted, or mounts to mount it on an aircraft. It is also slightly the wrong shape to be one of these too I think. Together with the already mentioned curved fins, this being a genuine piece of ordnance seems to me very unlikely.
Perhaps a presentation or display item, or even an old film prop?

I don't know that much about this type of ordnance, but I have amassed a few such items to display in my workshop, so have a slight interest. You could try asking here:

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/

The British Ordnance Collectors network.

It is a cool display item nevertheless!

 

Cool find. Looking at the general shape I thinking it might be a small scale display model for a type of lance missile. But I also can’t find something similar (the fins do seem unique/odd). So I have no idea

 

Thank you both - I will definitely check out link for help IDing it!

 

I isolated the image, but that fin configuration seems to be unique:

 

The fins are designed to impart spin (for stabilization during flight). The fins are smaller than the maximum diameter of the body, so to me, it looks like a tube fired rocket or mortar. I could not find something like it though after some searching.

 

NICE!

 

My first thought was it was a torpedo.