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Several Swiss ammunition for sale or to identify

kz11gr

Well-Known Member
Hello

Here auctions on Swiss ammunitions with several shells , fuzes and cases. But few informations. Perhaps can you explain and bring some explainments ?

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105 mm or 120 mm ??

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7,5 cm Anti aircraft


Flabkanone 38 ??

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mortar bombs & fuzes

8 complete shells + cases

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9 cm

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Several fuzes

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7,5 cm​

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Mortar 71mm

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20 mm inert

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Mortar

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Old shells

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Mortars

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Inert ammo

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Several shells

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105 mm

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300 kg Cluster Bomb
 

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I know a similar short case for Swiss 10.5cm Howitzer M42/46. So I assume correct description (20mm training subcaliber for 10.5). Swiss call subcaliber "Einsatzlauf".
As far As I know 120 is not correct for swiss marking. 12cm should be better. So I think 120 is a serial number.
 
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Thank you Minenaz16 for this answer.
For this other photo, do you think the bomb may be for a pneumatic 10.5 (pressluft / "Brochet") ? used also in Switzerland

 
Thank you Minenaz16 for this answer.
For this other photo, do you think the bomb may be for a pneumatic 10.5 (pressluft / "Brochet") ? used also in Switzerland

As you said same as German ww1 mortar flugelmine but this one is a Swiss 6.5kg bomb (for aircraft), 6.5kg flieger sprengbombe.
 
https://www.petitesannonces.ch/a/5505545

Now that's a nice example of a shrapnel for the 7,5 cm Feldkanone 1903 L 30, originally manufactured by Krupp-Gussstahlfabrik in Essen and later modernised in the 1940s by either Sulzer in Winterthur or Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte (K+W) in Thun. Here is also a nice collection of glass-plate pictures of this gun in Swiss service around 1912. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:7,5_cm_Feldkanone_1903_Krupp_in_Swiss_service

It's also interesting to note that, even though we in Romania used the same gun (Tunul de câmp Krupp, cal. 75 mm, md. 1904) the shrapnel itself is different in both shape of the body and that of the fuze.
 
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