1068 submunition bomblet 2Kg

[jvollenberg]

From the thread ...
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/81803-More-historic-grenade-stuff/page3?highlight=bertone

Here is the 2-KG Italian Bomblett ....

DIA: 71MM
Length W/Fuze: 154MM
Length of Body: 116MM

The board was disassembled at some point and the pieces went to the Aberdeen Ordnance Museum, not at Fort Lee.

Joe

 

[peteblight]

Joe,

Does your information tell you the fill material?

Cheers

Pete

 

[jvollenberg]

Per the OP ... and I am not sure if it's right, maybe someone else might know for sure, it is TNT

 

[MINENAZ16]

TNT is mentioned in documentation and I saw a real one, opened, with a yellow-sand block like TNT

 

[fert]

Hello,
will be nice to see the internal arrangement, there was 3 variant known, one as MINEN showed, other one with simplified fragmentation with cutted metal and the last with fragmented body.
also exhist the incendiary one.



regards

 

[TimG]

From wartime British documentation

TimG.

 

[US-Subs]

Here is mine. The rusted coiled steel piece in the second photo came from a dig in northern Ethiopia. A large number (1200+) of Italian pieces - 75mm, 65mm etc. had been recovered from a burial site (new school foundation). A couple of suspect air ordnance components were recovered, also found were 5-6 of these coils. As they reminded me of the submunition I saved one.