Unknown German 155MM

[blu45bob]

Found in the Arizona desert (YPG) and cannot find any information on this projectile. On projectile body: 155H DM719, DM1487A1. LOSRHU03E6272. On projectile base: DM1488, LOSRHU03A6281

 

[HAZORD]

Maybe it is an optical illusion, but does the fuzewell look like it is opened up as if an internal burster was blown out of it, like when it sometimes happens with WP projectiles?

 

[Manniman]

It was manufactored by Rheinmetall (=RHU) in 2003. Labeling is typical german Bundeswehr.
http://www.rheinmetall-defence.com/..._ammunition/indirect_fire/artillery/index.php

I would guess it is a training ICM that did not open. (But the base plate looks very solid ?)

Usually the last digit in a DM number suggest:
..7 = spotting
..8 = training
..9 = something else

 

[EOD]

8 = practice

 

[blu45bob]

German,DM719 finally ID,D Conducted EOD procedure and look what came out.2 SMART simulated Sub munitions

 

[Manniman]

Good to know.

I would not say that these are SMART submunitions, because SMART is manufactured by GWS = Gesellschaft fr Intelligente Wirksysteme mbH.
http://www.giws.de/
--> I agree

 

[blu45bob]

The sub munitions shown are Mass simulators, they simulate the actual SMART, submunition

 

[Fusse2004]

Sorry! That's what happens when you do not look right! If a tail a SD 15

 

[Manniman]

@blu45bob

how comes that know the content so well, and why are they not equal in size?
What ist the sense of such a projectile without parachutes on the SMART?
Was the container supposed to open?