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| GERMAN CHEMICAL WARFARE MATERIAL |
| Part I - GROUND WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION |
| Section Q - SIGNAL PISTOLS AND AMMUNITION |
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I–Q–13 |
| CARTRIDGE, SIGNAL, DOUBLE STAR |
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These cartridge are made in the following varieties: red-red (rot-rot), green-green (grün-grün), yellow-yellow (gelb-gelb), red-yellow (rot-gelb), and yellow-green (gelb-grün). |
| GERMAN DESIGNATION: | Signalpatrone, Doppelstern, rot-rot, etc. |
| CARTRIDGE CASE MATERIAL: |
Aluminum or cardboard, the latter being painted with the color or colors of the signal, a black diagonal line separating the two colors. |
| MARKINGS: | Closing cap |
Divided by a black diameter line, the two halves painted the colors of the signal |
| Body (aluminum) |
Two painted bands (color of signal) Signalpatrone, Doppelstern, rot-rot, etc. (Stencil-led) |
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| Base |
Milled all around on rot-rot cartridge. Unmilled on green-green cartridges. Brass gelb-gelb are also unmilled. |
| CALIBRE: | 1.04 inches |
| LENGTH: | 4.03 inches |
| WEIGHT: | |
| ACTION: | Two colored stars |
| PERFORMANCE: | Delay | 1 second |
| Time of burning of star | 6 to 10 seconds |
| Vertical range | 250 feet |
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NOTES: |
Cardboard type has brass base. These cartridge are obsolete and their markings are haphazard; the colors of the stars were very unsatisfactory. |
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