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Hallo,
I just read this post and saw the beautifully made cut. Congratulations to the handyman ! But, there seems to be one small part missing, the ( I assume) headopening charge, a thin disclike tin with a hole in the middle backoriented, covered by a foil blowthrough bulkhead, that I assume is ignited through the empty middle tube, that is not shown in this beautiful cut of an inert scooling model, identified by its black paint. I have never seen the real thing, but always assumed that the aluminium cylinders in this scooling model were not real chaff. I invite the experts to clarify this. The other thing is the nomenclature S-5PB asked for in the initial question. In the most informative book "Soviet/Russian Aircraft Weopons Since World War Two" Yefim Gordon mentions only 2 , the S-5P and the S-5P1 who he writes are filled with metal coated fiberglass strips. Please clarify. Additionally I ask if anybody has a picture or drawing of the S-5S or S-5SB, the Flechette rounds, mentioned in Gordons book, of which I have never seen a picture.
Thanks in advance for your consideration,
Bellifortis.