Mills 36 Mk 7

[CINDERS]

Jim is it the nature of how things are made like ordnance that the QA is not that good given the amounts required not only for training but for combat use.
As the stuff should be for the enemy not taking out the end user, Peter often gives the crunchies a bit of curry and probably rightly so with the pull it to bits attitude they have but equipment failures such as you have described would put a real dampner on the squads, but from what you said about the claymores they are clearly marked are they not "This side towards the enemy".

Hopefully the lot numbers were taken from the batch that suffered the failures and the cause found, wont bring those blokes back but hopefully it will stop further needless loss of lives, one wonders if the civilian companies making the gear what audits the Army puts them through or their QA for that matter.

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[browningautorifle]

"This side towards the enemy".

The official story is it fell over before detonation. When a user examines the blast effect however, one can see...

We don't have or produce that much ordnance that it should be faulty...

[BruceHMX]

The official story is it fell over before detonation. When a user examines the blast effect however, one can see...

We don't have or produce that much ordnance that it should be faulty...

Exactly we had that problem, blast machine not throwing enough current even after tested, or a dud blasting cap. Many had been made during the Vietnam era and who knows how they were stored. Watched an EOD group daisy chain about 10 of them one day. That was a sight to see!

[browningautorifle]

Many had been made during the Vietnam era and who knows how they were stored.

Ordnance isn't like fine wine...