No.17 Unknown Item

[50CAL]

G'day all,

I have for your viewing an unknown brass object, a No.17 ?????.
Can anyone enlighten me as to what it is?
The undamaged one was found near a WW2 airstrip in Northern Australia, the damaged one came from an old training & demo area near by.
Construction is of solid brass, with slight traces of red paint still present.

Cheers,

50Cal.

 

[Hoeksel]

No clue what it is, but VAEL (Vickers Armstrong Engineering Ltd.) tells us UK manufacture.

 

[Nismosonic]

looks like it could be part of a rocket motor..

 

[John D. Bartleson Jr.]

The first image appears to be a shaped charge slug.
John

 

[50CAL]

Hi,

Apparently 60Lb rockets were fired at the training area, so you may be onto something....

Thanks