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This is a fine example that google translator is not good for ammunition related terminology.
I hope that I will not get sick on holiday and the doctor googles what is wrong with me
St. Petersburg fuze factory is quite well known. Their mark PTZ can be found on the 22 sec. fuzes.
Trubka does not mean pipe, but an igniting fuze.
You are right, Bob. In my defense, I didn't want to push the search too far. My goal was just to show how you can initiate a search with the help of the translator by copying the label text into it. Then, I would have compared the words in a military dictionary and with a list of manufacturers for example.
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