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British 81mm mortar, M374A1?
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I had emailed the Hawthorn Ordnance museum about the fins. A very helpful bunch at the facility. Interesting reply from them:
"Please be aware that despite the TM, the M141 fin was also used with M374A1s for the British. Now you'd be asking me how do we know that....
When the British demil their stuff, they send it to the USA because we have the depots to do the work and when HAWTHORNE got the contract for the demil of the British mortars, we saw the bodies, fins and the CANS they were in, go through the process....and there were 100's of thousands of rounds that got cooked in the rotary furnaces. I think we crated maybe 1000 rounds (inert) just for our museum-support-activity.
To our knowledge, the M362A1 was ONLY used by the Brits and the Marines (USA). The other detail questions you asked would need to be answered by in-service personnel"
"Please be aware that despite the TM, the M141 fin was also used with M374A1s for the British. Now you'd be asking me how do we know that....
When the British demil their stuff, they send it to the USA because we have the depots to do the work and when HAWTHORNE got the contract for the demil of the British mortars, we saw the bodies, fins and the CANS they were in, go through the process....and there were 100's of thousands of rounds that got cooked in the rotary furnaces. I think we crated maybe 1000 rounds (inert) just for our museum-support-activity.
To our knowledge, the M362A1 was ONLY used by the Brits and the Marines (USA). The other detail questions you asked would need to be answered by in-service personnel"
Slick
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"Please be aware that despite the TM, the M141 fin was also used with M374A1s for the British. Now you'd be asking me how do we know that....
When the British demil their stuff, they send it to the USA because we have the depots to do the work and when HAWTHORNE got the contract for the demil of the British mortars, we saw the bodies, fins and the CANS they were in, go through the process....and there were 100's of thousands of rounds that got cooked in the rotary furnaces. I think we crated maybe 1000 rounds (inert) just for our museum-support-activity.
To our knowledge, the M362A1 was ONLY used by the Brits and the Marines (USA). The other detail questions you asked would need to be answered by in-service personnel"
When the British demil their stuff, they send it to the USA because we have the depots to do the work and when HAWTHORNE got the contract for the demil of the British mortars, we saw the bodies, fins and the CANS they were in, go through the process....and there were 100's of thousands of rounds that got cooked in the rotary furnaces. I think we crated maybe 1000 rounds (inert) just for our museum-support-activity.
To our knowledge, the M362A1 was ONLY used by the Brits and the Marines (USA). The other detail questions you asked would need to be answered by in-service personnel"