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| GERMAN EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE - PROJECTILES AND PROJECTILE FUZES |
| CHAPTER 5 |
| GERMAN PROJECTILES |
| RODDED BOMB FOR A.T. GUN 41, 37-MM |
| GERMAN NOMENCLATURE: 3.7-cm Stielgranate 41. (See fig. 353.) |
| EMPLOYMENT: 3.7-cm Pak 41 (Panzerabwehrkanone 41). |
| PROJECTILE: |
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27.362 inches, total length. |
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10.826 inches, length of bomb body. |
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5.708 inches, diameter of bomb body. |
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18.26 pounds, total weight. |
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5.28 pounds, weight of bursting charge. |
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Cyclonite/TNT (60/40, 2 blocks in wax paper wrapping cemented to interior wall of bomb) tpye of bursting charge. |
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Two boosters Kz.Zdlg. |
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34 Np end to end, one detonator facing forward, the other aft. |
| CARTRIDGE CASE (German nomenclature, 6331): |
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Standard cartridge case closed by th cork disks. |
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6.61 ounces, weight of propellant. |
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Ngl.R.P. (tubular double base propellant nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose) type of pro-pellant. |
| FUZE: AZ 5075 (as in German rifle grenade) and BdZ 5130. |
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REMARKS: The rodded bomb is fitted with both nose percussion and base fuzes and in-corporates the hollow charge principle. The bomb has a rod which fits into the bore, and a concentric perforated sleeve which fits over the barrel of the gun. |
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