We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:43:54 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Go for it.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:01:01 -0600 bit from the archives to put that idea to rest (not a bad idea, just not correct).]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49074 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49074 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:49:15 -0600 A cutaway of the PIAT's bomb that slides onto the spigot? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49070 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49070 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:28:10 -0600 First guess is the inner guts of a spigot mortar shell. The explosive filler looks to be a propellant and the silver metal block driving a pad (rubber?) onto the shaft of the launcher? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49069 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49069 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:20:17 -0600 Ah! Someone picked up on the threads. Yes it screws in place - though it's not truly a breech in the conventional sense, in this application it serves the same effective purpose. That is *not* an interrupted screw - except as an artifact of being a cut-away. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49050 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49050 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:33:57 -0600 for a screw closing breech vice a drop block or slider??? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49049 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49049 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:21:23 -0600 Cutthrought of a HEAT granade from a tank ? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49048 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49048 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:19:41 -0600 Trias - *very* good. You're on to something. Well done. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49039 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49039 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:37:02 -0600 Hmm it's very neatly cut. It locks into something else perhaps a barrel and i can see 4 phases. black painted steel doohah, grey painted steel doodah, crumbly brown doodah and a thin rusty doodah. it looks like the grey thing is supposed to go back to the bump but not further. Maybe the brown stuff is explosive or pretend explosive and the grey bit is the exlosion starter (by compresion??? nah) and the grey and black bits are the dampen the explosion to push something out maybe a small missile. I think I'm way off because two things spring to mind. The grey thing is wedged in hard. Not sure if the explosion would just burst out the back. And why two dampeners? and why different colours? Oh hell i dunno cindy's rumoured new partner? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49038 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49038 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:29:01 -0600 Good question, HDW! Cut-away. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49032 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49032 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:03:46 -0600 Is this in functioning condition, or is it a cutaway? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49031 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49031 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:41:58 -0600 Main gun firing pin. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49029 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49029 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:28:42 -0600 MajMike - nope. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49028 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49028 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:00:18 -0600 are some of the hockey pucks missing? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49027 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49027 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:56:34 -0600 In a very technical sense, you are correct, as far as it goes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49025 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49025 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:51:43 -0600 That looks like some type of explosive actuator http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49024 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/a_new_week_a_new_whatzis.html#comment-49024 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:48:42 -0600