The Bombatorium

[US-Subs]

The Great Lakes Cartridge Show was this past weekend and happily it is increasing in ordnance each year. I was very lucky and finished the weekend with some very good items. In some cases I had to buy as a group from the parking lot (8-inch, etc) but here are some of my more interesting finds, I may follow later with more.

Gordon, if you are seeing this, is the case correct for the 37mm proof? I have not seen either previously and it will be weeks before I can try and research it.

 

[US-Subs]

And a few more.

 

[HAZORD]

The AAC rounds are nice, especially with links!

 

[ron3350]

WOW. What a haul of great items. Nothing like this to buy in Australia.

 

[apfsds]

So many incredible specimens. WOW!

Some of the designs on many of these I have never seen before. The flutted projectile on what I "guess," is a 30mm round is wild. The APFSDS in the first picture is also really nice. I think the dart is backwards, but amazing. The Bombatorium, is the, Smithsonian of Ordnance.

 

[US-Subs]

Picked up a couple of new items yesterday. I've got some other projects running so it will be a while before I can get everything cleaned up and on the shelves. In the meantime I wanted to get some pictures out. I'm looking for an ID on one grenade and a dust-collector memento piece.
The Korean grenade is small, about half way between an M67 and a V40. I have no info, but could it be a Korean Hanwah K-400 Fragmentation? The dust collector is a well made miniature projectile mounted on a heavy steel plate, with a disk showing two (German?) gentlemen who are so far unidentified. Any details would be welcome. There is a very light inscription scratched into the steel, but it is difficult to see and photograph. I've attempted to get an image, but may need to eventually disassemble it to read fully. The M1923 grenade appears to be dated 1948, and I have no idea what the gyro is for, though it appears to be air driven. The 4.5-inch rocket cutaway is from an M8.

 

[apfsds]

Picked up a couple of new items yesterday. I've got some other projects running so it will be a while before I can get everything cleaned up and on the shelves. In the meantime I wanted to get some pictures out. I'm looking for an ID on one grenade and a dust-collector memento piece.
The Korean grenade is small, about half way between an M67 and a V40. I have no info, but could it be a Korean Hanwah K-400 Fragmentation? The dust collector is a well made miniature projectile mounted on a heavy steel plate, with a disk showing two (German?) gentlemen who are so far unidentified. Any details would be welcome. There is a very light inscription scratched into the steel, but it is difficult to see and photograph. I've attempted to get an image, but may need to eventually disassemble it to read fully. The M1923 grenade appears to be dated 1948, and I have no idea what the gyro is for, though it appears to be air driven. The 4.5-inch rocket cutaway is from an M8.

The gyro looks a lot like a, German G7 torpedo gyroscope variant. The gimble bolts heads look a bit different.

Jason

 

[Gspragge]

the Unidentified ?
The two chaps are Franze Joseph & the Kaiser ~

 

[US-Subs]

The gyro looks a lot like a, German G7 torpedo gyroscope variant. The gimble bolts heads look a bit different.

Jason

Agreed, looks very close, at least within the family.

 

[jvollenberg]

Here is the image with Google translate. it is South Korean, at least in language.

Joe

 

[sgdbdr]

Something like that :

 

[Eggburt1969]

Something like that :
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I think US Subs said it was "about half way between an M67 and a V40". As such the K410 seem less likely, as that is a bit bigger.

At a guess its the K479 training grenade, which is nominally 54 mm in diameter and 70 mm high.

A comparison of US-Subs photo, which has been rotated, and the Koryo Pyrotechnics K479 is below. Other than the production details, text in each grenade's markings seem to be pretty close, if not identical.



The K479 seems to be of a similar size to the K413 preformed fragmentation hand grenade (see below).



A K401 training grenade can be seen next to the K413.