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Unknown item from Latvia

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Just had these pictures forwarded to me, a guy that works with my son was doing an EOD visit this fall with Latvian EOD, saw this at a police collection. I've never seen this design before, a variation on a 9cm mortar maybe? They had no chance to get measurements.

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Hmm, never seen before, but let me more think on an AP bouncing mine.
Flat end with, apparently separation grove, stay in the ground and on upper side (frag side), place for igniter


Yoda
 
It looks like a russian "Bounding Shrapnel Mine". Judging by its professional, industrial finish, I would place it in a timeframe after WW2. On page 122 of US TM 5-223A a similar WW2 design is described.
regards,
Bellifortis.
 
Thanks, they had it in with some misc projos, that got me started down the wrong path from the beginning. I'll pass it on. Do you have a scan of that page? I'm at work and don't know if I have the document or not.
 
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