Something small

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Collecting stuff over the years has had me end up with all sorts of stuff but here are 3 of the smaller things that can well ruin your day if the enemy.
For scale I always add the MkVII ball round as most well everybody here has a good idea as to the length and size of one.

The one in the foreground is from a 2.75" rocket these were carried on the Huie's in Nam and normally were fired in ripple effect.
Each rocket contained either 585 120-grain or 1200 60-grain flechettes depending on variant a salvo of these would have a pretty savage beaten zone.

The bomblet looking one is the good old Lazy Dog dropped by the 000,000's from B-52's from great height achieving exceptional velocity falling to earth.
Mine is the early type made of forged steel the other type was lathe turned.

The Lazy Dog sometimes called a Red Dot Bomb or Yellow Dog Bomb was a small, unguided kinetic projectile used by the U.S. Air Force. It measured about 1.75 inches (44 mm) in length, 0.5 inches (13 mm) in diameter, and weighed about 0.7 ounces (20 g).
As they fell they would develop significant kinetic energy making them lethal and able to easily penetrate soft cover such as jungle canopy, several inches of sand, or light armor.
Lazy Dog projectiles were used primarily during the Korean and the Vietnam Wars.

The last tiny looking one is from the "Beehive round" from the 106 RCL or 105mm Howitzer horizontally.
Intended for direct fire against enemy troops, the M546 was direct fired from a near horizontally leveled 105 mm howitzer and ejected 8000 flechettes during flight by a mechanical time fuze. Green starshells were shot into the air prior to their use to warn friendly troops that such a round was being shot.

The ONTOS (Greek for Thing) had 6 RCL's mounted it was said to be able to flatten a 1/4 acre of jungle using these out of all 6 RCL's.
One story I heard this happened and they found a VC soldier with his AK nailed to his chest.

But yep small but rather nasty if like I said your at the receiving end.

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