Does just cleaning up the corrosion really help? Apparently the Norks have begun some sort of large scale 'refurishment' effort for old shells, is this a common practice?
So you just wire brush the?
Does just cleaning up the corrosion really help? Apparently the Norks have begun some sort of large scale 'refurishment' effort for old shells, is this a common practice?
>this?
Those look clean, why refurb that?
Anyway, frick no, that's not a common practice. Ruskies want to buy shells, the Norks have a bunch but they didn't store them properly because they're Norks, and now they're having their slaves desperately scrub them up as best they can so they can sell them to Russia.
Those are what they look like after, you can see where the drive bands were wire brushed and the casings were polished and restencled. There are even fingerprints on the brass.
>"even fingerprints on the brass"
that's not significant given how easily that happens. What's more surprising is that, if this story is true, they're even re-painting everything, like the blue on the shells and the black text on the brass.
>re-painting everything, like the blue on the shells and the black text on the brass.
They did. Here is one that was wirebrushed but not repainted:
>iran
>english markings
why not in farsi?
They export. The world mostly speaks English, noone speaks farsi. It's just a choice for export.
English is literally Lingua Franca
gotcha, that checks out
you have no idea how much pleasure both the fact and phrase "English is the Lingua Franca" brings me.
Suckit, "Frankish" speakers.
Better to sell internationally if needed
Additionally, I think stencilling Perso-Arabic would be way more a pain in the ass than Latin or Cyrillic characters
WTF is this true?
They are almost exactly the same, he can't be talking about standard shells.
Are they so underloaded they're barely in the air?
I think he means they don't make any noise while in flight , usually shells going over you make noise like you hear in war movies. The only ones really seen so far are standard 122s, maybe he witnessed some sort of boat tailed base bleed round that is quiet because it causes less turbulence in it's wake?
We know they make rounds like that but still it is a pretty odd comment.
How does Iran get them there?
airlift or Caspian I guess
In IL-76s that fly from Iran to Russia.
But does cleaning off the corrosion actually help? It's a chunk of steel, if the fuse is good it should be ok right?
I dunno. Maybe if they've got a load of dirt on them it will foul up the breach? Spitballing here.
Do they make VT fuzes?
>thinking that north korea has managed to reach 1940s-western levels of technological development
LMAO
They literally have thermonuclear bombs, ICBMs, and a functional space program that put spy satellites in orbit.
Rust expands from the surface making the shell a larger diameter than spec, this is very bad to fire for obvious reasons.
Brushing the rust off solves this and seeing the driving band doesn't rust and works as the gas seal I can't see any reason this would cause issues.
I think it would need to be so rusted that the thickness of the casing is seriously reduced before it would matter.
TLDR: it's fine
That makes sense, just clean it up and it is fine. Fuses are only screwed in when it is about to be used so that is a separate issue So old Soviet and Nork shells are fine if you clean them.
I wonder if rusty ammo is a significant factor in barrel wear.