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WW2 British No 69 Cutaway Grenade

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~ WW2 British No 69 Cutaway Grenade ~

The No. 69 was the first British device to make use of the “all-ways fuze” later seen in the No. 82 Gammon bomb, the No. 73 Thermos bomb and the No. 77 smoke grenade. The “all-ways” fuze is an impact-only fuze. The term “all-ways” refers to the fact that all of the possible ways in which the grenade could hit a target were guaranteed to trigger detonation. Normally, impact-detonated munitions must hit the target with a particular point of impact (i.e. perpendicular to the fuze mechanism) in order to detonate. In contrast, no matter which way the No. 69 grenade hit the target (e.g. landing on its base, or sideways or upside down) it would still explode.

Our example is a nice museum quality cutaway which allows the collector to display some of the intelnals of this device.
An excellent piece indeed.

~ Condition ~

The piece is in excellent condition and fully stripe.

PQAB0#10941

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