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Kagaragen

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Have no idea what these ones are :tinysmile_eyebrow_t
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pic 3 seems to be a broken bolt...and it's pretty big. I probably should've added something for scale purposes...
 
First one is an artillery dispensed submunition. Not sure of the designation now though. Used against tanks and personnel.
 
Second one looks like an Anti-personel mine. Not sure about the third, it looks like a sawn off bolt.... Can we see a picture of the other end and an idea of size.
Cheers
Gary
 
Only just found this thread. I agree with Glevum and Slick re Ranger mine (photo 2) and submunition (photo 1). I didn't immediately recognise the rod penetrator from APFSDS (photo 3). The submunition rings a bell as used, in British service, as the filling in the M483 shell for the 155 mm Gun and also in the Multi Launch Rocket System (MLRS). There would have been a few dozen (maybe 50 - 60) in the shell and a few hundred (644?) in each MLRS rocket, I forget the exact figures. The tape was the means by which the submunition armed after ejection from the shell or rocket. They had a failure rate of 20 - 30 %, presumably designed that way as an area denial weapon once the initial damage was done by those that detonated on impact. Each would have been the equivalent of a grenade detonating, with an added hollow-charge effect, boring a hole into whatever it hit.
 
Munfrosch is correct, its's an M42 or M46 (for high speed artillery shells, narrow ribbon). The M77 has a wide ribbon (low speed, MLRS rocket)

Regards, DJH
 

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