155 extended range projectile

[Gspragge]

This crawled in today - not something I've seen on the loose before.
105 for comparison

 

[HAZORD]

Gordon, by the looks of it it has a Base Bleed unit on the base. Nice find! ERFB-BB Extended Range Full Base Base Bleed, and it is one of the newest versions with the pads formed in production, instead of welded on.

I wish I was living back in NY again.

 

[US-Subs]

If I recall correctly it is Extended Range Full Bore. Then perhaps the BB.
The Iraqis had a bunch of these, I believe all were S. African manufacture. They were testing and trying to adapt them for CW/BW dispersal. I think (memory lapse) I brought a couple of examples back from a Kuwait/Iraq UNMOVIC exchange, they may still reside in the Dutch EOD collection - as UN/OPCW property. Any of the Dutch guys got pictures?

 

[Gspragge]

Yes it has the base bleed , more images ~

 

[Gspragge]

I just wish to confirm that this was made by General Electric C0 and is Lot 1 1986 as
the markings would seem to indicate. No idea as to the meaning of the latter A ?
Any one else have one of these ?
The dummy fuze is marked;
549585- 2n
2.10 LBS

 

[pzgr40]

From my own collection

155mm ERFB-BT, 155mm ERFB-BB, 155mm M107, and propelling charge 16E1 (white bag)

Cutaway models of two 155mm ERFB shells…. and the story of Gerald Bull. At the start of the 60’s of the last century attempts were made to shoot a satellite into space by means of two connected 16” ship’s gun barrels during the HARP (High Altitude Research Project), as rockets were still quite...

www.bocn.co.uk

 

[HAZORD]

My bad, it is as Jeff said, ERFB-BB Extended Range Full Bore Base Bleed.

I have at least one IRAQI ERFB projo, with signs near the fuzewell of the explosive being burned out of it (scorched paint).

I will place it near a south African one as a comparison and take a photo.