Project Eldest Son...

[V40]

www.macvsog.cc/eldest_son.htm#ELDEST SON


Although, this might not tell us exactly why it was cancelled, it certainly does give us some facts.

 

[EOD]

Interesting report.

Just that there was no production of 7.62x39 (or any other small arms ammunition) in Petrograd (St. Petersburg / Leningrad) after 1918.

 

[US-Subs]

Interesting report.

Just that there was no production of 7.62x39 (or any other small arms ammunition) in Petrograd (St. Petersburg / Leningrad) after 1918.

Not a report, a magazine article.

 

[weberoed]

Jeff is right another article that re hashed what is already known. Best kept secret was the308 devices that were never revealed until the US making nice with Vietnam in helping clear UXOs gave them the publications on them. What has never been fully documented is how the Eldest Son 82mm mortars functioned. From an old EOD tech who worked for the CIA during the war it was determined that the 82's had a flash detonator inserted in the tail boom, making a fuze train from the propelling charge up into the HE main charge. At the main storage area for these rounds some crates got mixed up with regular 82mm. They all had to be xrayed to find the sabotaged ones, but not before a few crates got shipped out.

 

[V40]

Not a report, a magazine article.

Maybe so, but he does have the knowledge by being there.

 

[V40]

Jeff is right another article that re hashed what is already known. Best kept secret was the308 devices that were never revealed until the US making nice with Vietnam in helping clear UXOs gave them the publications on them. What has never been fully documented is how the Eldest Son 82mm mortars functioned. From an old EOD tech who worked for the CIA during the war it was determined that the 82's had a flash detonator inserted in the tail boom, making a fuze train from the propelling charge up into the HE main charge. At the main storage area for these rounds some crates got mixed up with regular 82mm. They all had to be xrayed to find the sabotaged ones, but not before a few crates got shipped out.

Quite contrary aren't you?