any ideas

[smle2009]

Hi to all,
any ideas I this one gents?

Cheers
Tony

 

[US-Subs]

Not sure that it is for munitions. The wired down screws would not normally be done for a munitions pieces, but likely the piece was intended to stay on or near an aircraft. Wiring them down keeps them from being sucked into an engine or something similar.

 

[smle2009]

Hi US-Subs,
I'm 99.9% sure that it is munitions related due to it's location of recovery and very likely within a A/T role,one more bit of info,all the bolts have sheared and looks if they were designed to.

Tony

 

[US-Subs]

Should be an interesting piece then.... Seems a bit over-engineered for end caps -

 

[stecol]

I dont'n know, but it seems linked to a some type of scatterable AT landmine such as AT-2 or PT Mi-D1 or similar item.

Regards
stecol

 

[US-Subs]

Years ago I worked with AT-2s being ejected from MLRS, there were tubes, but they had nothing like this. Any ejection charge designed to shear 6 bolts is going to be pretty healthy - anything inside would have to be pretty robust or well protected.