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Japanese 20x142mm

earni74

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This Japanese 20x142mm is a bit of a mystery, the projectile and fuze is, I have Ken Elk's books on "under 20mm" and "20 to 40mm" and this particular combo fuze and projectile does not appear in the book, all comments welcome Thanks20220716_115323.jpg20220716_115246.jpg20220716_115224.jpg20220716_115142.jpg20220716_115132.jpg20220716_115120.jpg20220716_115027.jpg20220716_115003.jpg
 
Looks homemade to me, or a bitser.

The thread on the 'fuze' is too small and coarse for 20mm Japanese (possibly a partial fuze from something larger?).

The bourrelet is too pronounced, like it was made from a drawing and the projectile wall thickness is excessive for a fuzed HE 20mm.
 
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