[ARCHIVED THREAD] - FSA Mortar Fail...... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/5/2013 1:02:06 PM EDT
Looks like he put the round in backwards...... 
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Quoted: Hard to see what happened, but there was a post here the other day about sabotaged ammo being found over there. ETA, it does appear that the round was inserted backwards. Isn't there a fail-safe device to protect against just this sort of screw-up? There should be some type of fuse that arms once the mortar fires. Dropping a normal round upside down the tube shouldn't detonate, but I wouldn't make a habit of it. |
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Hard to see what happened, but there was a post here the other day about sabotaged ammo being found over there. ETA, it does appear that the round was inserted backwards. Isn't there a fail-safe device to protect against just this sort of screw-up? There should be some type of fuse that arms once the mortar fires. Dropping a normal round upside down the tube shouldn't detonate, but I wouldn't make a habit of it. Don't forget these mortars are wecsog garage made units so who knows how it's made. |
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Quoted: It looked like he was rotating it just before it blew. Is this not how they arm the warhead?Hard to see what happened, but there was a post here the other day about sabotaged ammo being found over there. ETA, it does appear that the round was inserted backwards. Isn't there a fail-safe device to protect against just this sort of screw-up? |
| Don't with most mortars you pull a safety pin, thus activating the round, then drop it in? Once that pin is pulled its live and ready to blow. The propellant charge has no connection to the detonation charge. Those are pressure detonation switches. But i could be wrong.... |
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Quoted: i have no idea what those guys were trying to do. Any ideas? There's likely a bunch of whacky ordinance available, and I wonder if he was demonstrating how to 'test' if you've got the right round. 80mm vs 81mm or whatever, and he was playing with a mistakenly armed round. |
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I'm confused. I thought there was a firing pin that the base of the round had to hit to fire the round? How would dropping it in the wrong way activate the charge? I guess a collision warhead was armed maybe? Don't know how mortar shells work in that regard...whether launching them arms them or whether it is done before hand. I am sure there are different types of fuses available to include proximity etc. Maybe some one will chime in. |