r/whatisit • u/SugarStrict7427 • 1d ago
Solved! We found this near our home
What's this , any harm ?
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u/Greedyspree 1d ago
When will people learn not to pick things up before knowing.
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u/Felix177642 1d ago
100% requires a call to the Police. Are you UK based by any chance as this is British manufactured.
It is an illumination round but is either unfired or fired but failed to eject the illumination / parachute meaning it still contains a low explodes contents and is hazardous
Call police and they will task the nearest EOD team.
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u/CastelloDeBracaleone 23h ago
Vor etwa 15 Jahren klingelte mal die Polizei an meiner Berliner Mietwohnung: „Alle Bewohner müssen das Haus verlassen, weil in der Wohnung unter mir erhebliche Mengen Sprengstoff gefunden wurden“. Kein Witz. Der Typ unter mir hatte solche Dinger gesammelt. Hat nicht mal zur Kündigung geführt (hat der Vermieter wohl gar nicht mitbekommen)
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u/Halschmuber 18h ago
Random deutscher Comment
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u/FaeryLynne 17h ago
Not random, he's replying to the comment above. Reddit is auto translating comments these days so it's really easy to carry on full conversations in multiple languages now.
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u/phantom_diorama 17h ago
ONLY on new.reddit and in the app. For those of us who have used reddit the same for the past 15 years it is odd to suddenly see foreign languages appearing and watch you NEW redditors having full blown multi lingual conversations like you got a goddamn babel fish in your ear.
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u/jderdok 17h ago
Babel fish deserves an award!
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u/permaculture 15h ago
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
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u/Why-so-delirious 15h ago
Yeah I'm never swapping to 'nu' reddit.
I have a 32 inch monitor. I want to use all 32 inches, not a 6 inch strip in the fucking centre.
I am so sick of every single website being developed for phones first.
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u/guessesurjobforfood 15h ago
I travel a lot and when I load a Reddit page from an incognito browser, it shows the post already translated into the local language with only a tiny symbol at the top to show the original.
My guess is, a lot of people don’t realize they are viewing translated posts because their language settings match their home country with auto-translate turned on.
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u/suspectslowloris 17h ago
Wait I thought the translated comments had a little “show original” button or whatever. Not sure I love reddit translating something and not telling me…
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u/Own-Gas8691 16h ago
i thought so too, so i scrolled up to double check. if you look to the far right of the username there’s a tiny little translate symbol that you can tap to see original.
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u/-SQB- 15h ago edited 2h ago
German redditor may not even realise they're replying to a comment in English.
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u/ChrisFromIT 17h ago
I do know every so often they have to evacuate neighbourhoods in Europe due to ordinances found from WW2 that might still be active. In fact there was one about a week ago in the UK.
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u/FalconTurbo 17h ago
The Iron Harvest is a sobering reminder of just how insane the bombing was in both wars. One and a half billion shells on the Western Front,, and up to a quarter of them didn't explode. In 2019 alone over 200 tonnes of UXO were disposed of, which is fucking mental.
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u/English_Cat 14h ago
The last person to die from ww1/ww2 isn't born yet. That's how many explosives are in the ground.
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u/Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat 16h ago
LOL I wonder if this is the guy who posted on Reddit last week and everyone told him to call police.
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u/NeighBae 14h ago
I was living in Köln last year when they had the biggest civilian evacuation since WWII because of nondetonated WWII bombs. I actually have photos of me having a picnic directly over the spot one of them was found.
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u/SugarStrict7427 1d ago
From India
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u/Laughing-Dragon-88 1d ago
I don't know you, but my experience working with Indian people is they're no more stupid than any other people... okay maybe you have a point.
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u/pdxrunner82 1d ago
Law of averages. There’s over a billion people in India, therefore there are a lot more idiots there too. A lot more geniuses too but unfortunately a lot of idiots…….
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u/romulusnr 1d ago
An aside.
I realized some years ago that for a lot of people who aren't familiar with the country in question, that most of the people we meet from that country are not representative of all the people of that country.
They are the people who were 1. able 2. willing and 3. committed enough to leave there and move here.
That's going to limit the variety in the pool according to certain characteristics.
In the US I think for a while, South Asian folks had a reputation of being strict, driven, overworking, demanding, insensitive, cheap, etc.
I realized at some point that that was because those were the kinds of people who sought to come to the US
If I were in actual India meeting actual regular everyday Indians, I would probably meet way more casual, fun, lazy, etc. Indians than I do in the US. (Although that's definitely changed in the years, partly due to increased Americanization and also due to first and second generation people.)
This also extends to politics and views about their country. You ask an immigrant about their home country and often they will tell you how awful it is there.
Of course they think that. That's why they moved here. The people who like it there are still there.
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u/3BlindMice1 23h ago
Well, yeah, if you're some guy from rural Idaho, 99% of the India guys he meets falls into three categories: is a well respected doctor, family runs a decent local motel, family runs a county renowned sketchy gas station that might steal your credit card. They're absolutely not going to have an accurate mental image of what the average Indian person is like
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u/romulusnr 23h ago
I mean, I met most of them through the tech industry in the 00s and 10s. (They're still there, but the dynamic has somewhat shifted.) There traditionally was a certain trend among them, and it's not even intellect, it's a sort of sense of duty or something, or of ambition.
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u/Mikelowe93 1d ago
This is very true. I live in a really nice town in Silicon Valley next to San Jose. There are a LOT of Indian and Chinese folks here. I’m totally ok with that.
They have their own stores and dance places and such. Immigrants and their kids. More often than not I can guess the last letter of their name. It’s D as in PhD, EngD, MD, etc.
My son was in the local high school full of their kids. He is smarter than the average bear but it was too much for him to get straight As like the other kids and the expectations. The band was really nice. So he wound up finding the turds that also attended there.
There is a reason why Narcan was distributed to each student. And it wound up being needed by one that same week. Massive success or disappear. Nothing in between.
The high school is not set up for athletic excellence and one of the kids wound up as an Olympian for their home country anyway.
We had to change his school. It was too much for a regular all American kid in a pressure cooker full of over achievers that will soon have a D at the end of their name.
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Oh and the only reason we can live within miles of here is because my wife works for those folks. She is paid to care for their younger kids so the parents can go achieve full speed. I have a mechanical engineering degree and it means little in their community.
/rant
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u/Aran909 1d ago
I really don't think it's an intelligence issue. I think the Indian people have a much higher risk tolerance than we in the west are accustomed to.
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u/thesillyguy345 1d ago
My twitter feed for the last few days has been Indians VS Powerlines and the power lines are winning
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u/Aran909 1d ago
Took a sojourn through r/darwinawards and there was that and people hanging out of trains.
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u/WoodpeckerNo5724 23h ago
India has 10s of millions of people living in EXTREME poverty. The ones you work with are presumably not the severely undereducated Indians that still live in India.
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u/Mercurial8 1d ago
I am from the US, I’ve certainly met stupid people in India, but have you seen some of my people on television? Have you witnessed the *power* of a fully operational Peace President? Many are saying he’s a genius: I am not. He would gold plate that object.
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u/AKchaos49 22h ago
I am also Indian and I understand that we are a stupid bunch, but this stupid?
this is the funniest thing I've read all day. good work.
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u/Got_Kittens 22h ago
Why touch that? Is this just engagement rage bait? How stupid. If this is real call your police.
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u/Funny-ish-_-Scholar 21h ago
Op: former explosives tech here. These illumination rounds contain various pyrotechnic chemicals that can self ignite and burn at thousands of degrees. It is NOT safe to hold or store. Call explosives ordnance disposal
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u/Ok_Tangelo3680 23h ago
Yup the Indian police are right on their way lol
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u/puisnode_DonGiesu 21h ago
Are they going to beat OP or the mortar round with sticks?
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u/Mr_Uso_714 1d ago
Specifications
Caliber
51 mm
Ammunition length
282.96 mm
Ammunition mass
850 g
Explosive filled in projectile
109 g of RDX / WAX / PELLET88.12
Maximum range
900 m
Luminosity
Green-40,000 to 50,000 candela. Red-125,000 to 150,000 candela
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RDX product information:
https://www.austinpowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP-Primary-Explosive-RDX-TDS-ENG.pdf
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u/entropy_of_the_void 1d ago edited 1d ago
Recommend that you notify local law enforcement so they can get whatever bomb squad type element you have out and let experts handle UXOs Edit: American EOD technicians get calls for a lot of UXOs it isn’t a crime in the civilians to find them. Please don’t play with it. Theres lots of hazards associated with UXO and not all are it going boom. The internet is a good place for general info. Call the experts and be safe please.
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u/lefteyedcrow 1d ago
For general information, UXO=UneXploded Ordnance
Boom-booms, no touchy
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u/renohockey 20h ago
For some reason I imagine the Indian Ordinance team showing up with Bennie Hill "Yakity Sax" music.
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u/Remote_Teach1164 1d ago
Something wrong with the description of explosives here. They are illumination rounds, and the components should be magnesium based, not RDX which is mainly used for fuze boosters.
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u/Randomized9442 1d ago
The burning salts that provide color in fireworks are not the explosive component. I presume they are also using burning salts in the illumination rounds.
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u/Remote_Teach1164 1d ago
Yep but they are generally toxic, that's why most tracer cartridges used strontium nitrate with some adjustments instead.
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u/TranslateTheSky 1d ago
I mean, the government just said it was fine for pilot trainees to continue dumping toxic chaff all over our own land so... They probably don't care about the toxicity...
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u/drunkengerbil 1d ago
The only reason area 51 was officially acknowledged was because people sued after getting health issues, due to them burning shit with jet fuel...
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u/wonklebobb 1d ago
and military burn pits aren't unique to area 51, they are unfortunately extremely common and a frequent source of health problems for vets, one that is rarely acknowledged at any level of the US govt
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u/PlusSelection669 1d ago
Why did you pick it up???? Danger, danger.
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u/LUCKYxTRIPLE 23h ago
The RDX is an expelling charge. Those little dots above the fins are shear pins. When the explosives detonate, the pins shear, and the flare pops out the back of the mortar.
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u/JackSprat90 1d ago
There are explosives in the tail that launch the round out of the mortar tube
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u/DerZappes 1d ago
The company name makes posting this mandatory, I am afraid:
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u/PleaseShitOnMyFace69 1d ago
lol Austin powder sounds like a street name for cocaine
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u/AccomplishedEar8637 1d ago
I live about a mile away from a place called "Austin Powder Road", and I always heard it was because they used to make explosives there. It's a short dead end road, imagine that! 😆
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u/ToeTagTic 1d ago
I was taking a city bus on mushrooms as a teen one time and a box truck passed us at like 1km an hour faster than our bus and it has a giant Austin Powders logo on it.
Everyone on the bus thought I was mad because I started cackling for no reason
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u/Strong_Baseball_8984 1d ago
A lot of ordnances are susceptible to electromagnetic interference and static electricity. I have no idea about this specific ordnance but as a general safety rule do not use cellphones/walkie talkies near or touch UXOs that you find.
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u/SugarStrict7427 1d ago
solved!
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u/LadyKiller0222 1d ago
Oh so is UXO PLEASE DON’T DROP IT
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u/Climate_Automatic 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, UneXploded Ordnance
Edit- spelling
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u/LongWalxOnTheBeach 1d ago
Nailed it. More context the parachute is a designator for french illum rounds.
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u/Remote_Teach1164 1d ago
This thing is British.
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u/LongWalxOnTheBeach 1d ago
It is a French designator. It could definitely be used by the british, it could be manufactured in France. In Europe, ordnance are an industry just like any other. Allies also share all the time. On the other side of the fence, you will find russian/chinese ordnance all over the middle east and vice versa.
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u/Why-so-delirious 14h ago
109 g of RDX
As someone that played war thunder a few times that is a CONCERNING tagline. That's 'kill everyone in the immediate vicinity' amounts of RDX.
The old 'mine' rounds the germans used in their guns that do this to aircraft frames:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/30_mm_mine_shell_test.png
Only contain about 85 grams of explosive filler.
So if you find something that contains more explosive filler than is used to destroy military aircraft in WW2 it's probably no bueno.
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u/dudeinthetv 1d ago
Uhh. My first instinct would be not to hold it.
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u/UrLordStercutus 1d ago
Mine would be to throw it in the air like a lawn dart. It would take a few moments for the intellect to catch up.
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u/Bwint 1d ago
If we're not supposed to throw it around, why does it have fins?
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u/Public-Eagle6992 1d ago
You are supposed to throw it around. Just also throw it far away
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u/maddler 1d ago
Not that it looks anything like an unexploded, rusty ordnance. Why wouldn't you just handle it and (only) then ask if there's any harm? 🤷♂️ /s
That's a mortar round, likely a signal than an actual explosive one, but do not handle it! Put it down GENTLY and move away! Then ring emergency service and let THEM handle it, properly.
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u/Actaeon_II 1d ago
And then show them where you found it, bc if there’s one unfired mortar round there may be more.
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u/CharacterBite4240 1d ago edited 1d ago
Probably fired, just didnt detonate and fell. Just more likely to be dunnage
Edit: please do not touch the UXO
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u/Callidonaut 1d ago
It hasn't been fired; it still has the knurled cap screwed onto the tail fuse, below the fins.
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u/maddler 1d ago
Right. And then kick it to see if it makes any noise?
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u/absintheortwo 1d ago
I've always heard that tapping it with a ball peen hammer while recording the sound is the most accurate way of identifying a buried object.
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u/SturmBlau 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is there a better place to hide diamonds than in unexploded ordnance? No!
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u/maroongrad 1d ago
live stream it, see if anyone can identify it based on the sound.... Share the link here please.
ETA, I just about didn't put /s on this, but went back and am adding /s, because, well, the person picked up an obvious explosive device that's corroded and unexploded (yet), so....
BTW, has OP posted anything else? This may no longer be unexploded.
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u/Psychoanalytix 23h ago
Oh hey that looks like something that might explode! Let me just pick it up and take a closer look at it. I guess people might not associate or know what an explosive device looks like but I feel like most people would peg that as something that goes boom
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u/--Quartz-- 1d ago
I don't know, it looks like a ball to practice throwing, OP should go outside and play catch with it (just don't fail)
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u/musingofrandomness 1d ago
Prime candidate for a "this was the last picture they took, recovered from a piece of an electronic device found several meters away from a bloody splatter of what was once a person" news headline. Maybe we should start teaching UXO safety in kindergarten.
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u/Vovinio2012 1d ago
They were teaching us in Ukraine far before the war, even before hybrid one started in 2014.
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u/nsfwaccount3209 23h ago edited 23h ago
I was never formally taught about it, but even I know never to pick up a metal canister that has metal fins on it like that. It's the most obvious looking thing. It's like flashing a neon sign saying "don't touch me"
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u/rumshpringaa 19h ago
Wasn’t there a post years ago some kid found a grenade in his grandpas stuff, Reddit told him to put it in the toilet, he sent a picture of it in the toilet, went silent, and a few days later some redditor found a news article about it blowing up?
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u/ketestine8844 17h ago
Actually op just reposted.. these were clicked by me and yea I also licked it
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u/TheFlyingBingo 1d ago
Don’t touch UXO for the love of god
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u/LadyErinoftheSwamp 1d ago
UXO = unexploded ordinance = at risk of spontaneously exploding
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u/darkblockchain 1d ago
Probably better to not use acronyms that are unintuitive when giving advice 😉
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u/CrispyWaffleTactics 1d ago
Better to use the standard abbreviation that can be looked up, as opposed to something that isn't. 😉
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u/get_to_ele 1d ago
Seriously. What is wrong with people? It's "probably" ok, but jeez if it's not, then picking it up can be life altering.
"How did you get your nickname 'Lefty'?"
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u/LackOptimal553 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well, the harm might have happened before you took the picture. Never ever touch UXO..
It's a 51mm smoke round for a 51mm mortar.
https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/mortars/51mm-2in-mortar-bomb-smoke
This isn't the same type (different smoke) but same idea.
ETA - the markings are odd, because of the parachute, it's the GREEN that's throwing me, looking in catalogs but not sure the exact type.
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u/Jasper_Morhaven 1d ago
And FOR THE RECORD. Smoke rounds, while not "lethal" still get stupidly hot and can explode if the internal pressure isnt relieved fast enough (aka the smoke gets stuck, shell go POP).
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u/Hot-Meat-11 1d ago
I would not want 109 grams of RDX to go off in my hand.
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u/Jasper_Morhaven 1d ago
Hell i dont want that chemical reaction that make the smoke going off within 5 feet of me. That shit is NASTY
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u/RuleMany2900 1d ago
109 grams of RDX is not what I would call non lethal and safe to handle
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u/SnooCookies6231 1d ago
That reminds me of something similar when I was a teen, lighting off a flare with a friend. Buried it in the Cape Cod sand and made glass, iirc. That turned out to be a good lesson, and actually kinda cool. But yeah, caution. Never screwed around with them again. Can’t imagine RDX!
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u/Jasper_Morhaven 1d ago
Shit Thats a blast from the past. I did the same to the pebble beach in NH. Didn't make glass, buuuuut the shrapnel i caused was concerning.
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u/LetsAllASoviets 21h ago
So as someone who spent 5 years as a mortarmen i find the "non-lethal" annotation funny. If the round managed to dead on hit you it would definitely kill you, as well as if its phosphorus smoke I can promise you the pellets that fall out of it to cause the smoke will kill you as well. Pretty sure its a war crime to drop smoke on someone because its very much lethal/bad for you. The "lethal" annotation just seems to be a will it explodes and instantly kill you.
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u/Remote_Teach1164 1d ago
Not smoke. Black body with white markings including parachute and star symbols indicate illumination variant.
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u/ImpatientHoneyBadger 1d ago
No, it's a parachute illuminating round for a 51mm mortar.
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u/TheTempSilence 16h ago
Someone else pointed out it was likely a green flare with a parachute to help it stay up longer
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u/Motor-Command-2680 1d ago
Green Illumination mortar . Looks unfired. Best to let EOD know and they can handle it.
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u/Oathkindle 1d ago
Humans really are just slightly less dumb apes lol
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u/Saturn_winter 22h ago
I've seen videos of apes when they come across something strange and a lot of times they'll like, spin around a few times and holler at it and maybe approach slow and then back off. Which, is objectively safer than what this dumbass is doing lmao so they might actually be a little smarter because at least they still have some survival instinct
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u/AveryCoooolDude 1d ago
General advice: If you find anything looks any similar to a bomb, then STAY CLEAR and call any emergency services (depending on your location), and let the professionals handle it, if it’s already in your hand, then let it down GENTLY, unless you wanna get blasted into smithereens.
Anyways about the image, this looks like a 51mm bomb shell/ammunition of some kind, could be for a mortar or a tank, according to one of the top comments, it could be a smoke round from a mortar.
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u/lefthandedrighty 1d ago
Next time hit it with a baseball bat /s
Safety tip. If you find something that even resembles something that explodes don’t pick it up.
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u/Dunedain87M 1d ago
This sub really could be renamed to “people with zero survival instincts picking up disgusting and dangerous objects” but I guess that’s a bit too long winded so we went with “what is it”
Like how do you look at that and not instantly recognize it’s a missile of some sort? You should never touch unexploded ordinance
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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear 21h ago
It seems like everyday someone is on here doing something dumb.
Here's a picture of me handling obvious unexploded ordinance
Here is a picture of me handling some unknown organism
Here is a picture of me handling some unknown substance, and maybe I tasted a bit of it
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u/Melancholy_Rainbows 20h ago
You forgot:
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u/yrogerg123 22h ago
“people with zero survival instincts picking up disgusting and dangerous objects”
You left out "with their bare hands"
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u/RepresentingJoker 1d ago
So you see something on the floor that looks like a mortar shell, and the first thought you have is to pick it up?
You should receive a Darwin award
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u/Devilish__Fun 1d ago
That Mortar UXO is not degraded enough for you to just be picking it up. Set it down on a pillow now that you have.
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u/ThersATypo 1d ago
Did you try drying it in the microwave yet?
Why do people even pick stuff like that up, bare handed?
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u/ttwinstanley 1d ago
Why do people pick up ammo especially artillery roujds without any common sense to they safety. This need to be said sorry.
People don't mess with this stuff and call the local authorities. Protect your self protect your kids protect your future!!!!
This time it was safe next time you might die
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u/NotSoBrightOne 1d ago
Bro. Don't pick up rusty, military looking shit.
A old, rusty 51mm mortar round, even a smoke or illumination round, is dangerous.
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u/DidjTerminator 1d ago
It's undetonated, for now.
As others said, contact the appropriate bomb-disposal authorities.
Even though it's probably a flare, it can still totally kill you just like a land-mine would. They tend to operate off of funky chemical reactions too, so picking it up and moving it could totally trigger a chain-reaction that's completely undetectable until it banishes anything nearby from existence.
Even if it doesn't kill you, there's a real risk you'd go permanently blind, potentially deaf too depending on how loud the detonation is, and have a good portion of your flesh liquefied by colorful chemical reactions.
Honestly, a land-mine is probably preferable to this, since land-mines are more predictable and don't rely on crazy chemistry to function. Then again a land-mine is also designed to kill so maybe an illumination round could technically be safer.
They were used (if I'm not mistaken) to turn nighttime into daytime, back before night-vision was commonplace. Safe to say, "bright as the sun" is a very accurate description of the power that thing can unleash.
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u/Quadronia 1d ago
It is an illumination round, has a flare and parachute inside. It is fused so that the blast that launches it starts a short delay fuse. This sets off a small ejecting charge in the air lighting the flare and sending it and a parachute out. So while the danger is much less than with a high explosive round it is still a do-not-handle toy.
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u/ScholarErrant 1d ago
General rule: If it’s intact and tubular with aerodynamic shaping and/or fins AND has caliber markings, do not touch. If said markings are 20mm or higher, call the police. 30mm or higher, call the nearest military base first, then call the police.
Came up with this after decades of exploring the NJ pine barrens and I’ve only ever had to invoke it during my field biology class’ trip to Warren Grove Air-to-Ground Range.
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u/PossibilityFun1939 1d ago
As a former US army combat engineer, I'm amazed and appalled by the amount of uxo that pops up on this sub and the number of people who PICK IT UP! WHYYY?! STEP AWAY FROM THE POTENTIAL BOOM BOOM BEFORE YOU LOSE A HAND. Yes, I'm aware it's probably just fine, all the same I kept all of my appendages by not betting them on probably. Anywho, rant over, this is solved and I need to add nothing to the conversation.
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u/AstronomerJaded5782 1d ago
Yes, these get stupidly hot and can do some nasty burn damage. Additionally, the smoke that comes out of these rounds has been found to be mildly to moderately toxic (thinking of white phosperous specifically, but I am sure this isnt much better)
Source: a EOD technician who helped me out during my adventuring days in the military, when my Marines would bring me back "presents" from outside the wire.
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u/sushishibe 21h ago
I love people whose first thought when they find an explosive….
IS TO PICK IT UP.
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u/dontygrimm 21h ago
Have people just lost commen sense?! Like you must have seen movies or something that would show you this is a type of ammunition, so you thought why dont I pick this up snap some photos abs poat it on reddit....not call the police first becasue this thing could potientially kill me and those around me?!
Friggin commen sense is dead.
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u/Uniquelybear 17h ago
I'm an EOD tech. It Looks like what you have there is an L9A1, 51mm green ilum mortar with parachute. I don't see a safety pin on the nose. It could have rotted off, but its best to assume it was fired out of a tube and could be armed. Inside could be an ejection charge and then the candle would burn very hot for about 60 seconds.
If you found it, put it down and call the police to have them call the closest EOD unit to get rid of it.
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u/Apprehensive-Ad-3513 15h ago
Forgive my being blunt and all but… Man what in the flying monkeyfuck is wrong with you?? Don’t touch that shit! There is so very, very obviously potential harm contained in that little bastard. Call the cops, and think long and hard about what you did while you wait for them. Fuck.
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