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Unknown Projectile ?

siegfreid

siegfreid

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Got this with some other items the other day . I assume it's a projectile of some sort ? Measures 0.644" at the widest & 2.90" overall length . It's hollow but the base is crimped over slightly so it may have had a core at some time . Any help much appreciated !

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It looks very much like the jacket from a Frankford Arsenal .60 caliber bore-rider experimental from WW II. However, the .644" diameter would preclude it from being that. Does the rear portion appear to be a seperate piece?

Ray
 
Ray . Thanks for that info . The lower part appears to be turned into the whole thing but may be seperate & sweated on . Difficult to tell . The actual diameter of the main part is 0.593" . Mike
 
The .593" is a nominal dimension for the bore-rider part, but the .644" still is not. Other than to mention the FA 60 caliber experiments, I don't know what else to make of it.

Ray
 
Maybe 15mm BESA ?, some of the .60 cal experimentals used the BESA projectile.

Bob
 
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