From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 05:56:04 PDT
Maybe the after-action report is incorrect in its entirety. It might have
They can be verrrry nasty, indeed.
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been an inert round, and a rare African red-breasted exploding spider.
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Exploding paperweight costs teacher his hand
At 2:29 AM -0400 4/5/06, Marty Galyean wrote:
>
>Could a primer only have taken off part of his
>hand? Anyone know? I can't help but think that
>a full load would have shook things up more with
>maybe some students up front catching some of
>the blast. I'd imagine even a primer only blast
>would jackhammer a guy's hand pretty bad in a
>40mm round. Assuming the primers are
>proportionately larger; I recall the 88 casings
>I've seen had huge primers.
We don't know what kind of 40mm round it was. I
doubt it was a 40mm Bofors HE shell from an AA
gun, that'd should have left the front part of
the class room an utter and bloody wreck (not
good for the front row of students at all). Could
it have been an AP round with a base fuse and the
much smaller bursting charge? Perhaps a 37mm
round from the WWII era?
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