Identification assistance

[US-Subs]

0313, 0315 : French fuze "24/31 Peuch-Remondy Mle 1916 (P.R.)"
0318 : French fuze "FUSEE DETONATEUR PERCUTANTE DE 24/31 T.C.A.L. Mle 1926, LEFEVRE"

Thanks, any difference between the small and large openings on the face?

 

[US-Subs]

Here are the French/clones that I was referring to, new pieces that I'm working on now. Some have nomenclature, but without references is can be difficult to determine which part of that nomenclature is actually the model number.

 

[US-Subs]

Two more fuzes - the first I recognize as from the Swedish 37mm APHE but I don't have a model number of the fuze. The second is confusing without a manual. Searching online I can find a photo of the fuze from one of the US published guidebooks, but while the fuze appears to me to be an Italian BPD, they have the same fuze and nomenclature shown but identify it as a PDB 122. Searching for BPD 122 Cat-UXO shows a fuze that has similar construction, but is actually marked as PDB.

 

[sgdbdr]

Here are the French/clones that I was referring to, new pieces that I'm working on now. Some have nomenclature, but without references is can be difficult to determine which part of that nomenclature is actually the model number.

MZ62 in the middle is probably Swiss.
M45 (cyrillic) on the right is former Yugoslavia

 

[sgdbdr]

Thanks, any difference between the small and large openings on the face?

I meant 318, not 316, 317 for those I have no idea.

 

[Eggburt1969]

Italian BPD

Isn't BPD the maker of the fuze, and as such is short for Bombrini Parodi-Delfin?

 

[Ivashkin]

The word in photo 148 means "inert" in Russian.

It is not russian, it is Bulgarian.

 

[stecol]

Item IMG_149 maybe a PDM-2I fuze, or a similar device.

CAT-UXO - Pdm 2i seamine

Information about Pdm 2i seamine

cat-uxo.com

 

[US-Subs]

0297/8 looks like the top part of the Obus Explosive Mle 1916/18 GABA projectile, assuming that there are screws in the side.

Looks like it, thanks. I see plenty of the Mle 1916 A Robin, but they don't have the three screws. Good eye.

Isn't BPD the maker of the fuze, and as such is short for Bombrini

 

[US-Subs]

Isn't BPD the maker of the fuze, and as such is short for Bombrini Parodi-Delfin?

That is what I believe, but it does not explain the confusion in the online sources, nor give me a model.

 

[US-Subs]

Here is another. I can make out 1-2 random stamped numbers, but nothing that looks like a nomenclature. The lower portions look very US to me. There are a few hand drawn characters, a with a little imagination perhaps an anchor in a circle. Oddly, the window with the wires looks like part of the construction, not like a cut away.

 

[Eggburt1969]

That is what I believe, but it does not explain the confusion in the online sources, nor give me a model.

I've not personally looked at that fuze, and have no local (in the office) example to check it's markings. Unfortunately I have found many online sources just repeat, parrot fashion, what is present in certain sources. Examples sources being the Afghanistan and Iraq 2004 EOD guides, the 1997 DIA 'Worldwide Fuze Identification Guide', and the former 'Jane's' publications. Unfortunate these guides and books, like all intelligence and reference materials, have errors in them. The skill is having a large enough personal knowledge base to spot such errors, and correct them. Many of these online sources seeming don't have this personal knowledge base.