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Help small bomb aviation

hasag

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Hello
Came across this inert artifact in an antique shop in Spain, the body is aluminum with five holes and tail plate painted dark red, has two hole as having had a ring.
Measuring 60mm in diameter, 25cm long and weighs one kilogram or so
Anyone know anything about this object?
thank you very much
Greetings from the Europe oven .....

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This is awfully interesting.
The tail construction is typical of the 1916-17 French makeshift bombs made with artillery shells (75mm and above "obus empennes"). Although this is definitively not one of these French bombs.
This raises two questions, beyond the issue of the French influence behind its conception: 1) how is it fuzed? 2) can the body of this bomb be a mortar shell (or incendiary grenade or other "re-worked" shell)?
 
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