Exploding Bug?

desertrat

desertrat

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MMDad said:
Since the 40 mm is a grenade, and he found it in the woods, it probably wasn't an HE round, rather an inert grenade target practice round.

However, even the HE rounds don't arm until about 12 meters, so if it stuck in the ceiling it shouldn't go off.
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Doesn't the A-10 use 40mm?
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
MMDad said:
Since the 40 mm is a grenade, and he found it in the woods, it probably wasn't an HE round, rather an inert grenade target practice round.

However, even the HE rounds don't arm until about 12 meters, so if it stuck in the ceiling it shouldn't go off.
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The round going off out of chamber would result in the casing exploding, and the shell probably not going anywhere.. the casing exploding would send shrapnel through his upper body for sure. I ahd this happen with a .22 Long Rifle round in my down vest pocket.. set off by a 9 volt battery. It sent feathers, and shrapnel every which way. LUCKILY the shrapnel took the path of least resistance and went away from my body. If it was an inert grenade round the same thing, except the classroom would be covered with bright orange powder. If it was just the round itself, ie had been fired and found sitting on the ground, it would have killed him, and a few kids in the first couple of rows.. (15m kill radius on the 40mm grenade).

Not sure what the A-10 shoots as far as calibre, but thought it was either 20 or 30 mm.. and most of their rounds are tank killers, non-explosive penetrating rod.

40mm is usually associatted with grenade lunchers, M203 single fire.. or Mk19 Automatic Grenade Launchers.. There are some AA 40mm guns.. BOFORS probably the most famous of the 40mm AA..

Like I said, other then an empty shell, with just a primer, it doesn't sound right..
 
Ken King

Ken King

A little rusty but not crusty
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itsbob said:
The round going off out of chamber would result in the casing exploding, and the shell probably not going anywhere.. the casing exploding would send shrapnel through his upper body for sure. I ahd this happen with a .22 Long Rifle round in my down vest pocket.. set off by a 9 volt battery. It sent feathers, and shrapnel every which way. LUCKILY the shrapnel took the path of least resistance and went away from my body. If it was an inert grenade round the same thing, except the classroom would be covered with bright orange powder. If it was just the round itself, ie had been fired and found sitting on the ground, it would have killed him, and a few kids in the first couple of rows.. (15m kill radius on the 40mm grenade).

Not sure what the A-10 shoots as far as calibre, but thought it was either 20 or 30 mm.. and most of their rounds are tank killers, non-explosive penetrating rod.

40mm is usually associatted with grenade lunchers, M203 single fire.. or Mk19 Automatic Grenade Launchers.. There are some AA 40mm guns.. BOFORS probably the most famous of the 40mm AA..

Like I said, other then an empty shell, with just a primer, it doesn't sound right..
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Isn't the A-10 rotary cannon a 30mm?
 
MMDad

MMDad

Lem Putt
itsbob said:
The round going off out of chamber would result in the casing exploding, and the shell probably not going anywhere.. the casing exploding would send shrapnel through his upper body for sure. I ahd this happen with a .22 Long Rifle round in my down vest pocket.. set off by a 9 volt battery. It sent feathers, and shrapnel every which way. LUCKILY the shrapnel took the path of least resistance and went away from my body. If it was an inert grenade round the same thing, except the classroom would be covered with bright orange powder. If it was just the round itself, ie had been fired and found sitting on the ground, it would have killed him, and a few kids in the first couple of rows.. (15m kill radius on the 40mm grenade).

Not sure what the A-10 shoots as far as calibre, but thought it was either 20 or 30 mm.. and most of their rounds are tank killers, non-explosive penetrating rod.

40mm is usually associatted with grenade lunchers, M203 single fire.. or Mk19 Automatic Grenade Launchers.. There are some AA 40mm guns.. BOFORS probably the most famous of the 40mm AA..

Like I said, other then an empty shell, with just a primer, it doesn't sound right..
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http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ve/article/0,1375,VCS_251_4597688,00.html


More info. Sounds like it was the whole shell if it threw shrapnel around the room, but it couldn't have been the grenade itself going off.
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
MMDad said:
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ve/article/0,1375,VCS_251_4597688,00.html


More info. Sounds like it was the whole shell if it threw shrapnel around the room, but it couldn't have been the grenade itself going off.
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That's better... sounds like he and a few of the kids got REAL lucky it wasn
t a lot worse. M203 round doesn't have as big a "charge" as say an AA round would.. M203 rounds only go a few hundred yards, the powder charge would be enough to blow up the casing, (shrapnel wounds to his arms), still wonder what kind of round it was. Find out a teacher had a live 40mm HE room in the classroom full of kids.

I was stationed in Fulda, and went into our learning center (basement of the NCO club I think).. and thought it strange that we had a partially disassembled "trainer" Stinger missile in an Army Learning center. About a month later all hell was breaking loose on base, at the learning center. One of our ROMAD's (basically an AF pilot doing his ground time) was getting a tour of the base, and he not only thought it strange, but also recognized it as a LIVE Stinger. Nobody ever did figure out where it came from.
 
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wileyCoyote

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Just goes to prove....Don't pickup shinny baubles when in the woods, you don't know where they've been.
 
MMDad

MMDad

Lem Putt
Justanotherjoe said:
What the heck do we have teaching our kids?
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Obviously, the same people who taught you reading comprehension and grammar.

This guy was teaching adults, not kids.

The correct grammar is "Who in the..."
 
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heavenly was

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MMDad said:
Obviously, the same people who taught you reading comprehension and grammar.

This guy was teaching adults, not kids.

The correct grammar is "Who in the..."
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If we found out they were aliens or maybe rodents then the question could be proper.
 
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