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harry

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Hi, Could anyone help id what the contents of this box would be?
 

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Artifices fumigènes Mle 59 de Défense Rapprochée d'Engins Blindés (DREB).

Machine translation = Mle 59 smoke bombs for close defense of armored vehicles (DREB).

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I presumed HC is short for 'hexachloroethane', which is a smoke composition. HC only represents part of the composition, with the other components generally being zinc oxide, and some granular/powdered aluminium.

Similar grenades launcher rounds are being loaded here.

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Further imagery can be seen here.

 
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Just for note, the similar but smaller grenades being loaded into a launcher are likely Ruggieri type, also known as CAPIRO 50.

These are a lot smaller than the 80 mm ARF FUM Mle 59 you seem to have.
 
By the Nato Stock Number it is a pyrotechnic of some sort. 1370-14-237-0633. Artifice de Signali.French created 1 Jan 1867 and updated January 2023. 1753687987291.png
Pyrotechnics from France (FR)
7071 Aircraft Dummy Decoy Target D6900C1RNCC: 3 | RNVC: 2 | DAC: 4 27 May 2010 1370-14-247-5400 1370-14-237-0366

Hope this helps.
 
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