battlefield simulator 1

[smle2009]

Hi all,
turned up these simulators and looking for any info on them,the first is 'bottle'
shaped,plastic and came with storage tube(too far gone to save) with the attached label

Tony

 

[paul the grenade]

HI
TONY.
I REMEMBER DOING MY NBC TRAINING IN THE TA AND THESE WERE FIRED UP INTO THE AIR TO SIMULATE A CHEMICAL ATTACK. DROPLETS OF LIQUID WOULD RAIN DOWN ON TO YOU CHANGING THE COLOUR OF YOUR DETECTOR PAPER ON YOUR SUITS.
i DONT KNOW HOW THEY WERE LAUNCHED THOUGH.
CHEERS, PAUL.

 

[nitrocellulose]

This is a SPAL. It came packed as an inert item and wasn't actually energetic until the ejection charge was added. Both issued as separate components. The liquid agent was mixed and poured into the bottle prior to functioning.

Basic functioning is: an electric current is applied to a squib which ignites an ejection charge. The ejection charge throws the bottle into the air and ignites a delay in the burster tube. After the delay times out the burster tube functions and shatters the bottle spreading the training agent onto the unsuspecting troops below.

Hope this helps.

 

[Bonnex]

I understand that in the 1980s one small Ordnance TA unit from London (England) was chastised for using SPALs filled with petrol on a night exercise.

 

[TonyE]

SPALs

Now I wonder who that could have been......

Cheers
TonyE

 

[Bonnex]

Blush.......

 

[AMMOTECHXT]

The explosive part was `Actuating Charge L1A1' and worked as the other posts have already described. I don't remember to what height it was supposed to project the SPAL.