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Japanese Navy Tail Bomb Fuze B-3(a)
Japanese designation: Type 15 Tail Fuze Model 2.
Used in 250 Kg G.P.H.E and Anti-submarine bombs
Showing armed and unarmed as well as disassembled
I am trying to identify this piece of UXO. It is 540mm (21 1/2 inches)long, 42mm diameter. It is a smooth cylinder with a hexagonal (6 sided) nut on one end and a counterbored recess approx 15mm deep at the other? It seems similiar in dimentions to a 4 lb incendiary. However i have not seen one...
I found this at the beach today and didn't realise what it might be until i'd taken it home and bashed some marine concretion off it.
Is it a ww2 mortar perhaps, or something else?
And erm, would it be dangerous after possibly 60 years rolling around in the sea and then 5 minutes hammering by...
JAPANESE ARMY MECHANICAL IMPACT NOSE FUZE A-2(C) with either instantaneous or delay action chosen and mechanically adjusted in the bomb rack during flight.
"FROM 25thapril's COLLECTION"
Channel 4 UK TV 2100 Monday - Blitz Street
This is about WWII and the people who were caught up in the Blitz and the different types of bomb including the damage caused, this is a four episode program and this being the first. No 5131(BD)Sqn - RAF were instrumental in the making of the...
Hello All,
I am new to BOCN. I recently found what I believe is some sort of tail or nose fuze for an aerial bomb. I found it in a box of mixed ordnance at a flea market, the stuff in the box that I recognized dated anywhere from WWI to the 1970, which only made me more interested to find out...
Would be really greatful if someone could ID this for me
German pictures by Ringo853 - Photobucket
the number is 199IIIVAD 5/36 VAD 11/36 41
What is the decaying material at the top? Is it dangerous? is it 1941? Does the guage represent feet and can you tell how many feet it was...
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