Huge engineer's breaching shaped charge, European made
Yep this thing is about 8 pounds and about sixteen inches tall. It has folding legs to act as a stand off. A shaped charge uses a copper cone that in concave and holds back the explosive from the target. Upon detonation the cone collapses forming a jet or thorn of molten metal that penetrates the target through a small opening created by the jet. Makes holes in stuff with high explosives! Inert and in my museum.
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Yeah, though the Jerry's had the Haftholladung magnetic mine, consisting of the Pfaust head on a set of three triangular magnetic feet. I need a haftholdladung for my collection, come to think of it... OH! My new contact has WW1 "golfball" magnetic anti-ship mines! I gotta have those, even though they are missing the carriage/anchors.
Looks like an early model Cratering Charge actually. Used to make a crater in infrastructure (roads or runways) to make way for more packs of explosives to really f*ck things up.
I might be wrong on that, as the cratering charges I'm aware of were usually cylindrical rather than cone shaped and were less about "shaped charge" and more about "big bang"
I might be wrong on that, as the cratering charges I'm aware of were usually cylindrical rather than cone shaped and were less about "shaped charge" and more about "big bang"
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