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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[Surpmil]

These must have added some beneficial iron compounds to the soil, as well as keeping many an old bolt and screw machine turning profitably.

Used to have a German WWI example in the family an ancestor brought back from France: a steel rod with a simple conical tip and four flutes cut into the other end creating "fins" of a sort, about 8mm dia and 100mm or so long IIRC. From the provenance it might have been dropped on or near that Canadian hospital in France that was bombed by Gothas in 1917.

MIC stocks are up by about a third - war is still a great racket.

[RASelkirk]

Sarco shows 1# boxes of the little 25mm ones listed for $24.95. When I was a little guy, 12 or so, and US involvement in Vietnam was just getting ramped up, our local county fair had an Army (?) display of ground gear and weaponry where they were handing out handfuls of these flechettes to us kiddies....

Russ

[jond41403]

Sarco shows 1# boxes of the little 25mm ones listed for $24.95. When I was a little guy, 12 or so, and US involvement in Vietnam was just getting ramped up, our local county fair had an Army (?) display of ground gear and weaponry where they were handing out handfuls of these flechettes to us kiddies....

Russ

Yes, they even sell the three sizes of spindles that were used for the flechettes to wrap around to fit inside the shells.

[browningautorifle]

Numrich arms used to sell flechettes with the anti clotting orange powder still on them...

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The Bee hive flechettes are getting around $25/10 here or more depending on who is bidding Fleabay again.

[Low & Slow]

The old Man gave us each one of those Lazy Dogs back when. I'll bet my brother still has mine. Of course, he still wouldn't admit just how he wound up with two.

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Get some Grappa into him Low & Slow they'll agree to anything or not remember giving yours back!

[Low & Slow]

Ha! Ha! Trouble is, I'd probably be helping him drain the bottle, and the mission plan might escape my last remaining brain cell!

[Aragorn243]

I have two of the three. Missing the long one.