40mm Grenades

[EODGUY]

Here are some of the 40mm rounds from my collection I thought might interest some others.
Photo 1 l-r: M397 Bounding HE; M397A1 Bounding HE; M407A1 Practice; M406 HE
Photo 2 l-r: M433 HEDP; M433A1 HEDP; XM651E1 Tactical CS; XM?? Improved Effectiveness Cartridge.
Photo 3 l-r: Experimental Practice; M781 Practice; XM781 Practice; M713 Red Smoke Ground Marker.
Photo 4 l-r: XM635 Yellow Smoke Ground; M661 Green Star Parachute; XM585 White Star Cluster; AAI's Enclosed Area CS cartridge.
Photo 5 l-r: XM683 Rocket Assisted HE; Experimental AVCO Rocket Assisted HE; M430 HEDP; M384 HE
Photo 6 l-r: M576E2 Multiple Projectile; M576E1 Multiple Projectile; Experimental Scimitar loading with 13 thin metal gliders with a razor sharp leading edge; Experimental flechette loading.
Photo 7 l-r: Four variations of the Disposable Barrel Cartridge Area Test Ammunition (DBCATA) rounds. The far right is the XM690. A folded metal envelope in the case held the gas pressure effectively making a silent, smokeless, flashless cartridge.
Photo 8 l-r: Expended DBCATA case with the envelope extended; One of the numerous Telecartridge experimental cases using the folded metal envelope for usse in the M79/M203 launchers; Experimental CS loading with a ping-pong ball filled with powdered CS in a four-piece plastic sabot; Austrian Type 112 HE/PDSD made by ARGES.
I have many other sectioned ordnance that I will try and post at a later time.

[ammocat]

Wow, that is some collection, I real enjoy seeing cut aways, thanks for posting the photos.

[inertordnance]

That is a beautiful collection EODGUY, thanks for posting!

[Weasel]

I would have thought pzgr40 would be all over this thread. Fantastic selection of sectioned rounds, i have never even heard of the flechette loading ones before. Very interesting to see, thanks for sharing them with us,
Best regards Weasel.

[darren]

Great collection of 40mm grenades! Thanks for showing.

Darren

[grog18b]

Awesome, awesome, collection. You wouldn't have photos of the other side of them, would you?

Good to see you here too Frank! GROG

(I was going to e-mail you about this site, but I see I'm too late...)

[pointblank0]

Like it. Did you section them yourself

[pzgr40]

That's one beautifull collection. My compliments.
Regards DJH

[weberoed]

Good day sir
Nice collection, I really like shot #6 and would really appreaciate it I could get a couple closer shots of the 2 grenades to the right.

My 40 collection (over the years) went by the way side - some the army made me turn in (even though I got them above board, OK maybe there were a couple in question), the rest I traded off or sold. I guess you know by now jack McGeorge past away, jack and I worked a number of projects together and I traded him my .22 cal, M433 mounted, and a couple experimental ones that revolved around chem/bio. I tried to get a number of tiems from his son, but no luck.

[EODGUY]

Hey guys (greetings Mike) I have been off the web for about a month and will not be back on on a regular basis for a week or so more. Hence no postings or viewings really. once the dust settles here I will answer your threads and post some more photos that you wanted. I had not heard about Jack McGeorge passing. Guess we aren't getting any younger are we. Bob