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Mystery French bombs

Dreamk

Well-Known Member
I found in the German Federal Archives a strange short document dealing with the metallurgical analysis of 3 booty French bombs: 225kg marine, 200kg, 500kg.
The document included the following drawing of the bodies of these bombs:
R_100_15_0273 a.jpg
R_100_15_0275a.jpg
R_100_15_0277a.jpg

For comparison these are the drawings of these bombs from Deminest based on French documents from 1941:
222kg Mle 1938 Screenshot 2023-10-17 212143.jpg

200kg Screenshot 2023-10-17 211823.jpg

(the following is a 100kg bomb which structure was identical to teh 200kg bomb)
100kg Screenshot 2023-10-17 211853.jpg

500kg No2 Screenshot 2023-10-17 211720.jpg
500kg Mle 1930 Screenshot 2023-10-17 211631.jpg

500kg No1 Screenshot 2023-10-17 211750.jpg

and here is a drawing from Schneider industries of the 200kg bomb body

200kg Image1.jpg

One can see the obvious differences in the drawings of the 200kg bomb
There are also less pronounced discrepancies with eth 500kg bombs drawings
Can some throw some light on these? Minenaze16 have you ever seen something similar?
 
BTW the 225kg is called "sprengbombe" = Frag bomb while it is in fact an Armour Piercing bomb, a further discrepancy
 
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