UXO ID please.

[doppz92]

Hi. I found this photo on internet, and these shells look somewhat "weird" to me. The picture apparently was taken not so long ago in Irak by an EOD team. I haven't any measurement nor any idea of the period they were fired or for which purpose (combat, training, proof?) . It looks like there's no fuze and the intriguing detail is the 2 groves on the noze of the projectiles. Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks.

 

[Eggburt1969]

As posted on my Twitter feed...

They would seem to be inert 100 mm 53-PBR-412 (53-ПБР-412) practice tracer projectiles that emulate the 53-BR-412B (53-БР-412Б) armour-piecing high explosive tracer (APHE-T) projectile.



If you want what will be seen stencilled on the projectile (if not so rusty) and not its full division 53 GAU (later GRAU) index code, then PBR-412 (ПБР-412).

An image showing a 53-BR-412B (top) APHE-T and 53-PBR-412 (bottom) practice tracer is below.

 

[MINENAZ16]

I hope this is just a demonstration because I would not proceed like that to destroy this kind of shells (!!) so as not to find them scattered 200 meters away...

 

[Falcon]

I hope this is just a demonstration because I would not proceed like that to destroy this kind of shells (!!) so as not to find them scattered 200 meters away...

I have never been involved in EOD in any way, but was thinking that surely must be a bad idea if those are solid steel projectiles.