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Unknown Ammunition Box
- Thread starter doppz92
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Possibly for two 107mm rockets for the Type 63 multiple rocket launcher? Unsure if text is Arabic or Persian (which use a modified variant of the Arabic alphabet), but the Type 63 is used by several Arabic-speaking countries plus Iran and its proxies. I ran the pics through Google Translate but the results didn't offer anything conclusive.
With the measurements you have I think it's possibly a wood box for type 59 130mm cannon ammo, the Chinese version of Russian M-46. There are known exports of this kind of artillery and munition to the middle-east. Here's a pic I found on the internet. Similar wood ammo boxes are very common and cheap in China.
Regards
Regards
The characters are Persian
They are read from right to left
On the long side:
The first line reads: p č - 7 ( "Pe-Tche -7 ") = PG-7 ?
The second line reads: 5-75-333
On the short side:
The first line: p č - 7B ("Pe-tche 7B") = PG-7B ?
The second line reads: 333- 5 - 75
BTW, "B7" is the name by which the Iranian RPG-7 is known in Lebanon and Syria. So may be this is a case for 2 RPG-7 shells.
They are read from right to left
On the long side:
The first line reads: p č - 7 ( "Pe-Tche -7 ") = PG-7 ?
The second line reads: 5-75-333
On the short side:
The first line: p č - 7B ("Pe-tche 7B") = PG-7B ?
The second line reads: 333- 5 - 75
BTW, "B7" is the name by which the Iranian RPG-7 is known in Lebanon and Syria. So may be this is a case for 2 RPG-7 shells.
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