Spaceinvader (23rd May 2022)
Hello everyone,
yesterday, I received from a brother in arms, a request for the identification of an unidentified object. I hope someone here can help us with a correct identification.
Location of discovery: an Estonian garden
Length : 21,3 cm
Diam : 3,2 cm
Weight : 366 grms
Explosive : tested with Expray, 1 group, TNT
Metal of body : steel
The two grooves (base of the head and 1.2 cm from the base) are apparently identical and have a width of 0.2 cm.
More details will be impossible to obtain, the object having already been transformed into light and heat (destroyed for those who do not understand the hint!)
See the attached pictures. Again, I very much hope someone can help us identify this object. Personally, I would like to obtain a document reference concerning the object.
Thanks to all
Yoda
Any live or dug ordnance presented by me has been disposed of by EOD technicians.
Spaceinvader (23rd May 2022)
No help whatsoever with a positive ID, but going by the thin casing and rounded tip my guess would be something akin to a bangalore torpedo,...but for the size....
Or perhaps a civillian mining/demolition charge for limited objectives.
Last edited by pzgr40/42; 22nd May 2022 at 09:11 AM.
Yodamaster (22nd May 2022)
Does anyone have another idea, perhaps ?
Yoda
Any live or dug ordnance presented by me has been disposed of by EOD technicians.
If you don't limit your imagination by geography - it looks a lot like the body - minus tail, of the long Japanese submunition, a variation/cross between the German incendiary tail and a stretched German/Japanese HEAT type head. Size is pretty close as well. A lot of designs appear shared/copied from that period between Japan, Germany and Russia - perhaps?
Last edited by US-Subs; 25th May 2022 at 09:23 AM.
All dug or live ordnance shown in my posts is under EOD control and has been or will be dealt with accordingly by EOD personnel
Yodamaster (25th May 2022)
Yoda,
Did you search in family of central burster (HE gaine beneath a fuze) ?
Any Live or Dug ordnance shown by me has been disposed of by EOD personnel .
Yodamaster (25th May 2022)
Here is the best photo I have at work. Second row down, left side.
DSC_8614.jpg
All dug or live ordnance shown in my posts is under EOD control and has been or will be dealt with accordingly by EOD personnel
MINENAZ16 (25th May 2022), Yodamaster (25th May 2022)
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