155mm propellant Lot number

[weberoed]

Have a picture of a 155mm M 110 projectile with a cardboard cased propellant charge setting next to it, the Lot number is "MA-4-89". can anyone tell me who the manufacture of the propellant might be?

 

[EOD]

Might be these:

MILAN ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT

MECAR, Belgium
Matra, France (unlikely here)
SA DES EXTINCTEURS MARTIN J., ORLEANS (LOIRET) (France)

STE DES ETS MALICET ET BLIN, AUBERVILLIERS (SEINE-SAINT-DENIS) (France)

STE MBDA, SELLES-SAINT-DENIS (LOIR-ET-CHER) (France)

 

[weberoed]

Thanks, note Milan I know that. I'll Dropbox you the picture later

 

[weberoed]

sorry I was wrong it is Milan, shouldn;t be as it is propellant setting next to an Iraqi 155mm M 110

thanks

 

[EOD]

Then Mecar may be an option for many reasons (wasn't Mecar involved into HARP?).
Unfortunately I have no idea what the French factories listed above were making (keeping in mind that French stuff was found in Iraq as well if I recall it right).

 

[US-Subs]

Finding someones's stuff in Iraq is no surprise. A tougher task would be find a country that did not have stuff in Iraq.

 

[mogway]

This is not a French company that made this combustible cartridge case. In France, the code "MA" is now only used by MBDA.
"STE DES ETS MALICET ET BLIN, AUBERVILLIERS" and "SA DES EXTINCTEURS MARTIN J., ORLEANS" doesn't manufacture ammunition
Personally, I thought Milan Army Ammunition Plant.

 

[EOD]

Investigating the surrounding components and the code on the steel parts of the projectile may help.