Cordite

[Flyby PC]

I was just browsing, and came across this.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordite

 

It's interesting(ish) to learn the finer points about making cordite, but wouldn't you just love to be a member of the "Explosives Committee"?

 

Dirty job but somebody's got to do it.....

 

(Piccy is a WW1 British 18 pounder field gun shrapnel round BTW).

Edited April 8, 2010 by Flyby PC

[Von Paulus]

Thanks for sharing.

[Slartibartfast]

At least you could go out with a bang at retirement... sorry bad joke

[+Olham]

Can you imagine, that still today over 30 tons of unexploded ammo is gathered

every year from Flanders' fields; 92 years after the end of the war?

The farmers deposit shells and granades they find at the nearest country road,

where the army specialists collect them.

 

 

[Duce Lewis]

Interesting Read

Thanks for dharing Flyby!