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Hi there.
A friend of mine has a very battered 2" mortar bomb that he has had for years but knows very little about it. I thought there would be someone here who knows a thing or two about these little beasts. Unfortunatly I have no photo yet (phone broken). It is deffinitily 2" British mortar. The fins are gone now. The body is very pitted. I can just about make out a painted ring around it about half way down the body. It is light, possibly white. The fuze appears to be very similar to one found on a 2" HE round. I have googled it and have come up with two possibilities. The first is a bursting smoke round which I have stuck a picturs of below. The problem is, I need to know if the cap screws off and if it has the same sort of fuze as an HE round does. The second is a practice firing round which I assume would be fitted with a standard fuse with a drilled hole to see smoke?
I know nothing about mortars so when I say "HE Fuze", I mean the one shown in picture 3.
What I am asking really is.... Do bursting smoke rounds have this type of fuze? Am I correct with the theory of the Practice round having hole drilled to see smoke?
Any help would be much appreciated.
PS - My friend assures me that the mortar is completely inert.
A friend of mine has a very battered 2" mortar bomb that he has had for years but knows very little about it. I thought there would be someone here who knows a thing or two about these little beasts. Unfortunatly I have no photo yet (phone broken). It is deffinitily 2" British mortar. The fins are gone now. The body is very pitted. I can just about make out a painted ring around it about half way down the body. It is light, possibly white. The fuze appears to be very similar to one found on a 2" HE round. I have googled it and have come up with two possibilities. The first is a bursting smoke round which I have stuck a picturs of below. The problem is, I need to know if the cap screws off and if it has the same sort of fuze as an HE round does. The second is a practice firing round which I assume would be fitted with a standard fuse with a drilled hole to see smoke?
I know nothing about mortars so when I say "HE Fuze", I mean the one shown in picture 3.
What I am asking really is.... Do bursting smoke rounds have this type of fuze? Am I correct with the theory of the Practice round having hole drilled to see smoke?
Any help would be much appreciated.
PS - My friend assures me that the mortar is completely inert.
