Here's a tricky one guys.

One of the club's I am a member of, just reopened our outdoor range (thank god), it's an old RAF airfield and the butts have just been dug out, lead recovered and refilled for the first time since WW2.

The original steel target gear was recovered, having been buried in soil for decades along with some steel panels.

One panel was still half buried, so I spent 30 mins digging it out and cutting the roots that had grown through the bullet holes.

Clearly hammered by .50 cal and and .303, inpacted 9mm is still stuck to the surface... It's 6 mm thick, 8 inches wide, 16 inches long (ish) and clearly been riveted to something along both sides...

I would think it's been blasted by aircraft machine guns, as I can't see .50 cal being used in any other way on a wartime RAF airfield.

So, were these part of standard WW2 range equipment, or armoured panels from aircraft?

Any thoughts guys ....

It's being cleaned and mounted!
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