Bomb Smk BT 2in MkI

[MINENAZ16]

Hello,

I don't understand what means "B.T. - Bomb Thrower" ?
What means "A.F.V" in the text ?

Regards




Smk MkII mortar to compare :

 

[siegfreid]

Armoured Fighting Vehicle .

 

[TimG]

Minenaz16,

Some tanks were fitted with "Bomb Throwers" which are essentially mortars by another name, in order for the vehicles to deploy smoke. I'll post a diagram later.

TimG

 

[TimG]

Minenaz16,

As promised

TimG

 

[MINENAZ16]

Thank you TimG, very interesting.

 

[BMG50]

Bomb throwing mortar rounds smoked straight away as they had a much shorter range, where as normal mortar rounds had a delay as these smoke rounds started to deploy smoke on their downward decent as so not to give the firers position away.

 

[Chris]

Sebastian did you miss the real one in Soesterberg at your visit?

Regards,

Chris

 

[MINENAZ16]

Sebastian did you miss the real one in Soesterberg at your visit?

Regards,

Chris

Hello Chris,

I think so but there were so many beautiful things to see in so little time !
I remember well the "little john" turned in door stop

 

[AMMOTECHXT]

I'm guessing the bomb thrower was an early type of smoke discharger for armoured fighting vehicles. The multi barrel smoke discharger was a later development on this idea. If you type in `smoke discharger grenades' and `multi barrel smoke discharger' you will find a number of related threads, eg: http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threa...-Scout-Car?highlight=smoke+discharger+grenade.

 

[Snufkin]

It was the standard smoke bomb thrower used in WWII British tanks. The sketch shows its position in the turret of a Cromwell MkI, with stowage for 30 smoke bombs. Alignment for aiming was by swinging the turret on to the target and sighting was by using the turret sighting vane.




Tom.

 

[blu97]

The bombthrower was also used on US tanks, that why the ammunition is mentioned in TM-9-1901-Artillery-Ammunition-1944 on page 79.

 

[blu97]

Here a pic of our bombthrower.

 

[pzgr40]

So, this 2 inch smoke mortar without the delay is the AFV type

 

[sgdbdr]

Does somebody has a digital copy of TM 9-293 (2-inch Mortar M3) ?