Ok so ID wasn't that difficult!!
The fact it was covered in mud and a poor picture is typical of what we used to get shown for ID.
The story of these pics is that a drainage machine in Belgium was going along minding its own business when all of a sudden the operator noticed a problem with the way the blade was cutting, so up it came and he saw a lump of metal stuck on the blade. Being aware of the area he was operating in he had a bit of a look and called the police. The EOD arrived and a colleague of ours at work was part of the team.
It turned out that it was infact a 17cm Minenwefer, unfuzed but full of phosgene. Obviously as soon as it was punctured the phosgene was released. Luckily the driver had the sense to move away and call the police.
As the story goes, the method used for removing the Minenwefer from the blade was to beat it repeatedly with a large sledgehammer (Not an RSP you'll find in any manuals).
At this point the driver was advised to drive the machine around the field until the smell disappeared. It turned out this was a pit containing a number of similar munitions.
The fact it was covered in mud and a poor picture is typical of what we used to get shown for ID.
The story of these pics is that a drainage machine in Belgium was going along minding its own business when all of a sudden the operator noticed a problem with the way the blade was cutting, so up it came and he saw a lump of metal stuck on the blade. Being aware of the area he was operating in he had a bit of a look and called the police. The EOD arrived and a colleague of ours at work was part of the team.
It turned out that it was infact a 17cm Minenwefer, unfuzed but full of phosgene. Obviously as soon as it was punctured the phosgene was released. Luckily the driver had the sense to move away and call the police.
As the story goes, the method used for removing the Minenwefer from the blade was to beat it repeatedly with a large sledgehammer (Not an RSP you'll find in any manuals).
At this point the driver was advised to drive the machine around the field until the smell disappeared. It turned out this was a pit containing a number of similar munitions.
