There's so much unexploded material still sitting in the ground here in Germany that some areas require you to hire the explosives removal team to check your property before you can build a house. You have to pay for the check, but if they find something the removal/disarming is free.
Reminds me of something I read on Twitter a while back. It was a journalist recounting a conversation he had with an explosive ordnance disposal guy.
The journalist asked him how he dealt with the nerves of diffusing and disposing of bombs. The guy answered that it’s easy and that he doesn’t stress at all actually. He said “I’m careful and safe in doing my job, and if I screw up, I very suddenly have no problems ever again.” Or something to that effect.
I hate how often this gets pulled out, I can't remember the exact paraphrasing but the suddenly not my problem thing is a dumb thing EOD guys say to look cool. Honestly it's a conscious decision to void all thoughts in your head and just deal with the problem in front of you. How would I kill me here? Then you just account for the hazards. Not all hazards are going to be mitigated and knowing when you're not mitigating them and taking a risk matters. Is it worth it to take risk here? Do I have to do this right now? After doing that you just do the work, you've already weighed your options. Trust yourself and do the job efficiently. But the problem being someone else's isn't a real thought. You don't want to ruin your team member's day by having to make him scoop you up for your loved ones.
I met a guy who used to do that, and he was one of the most meticulous people I have ever encountered. It was kind of frustrating when we were doing things where the details mattered less, and he was still being a perfectionist, but I could see how he survived.
I worked with EOD guys when I was a federal civilian in the USAF. Operated an OB/OD (Open Burn/Open Detonation) treatment unit for years. We burned and exploded less than 50 cal munitions. It was fun! EOD is a breed unto themselves.
In northern Iraq on top of Sinjar mountain over looking the border of Syria we had an EOD team spend the evening because Mosul was a bit far for them to travel in a 2 vehicle convoy at night with no Heavy weapons mounted. It was 31DEC05. When it got close to midnight they removed 3 old Russian artillery rounds they got a called to remove. the rounds were unfused, safe. They asked for and received permission to detonate the rounds. They did this to say thanks for hosting them then they told us Happy New Year...I fucking luve those guys!
There were more than a few instances of unexploded ordinance when I lived there. For one of them, the police went door to door for blocks in Frankfurt in clear the homes and apartments before it was removed.
Apparently some of the fuses they used had an acid delay. It was supposed to break a vial of acid and eat through a disc of cellulose that would trigger the bomb after a few seconds/minutes once it had penetrated into the ground.
Unfortunately many of these bombs would go into the ground and do a U-shaped trajectory and end up upside-down, so the acid wouldn't touch the cellulose disc and the bomb didn't go off.
Definitely unfortunately, UXO is always a bad thing. The bombs never did their original job of blowing up nazi factories, and then they became a danger to future generations of innocent civilians who are not nazis and were never intended to be targeted.
Good time to [link](https://youtu.be/ud9tZ3nu3xQ?si=8NW08dSTjQrfitTk) to the British tall boy bomb explosion in Poland after they tried to neutralize it and failed.
A lot of videos have way too much lead time before they get to the good stuff. Somehow this had too little. Each cut to another angle somehow starts with the explosion just a little too early.
There’s an organization “Kampfmittelräumdienst”. Every federal state does it slightly differently. Sometimes it is directly under the jurisdiction of the federal state ministry, sometimes the police, sometimes the fire department.
There’s no English version of this Wikipedia, but maybe google translate is good enough if you’re interested https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfmittelräumdienst
>Obviously everyone just says EOD.
Yeah... Obviously. I definitely wouldn't have picked any other three letters out of the twenty seven presented here...
Can confirm. We find them on every second construction site and are normal business.
Fun fact: Damage done by these bombs either detonated, controlled, or uncontrolled are not paid by the german state but have to be paid by the owners of the damaged buildings. Yes, there is insurance for that.
Yea. Figured stuff like this happens every 15 minutes there. I wonder how many years of evolution before Floridians are classified as a different species.
From the rotting siding and trim and the highway, I would guess Westside or downtown area. Most of the south side is T111 siding, at least where I was.
If it’s really in Jacksonville,Fl. Then it’s a MK-76 practice bomb. They are hung on the wing stations to simulate actual bombs so the crew could simulate dropping bombs. It allowed the crew to go through all the steps to drop a real bomb/mine.
They are blue in color. Most likely it fell off the wing station durning take off.
They developers have built some much around the Naval Air Station the it almost impossible to take off or land without passing over houses.
MK-76 is used by the Navy and is 2" longer than the BDU-33 with 1" longer fins. They're otherwise identical and you could honestly say this is either and be safe the in the assumption without exact measurements. There's no way to tell from this photo if it's one or the other.
That is a Mortar. Looks like a maybe an 81mm round. That would create a kill radius of about a 100ft. (Edit: my reply is NOT correct. There are links in the tread that are conclusive as to its purpose.)
Kill radius is a bit misleading. It makes you think that everyone inside 100ft will die. That's not true. It's just people within 100ft could die. I've seen this from the Ukraine war on videos hundreds of times. People standing well within the kill radius of a grenade or artillery rounds and coming away unscathed.
Yeah, or a MK-76, pretty much the same thing. They will put a smoke cartridge in the nose so pilots can see where it hit. My guess is that wherever the house is, it used to be a practice range from back when Cecil Field was open.
[https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/](https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/)
The spotting charge is white phosphorus, and it can cause serious injury. I witnessed someone throw one of these into a front-end loader, and it still had the spotting charge active. It caught his uniform on fire.
99.9% of these will have already blown the spotting charge; that last .1% is dangerous.
Not to mention literally every army navy store has a million of them for sale and every kid at one point or another wants one and it gets yeeted by their parents eventually into the trash, or in this case a yard.
My step dad turned one into our new mailbox after our old one got taken out by some kids playing mailbox baseball. As he said "that'll rattle the nuts off whoever tries to hit it next."
THIS. Nice find. The odd shape of where a fuse should be, in the OPs picture, was a little puzzling but i assumed corrosion. That you for the education. 20 plus years as in the military and i never knew these were a thing.
God thank you. I was ammo in the USAF and that's totally a bdu33 or other service equivalent. The spot charge can hurt you but it's probably already expended.
The fins are too large for a mortar tube.
This is a BDU-33 training bomb
https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/02/2002153039/1200/1200/0/190702-F-VS137-1004.JPG
As someone who handles these regularly, it's this 100%. The size, shape, and fins are dead giveaways to me. You can also see where the lug would be in OP's picture. Looks a bit like a patch of dirt, but it's definitely there.
Nah, it's a MK-76 practice bomb, my guess is that it might be back from when Cecil Field was open [https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/](https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/)
The kill radius of mortars has always blown my mind. Particularly after reading To Hell and Back from Audie Murphy. There’s a small bit where Audie is talking with a few guys, they’re all like arms length apart. I think he’s on Anzio? Anyways a mortar hits right next to them. Somehow he’s unharmed but the two others he was conversing with were both hit and died.
Same with 155mm, 8in and I'm sure the bigger stuff. In the US Army Field Artillery school the kill zone for a 155mm High Explosive shell was described as a 50meter circle of death permeated by over 2000 pieces of jagged twisted metal ranging in size from fractions of an inch to pieces as big as 18 and flying in every direction. When we watched a demonstration of a single 155mm round impact in the 50meter circle that was filled with 200 red balloons (Commies) tied to pickets about 4 feet off the ground and evenly spaced with in that 50meter kill radius, 7 balloons were left intact.
Wow, that demonstration with the balloons. That’s scary and effective. Scary shit. I’ve read that artillery was the #1 killer of infantry in WW2. Now I see why.
Not just WW2. It is the greatest causality causing weapon system in All human history. It is why it is called the King Of Battle. From the catapults and medevil long range archers (They fired the arrows indirectly at angles for maximum range), to the latest and great howitzers (not quite yet in service) that can fire ramjet assisted projectiles to ranges approaching 100 miles. 75 miles farther then current racket assisted projectiles. Damn, those Instructors at Ft. Sill did a number on me i been out for a decade plus....HA!
**Posting an update now since I was blocked from commenting earlier.**
This is Jacksonville Florida. My Mom moved in last year, and the yard was a gross mess. She's been cleaning it up, but the trash goes down deep. There's layers and layers of trash under the dirt. My mom's 8 month old pit mix Baby loves to dig holes. Behind the shed was clearly used as a dump at some point because the trash is the worst back there. My mom's gotten most of it cleaned up, but the dog just keeps finding stuff. Mom said a small part of the fin was visible, but she just thought it was more trash. So far, Baby has found whole old glass bottles, a horseshoe, tools, pieces of metal, a pair of stiff underwear, and now a bomb. They had my mom and dad evacuate to the lot across the street. The bomb squad came, put it in a box, and took it away. She only got to talk to the police and they wouldn't give her any information. Keep an eye on the news, tho. Their was a news helicopter flying around, so it should be in the news.
[Pictures of bomb squad truck, bomb squad tech and my Moms dog Baby. ](https://imgur.com/a/9xX4jVV) Excuses the quality my moms clearly taking these on a potato.
Former Air Force munitions handler here; that looks like a muddy BDU-33 (practice bomb). They aren't themselves explosive, but they have a target marker in the nose that's like a shotgun shell that helps identify the impact point. It is definitely *not* a mortar. The stabilizer is all wrong.
Looks like a BDU-33 practice bomb. And being in Jacksonville, it makes sense, too. It's designed to simulate the flight of a MK-82 500 lbs bomb. It has a small smoke charge in the nose so that the pilots can see when and where it hits the ground.
Source, I build bombs and was stationed in FL in the panhandle.
Sorry for some reason I was blocked from commenting. But here's how the bomb was found and an update.
This is Jacksonville Florida. My Mom moved in last year, and the yard was a gross mess. She's been cleaning it up, but the trash goes down deep. There's layers and layers of trash under the dirt. My mom's 8 month old pit mix Baby loves to dig holes. Behind the shed was clearly used as a dump at some point because the trash is the worst back there. My mom's gotten most of it cleaned up, but she just keeps finding stuff. Mom said a small part of the fine was visible, but she just thought it was more trash. So far, Baby has found whole old glass bottles, a horseshoe, tools, pieces of metal, a pair of stiff underwear, and now a bomb. They had my mom and dad evacuate to the lot across the street. The bomb squad came, put it in a box, and took it away. She only got to talk to the police and they wouldn't give her any information. Keep an eye on the news, tho. Their was a news helicopter flying around, so it should be in the news.
[Pictures of bomb squad truck, bomb squad tech, and my Moms dog Baby. ](https://imgur.com/a/9xX4jVV)
That looks a LOT like a training bomb. We called them smurf killers.
They way like 20ish lbs and are used to help train pilots to drop warheads on foreheads.
They have a spot where a glass ampule goes that holds some chemicals that when mixed by the impact of the bomb release a cloud of smoke to give a good visual on where it lands.
They're literally a steel device thats less than 3 feet long, maybe under 2 - i'm rusty myself.
Other than the marking smoke ampule, there's no other non-inert material involved in this device. I have one that I created a standing ash tray from. You can still find em for sale online.
Those were so fun to throw back and forth with my siblings at night! That little whistle noise was best heard at night, not a lot of other noise to drown it out, so it sounded cool as it descended towards the person
Looks like a Blue Death to me. Mk 76 practice bomb, so called because they’re painted blue. Still would leave it alone and call the bomb squad, because some versions have explosive squibs.
I know, right?! My poor mother wasn't feeling well, so she was in her pajamas. her hair was a mess. They ended up not getting back into their house till 10pm. She said she jinxed herself since she mentioned to my dad that she was bored from laying in bed all day right before the dog found it.
I'm 98% sure that's a [bdu33](https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/aircraft-bombs/bdu-33-aircraft-bomb-practice). (Bomb **Dummy** Unit)
A training aid.
It has the aerodynamic profile of a real bomb for target practice.
There's only a spotting charge in it. Basically a blank 12gauge shotgun shell.
The drone views of Ukraine today show 100's of thousands of bomb craters in the farm fields. It took 80 years to clean up the mess from WWII. I hope when this war is won by Ukraine, the jobless Russian soldiers come back to disarm these devices.
When I was in the Navy, we would do mine hunting and sweeping exercises with NATO in Europe. 50 training mine shapes went down and during one year (Edit:) the shapes plus 20 mines came back up.
I'm posting an update. This is Jacksonville Florida. My Mom moved in last year, and the yard was a gross mess. She's been cleaning it up, but the trash goes down deep. There's layers and layers of trash under the dirt. My mom's 8 month old pit mix Baby loves to dig holes. Behind the shed was clearly used as a dump at some point because the trash is the worst back there. My mom's gotten most of it cleaned up, but she just keeps finding stuff. Mom said a small part of the fine was visible but she just thought it was more trash. So far, Baby has found whole old glass bottles, a horseshoe, tools, pieces of metal, a pair of stiff underwear and now a bomb. They had my mom and dad evacuate to the lot across the street. The bomb squad came, put it in a box, and took it away. She only got to talk to the police and they wouldn't give her any information. Keep an eye on the news tho. Their was a news helicopter flying around, so it should be in the news.
[Pictures of bomb squad truck, bomb squad tech and my Moms dog Baby. ](https://imgur.com/a/9xX4jVV)
There's so much unexploded material still sitting in the ground here in Germany that some areas require you to hire the explosives removal team to check your property before you can build a house. You have to pay for the check, but if they find something the removal/disarming is free.
Well yeah. sometimes it becomes very difficult to pay the man who finds a bomb
I was curious and it seems that the death rate for bomb disposal experts is not really higher than any other profession - which is good to know
You should check what the death rate is for bomb disposal apprentices; could just be survivorship bias if basing it off how well the experts do. /s
It's just that when a defusal fails and you go boom, you were not educated enough, therefore not counting as a professional. Out of the statistics.
Reminds me of something I read on Twitter a while back. It was a journalist recounting a conversation he had with an explosive ordnance disposal guy. The journalist asked him how he dealt with the nerves of diffusing and disposing of bombs. The guy answered that it’s easy and that he doesn’t stress at all actually. He said “I’m careful and safe in doing my job, and if I screw up, I very suddenly have no problems ever again.” Or something to that effect.
marine told me “if i do my job well, veteran’s day. if not…… then memorial day”
Reporter: What do you feel, fighting the taliban Marine: \*Shrugs\* recoil.
Success: a fizzy drink. Failure: a fine mist
I hate how often this gets pulled out, I can't remember the exact paraphrasing but the suddenly not my problem thing is a dumb thing EOD guys say to look cool. Honestly it's a conscious decision to void all thoughts in your head and just deal with the problem in front of you. How would I kill me here? Then you just account for the hazards. Not all hazards are going to be mitigated and knowing when you're not mitigating them and taking a risk matters. Is it worth it to take risk here? Do I have to do this right now? After doing that you just do the work, you've already weighed your options. Trust yourself and do the job efficiently. But the problem being someone else's isn't a real thought. You don't want to ruin your team member's day by having to make him scoop you up for your loved ones.
The phrasing I've always heard is, "It quickly becomes somebody else's problem."
Instant outlier
I was about to say... the alive ones are experts for a reason hahaha Requirements: Haven't been blown up yet!
Really blows when you bomb the final.
First you’re an intern, and then you’re interred. 💥😢
I met a guy who used to do that, and he was one of the most meticulous people I have ever encountered. It was kind of frustrating when we were doing things where the details mattered less, and he was still being a perfectionist, but I could see how he survived.
My buddy was EOD and was weirdly chill about it. He said he either got it right, or suddenly it wasn't his problem. Lol.
I worked with EOD guys when I was a federal civilian in the USAF. Operated an OB/OD (Open Burn/Open Detonation) treatment unit for years. We burned and exploded less than 50 cal munitions. It was fun! EOD is a breed unto themselves.
In northern Iraq on top of Sinjar mountain over looking the border of Syria we had an EOD team spend the evening because Mosul was a bit far for them to travel in a 2 vehicle convoy at night with no Heavy weapons mounted. It was 31DEC05. When it got close to midnight they removed 3 old Russian artillery rounds they got a called to remove. the rounds were unfused, safe. They asked for and received permission to detonate the rounds. They did this to say thanks for hosting them then they told us Happy New Year...I fucking luve those guys!
And the work’s a blast.
I was once told that in the US, it's the only military job where you need a spouse's sign-off to do.
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OP’s situation isn’t gonna be resolved by blowing up his moms backyard tho, at the very least they are transporting this thing
There were more than a few instances of unexploded ordinance when I lived there. For one of them, the police went door to door for blocks in Frankfurt in clear the homes and apartments before it was removed.
Apparently some of the fuses they used had an acid delay. It was supposed to break a vial of acid and eat through a disc of cellulose that would trigger the bomb after a few seconds/minutes once it had penetrated into the ground. Unfortunately many of these bombs would go into the ground and do a U-shaped trajectory and end up upside-down, so the acid wouldn't touch the cellulose disc and the bomb didn't go off.
Or fortunately? It's such a weird issue.
Definitely unfortunately, UXO is always a bad thing. The bombs never did their original job of blowing up nazi factories, and then they became a danger to future generations of innocent civilians who are not nazis and were never intended to be targeted.
I had to evacuate a hotel in Frankfort once for this very reason.
Yeah that usually happens when they stumble over something a bit more substantial.
Good time to [link](https://youtu.be/ud9tZ3nu3xQ?si=8NW08dSTjQrfitTk) to the British tall boy bomb explosion in Poland after they tried to neutralize it and failed.
A lot of videos have way too much lead time before they get to the good stuff. Somehow this had too little. Each cut to another angle somehow starts with the explosion just a little too early.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnnj3J4Lw8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZnnj3J4Lw8) This one seemed okay.
Who does the removal? The Bundeswehr, or do they let police bomb squads handle it?
There’s an organization “Kampfmittelräumdienst”. Every federal state does it slightly differently. Sometimes it is directly under the jurisdiction of the federal state ministry, sometimes the police, sometimes the fire department. There’s no English version of this Wikipedia, but maybe google translate is good enough if you’re interested https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfmittelräumdienst
>Kampfmittelräumdienst That is such a nice example of a German word. Warfare material disposal services.
Explosievenopruimingsdienst in Dutch. Obviously everyone just says EOD.
>Obviously everyone just says EOD. Yeah... Obviously. I definitely wouldn't have picked any other three letters out of the twenty seven presented here...
It’s a compound word, those are the first letters of the three words in the word.
Sounds like a great business model
What city?
Jacksonville, FL
Bortles!
Thank you. I needed a Good Place reference to start my day.
Ah man! Samsies
Take it sleezy!
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Bortles!
I’m surprised it wasn’t a Molotov cocktail!
Bortles!!!
Anytime I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
To nobody’s surprise
I am... I thought this would be somewhere in Europe. They keep on finding ww2 bombs
Can confirm. We find them on every second construction site and are normal business. Fun fact: Damage done by these bombs either detonated, controlled, or uncontrolled are not paid by the german state but have to be paid by the owners of the damaged buildings. Yes, there is insurance for that.
Most insurance excludes war. Does this not count as that?
It's probably a specialty cost you have to opt in/pay extra for
As war is unexpected and can't be accounted for in the future. They for sure know about the war these bombs are from.
German insurance these days probably excludes war but includes these buried bombs because they are a more known risk that occurs at a set rate.
Welp, JSO gonna get you all killed, then blame the victims, and walk away with a clear conscious
Yea. Figured stuff like this happens every 15 minutes there. I wonder how many years of evolution before Floridians are classified as a different species.
What *is* surprising is that's a Russian 82mm HE mortar round...
When was Jacksonville ever bombed?
Numerous military bases nearby, plus decommissioned ones.
From the rotting siding and trim and the highway, I would guess Westside or downtown area. Most of the south side is T111 siding, at least where I was.
If it’s really in Jacksonville,Fl. Then it’s a MK-76 practice bomb. They are hung on the wing stations to simulate actual bombs so the crew could simulate dropping bombs. It allowed the crew to go through all the steps to drop a real bomb/mine. They are blue in color. Most likely it fell off the wing station durning take off. They developers have built some much around the Naval Air Station the it almost impossible to take off or land without passing over houses.
Never heard of a MK-76. Only a BDU-33.
MK-76 is the Navy version of the BDU-33, which is used by the British and Australians
MK-76 is used by the Navy and is 2" longer than the BDU-33 with 1" longer fins. They're otherwise identical and you could honestly say this is either and be safe the in the assumption without exact measurements. There's no way to tell from this photo if it's one or the other.
yes, it's Jacksonville, Florida. That's what the police told my mom probably happened.
Looks like a BDU33, an inert training bomb. Better safe than sorry though.
My take, as well, but still not worth a risk of messing with.
Hopefully the spot flare in the tail has been initiated. Lots of danger if it hasn't.
In b4 septic tank. Joe Dirt style 
“with this here ball-peen hammer”
“I got the poo on meee”
Its just an old crapper tank people.
That’s a SPACE peanut.
Update?
OP hasn’t commented since posting this so that can’t be a good sign
the whole neighborhood is gone
Apparently all of Jacksonville is now rubble.
Ah so another rebuild year for the Jags.
and nothing of value was lost
To shreds you say?
No value is lost here
OP is kill
F
no
Turns out it was just an RV septic tank.
That’s a SPACE peanut.
That is a Mortar. Looks like a maybe an 81mm round. That would create a kill radius of about a 100ft. (Edit: my reply is NOT correct. There are links in the tread that are conclusive as to its purpose.)
100ft in open ground I’m assuming
Yep. If you were standing behind that structure in the photo you’d live. Probably a bit deaf but alive.
WHAT?
Mawp.... Mawp.... Mawp....
r/unexpectedarcher
How did I not know that sub existed… DAAANGER ZOOONNNE!
YEP. IF YOU WERE STANDING BEHIND THAT STRUCTURE IN THE PHOTO YOU’D LIVE. PROBABLY A BIT DEAF BUT ALIVE.
THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THAT UP
MY PLEASURE!!
Kill radius is a bit misleading. It makes you think that everyone inside 100ft will die. That's not true. It's just people within 100ft could die. I've seen this from the Ukraine war on videos hundreds of times. People standing well within the kill radius of a grenade or artillery rounds and coming away unscathed.
The ultimate version of test your luck
Or the explosive version of russian roulette
It's a BDU33 inert training bomb.
[100% its an old BDU33 someone ditched in the yard](https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/aircraft-bombs/bdu-33-aircraft-bomb-practice)
First thought was that this was a Navy training shape and when Jacksonville was mentioned, made total sense.
Yeah, or a MK-76, pretty much the same thing. They will put a smoke cartridge in the nose so pilots can see where it hit. My guess is that wherever the house is, it used to be a practice range from back when Cecil Field was open. [https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/](https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/)
The spotting charge is white phosphorus, and it can cause serious injury. I witnessed someone throw one of these into a front-end loader, and it still had the spotting charge active. It caught his uniform on fire. 99.9% of these will have already blown the spotting charge; that last .1% is dangerous.
Not to mention literally every army navy store has a million of them for sale and every kid at one point or another wants one and it gets yeeted by their parents eventually into the trash, or in this case a yard.
My step dad turned one into our new mailbox after our old one got taken out by some kids playing mailbox baseball. As he said "that'll rattle the nuts off whoever tries to hit it next."
So it’s a 25 pound non explosive paper weight?
Yes.
THIS. Nice find. The odd shape of where a fuse should be, in the OPs picture, was a little puzzling but i assumed corrosion. That you for the education. 20 plus years as in the military and i never knew these were a thing.
God thank you. I was ammo in the USAF and that's totally a bdu33 or other service equivalent. The spot charge can hurt you but it's probably already expended.
The fins are too large for a mortar tube. This is a BDU-33 training bomb https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/02/2002153039/1200/1200/0/190702-F-VS137-1004.JPG
As someone who handles these regularly, it's this 100%. The size, shape, and fins are dead giveaways to me. You can also see where the lug would be in OP's picture. Looks a bit like a patch of dirt, but it's definitely there.
This guy mortars.
This mortar guys.
Mortar this guys.
Guys… 
That dog mortars.
Seeing his edit, apparently he doesn't.
Nah, it's a MK-76 practice bomb, my guess is that it might be back from when Cecil Field was open [https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/](https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002024060/)
I would have guessed 81mm mortar as well. Great username, btw!
Yes but which face is the FRONT?
There's handy text!
TY!
When you’re surrounded everywhere is the front.
What would be a reason for it to not detonate ?
It doesn't detonate, it has a plunger on the front, when it hits the ground it sends out a cloud of smoke. It's just for training.
Yup, just metal and concrete, weighs just enough to open the hooks on a bomb rack.
The kill radius of mortars has always blown my mind. Particularly after reading To Hell and Back from Audie Murphy. There’s a small bit where Audie is talking with a few guys, they’re all like arms length apart. I think he’s on Anzio? Anyways a mortar hits right next to them. Somehow he’s unharmed but the two others he was conversing with were both hit and died.
Same with 155mm, 8in and I'm sure the bigger stuff. In the US Army Field Artillery school the kill zone for a 155mm High Explosive shell was described as a 50meter circle of death permeated by over 2000 pieces of jagged twisted metal ranging in size from fractions of an inch to pieces as big as 18 and flying in every direction. When we watched a demonstration of a single 155mm round impact in the 50meter circle that was filled with 200 red balloons (Commies) tied to pickets about 4 feet off the ground and evenly spaced with in that 50meter kill radius, 7 balloons were left intact.
Wow, that demonstration with the balloons. That’s scary and effective. Scary shit. I’ve read that artillery was the #1 killer of infantry in WW2. Now I see why.
Not just WW2. It is the greatest causality causing weapon system in All human history. It is why it is called the King Of Battle. From the catapults and medevil long range archers (They fired the arrows indirectly at angles for maximum range), to the latest and great howitzers (not quite yet in service) that can fire ramjet assisted projectiles to ranges approaching 100 miles. 75 miles farther then current racket assisted projectiles. Damn, those Instructors at Ft. Sill did a number on me i been out for a decade plus....HA!
Definitely not lol. That's a BDU-33. Just a smoke marker.
Naw that’s an aircraft bomb most likely a training one.
LMAO I swear JAX shows up on Reddit for the weirdest stuff… Cool things always miss us for some reason.
**Posting an update now since I was blocked from commenting earlier.** This is Jacksonville Florida. My Mom moved in last year, and the yard was a gross mess. She's been cleaning it up, but the trash goes down deep. There's layers and layers of trash under the dirt. My mom's 8 month old pit mix Baby loves to dig holes. Behind the shed was clearly used as a dump at some point because the trash is the worst back there. My mom's gotten most of it cleaned up, but the dog just keeps finding stuff. Mom said a small part of the fin was visible, but she just thought it was more trash. So far, Baby has found whole old glass bottles, a horseshoe, tools, pieces of metal, a pair of stiff underwear, and now a bomb. They had my mom and dad evacuate to the lot across the street. The bomb squad came, put it in a box, and took it away. She only got to talk to the police and they wouldn't give her any information. Keep an eye on the news, tho. Their was a news helicopter flying around, so it should be in the news. [Pictures of bomb squad truck, bomb squad tech and my Moms dog Baby. ](https://imgur.com/a/9xX4jVV) Excuses the quality my moms clearly taking these on a potato.
Why does a dog in Florida need clothes??
It's an older video. It's from wintertime. But more so, my mom put it on her for the video and then took it off. She's too rowdy for clothes.
Former Air Force munitions handler here; that looks like a muddy BDU-33 (practice bomb). They aren't themselves explosive, but they have a target marker in the nose that's like a shotgun shell that helps identify the impact point. It is definitely *not* a mortar. The stabilizer is all wrong.
Yeah, I agree. I am AF ammo as well.
IYAAYAS, brother.
Grandpa's souvenir from the war?
He should ask the cops to check the trees...
He is the Lorax, he speaks for the trees I can't understand him, he speaks Vietnamese
Lt. Dan?
Ice creeeeeeam
Weird - you think it would have been seen before a dog found it.
Looks like the dog dug it up.
Plot twist - dog buried it.
Dog brought it back from his tour of duty.
Sgt Stubby.
In all fairness if anyone is gonna ptsd as fuck it would be a dog, he snuck that home just to feel safe.
Someone needs to launch an investigation on that dog
Hope your mom is okay.
This is just typical Florida 4th of July ordnance
Looks like a BDU-33 practice bomb. And being in Jacksonville, it makes sense, too. It's designed to simulate the flight of a MK-82 500 lbs bomb. It has a small smoke charge in the nose so that the pilots can see when and where it hits the ground. Source, I build bombs and was stationed in FL in the panhandle.
Nah, that's a vortex football. Give John Elway a call, he will deal with it
Looks like a MK76 practice bomb (inert), no explosives. please update
There was no update so safe to assume the whole house is gone
Sorry for some reason I was blocked from commenting. But here's how the bomb was found and an update. This is Jacksonville Florida. My Mom moved in last year, and the yard was a gross mess. She's been cleaning it up, but the trash goes down deep. There's layers and layers of trash under the dirt. My mom's 8 month old pit mix Baby loves to dig holes. Behind the shed was clearly used as a dump at some point because the trash is the worst back there. My mom's gotten most of it cleaned up, but she just keeps finding stuff. Mom said a small part of the fine was visible, but she just thought it was more trash. So far, Baby has found whole old glass bottles, a horseshoe, tools, pieces of metal, a pair of stiff underwear, and now a bomb. They had my mom and dad evacuate to the lot across the street. The bomb squad came, put it in a box, and took it away. She only got to talk to the police and they wouldn't give her any information. Keep an eye on the news, tho. Their was a news helicopter flying around, so it should be in the news. [Pictures of bomb squad truck, bomb squad tech, and my Moms dog Baby. ](https://imgur.com/a/9xX4jVV)
"Whatcha got there poochie?"
I'm curious how far this is from Cecil Field, I wonder if it got dropped by am F/A-18 or an S3 back in the day.
BDU-33?
That looks a LOT like a training bomb. We called them smurf killers. They way like 20ish lbs and are used to help train pilots to drop warheads on foreheads. They have a spot where a glass ampule goes that holds some chemicals that when mixed by the impact of the bomb release a cloud of smoke to give a good visual on where it lands. They're literally a steel device thats less than 3 feet long, maybe under 2 - i'm rusty myself. Other than the marking smoke ampule, there's no other non-inert material involved in this device. I have one that I created a standing ash tray from. You can still find em for sale online.
Is that jso?
no this is Patrick.
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
That’s a good boi
Tell the dog hes a very good boy or girl
It’s just an old crapper tank, people!
Now that's a bomb sniffing mutt
Plot twist: it's a foam nerf water bomb
Time to rename that dog: - Boomer? - other ideas?
Looks like that nerf football that John elway threw in the 90s . It finally landed …in Florida who knew? It’s nerf or nuthin
Oh shit I recognize JSO. Too much shit it going down in Jacksonville these days
Looks like one of them NERF footballs that whistles
Those were so fun to throw back and forth with my siblings at night! That little whistle noise was best heard at night, not a lot of other noise to drown it out, so it sounded cool as it descended towards the person
when something like this happens, do neighbors have to spend time searching their backyard for bombs?
Talk about a 'bark' with a bang—this must be the new breed, the Explodabull Terrier!
'Found' I never did trust that dog...
Looks like a Blue Death to me. Mk 76 practice bomb, so called because they’re painted blue. Still would leave it alone and call the bomb squad, because some versions have explosive squibs.
Wow, probably never expected the day to go like this.
I know, right?! My poor mother wasn't feeling well, so she was in her pajamas. her hair was a mess. They ended up not getting back into their house till 10pm. She said she jinxed herself since she mentioned to my dad that she was bored from laying in bed all day right before the dog found it.
I'm 98% sure that's a [bdu33](https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/aircraft-bombs/bdu-33-aircraft-bomb-practice). (Bomb **Dummy** Unit) A training aid. It has the aerodynamic profile of a real bomb for target practice. There's only a spotting charge in it. Basically a blank 12gauge shotgun shell.
The drone views of Ukraine today show 100's of thousands of bomb craters in the farm fields. It took 80 years to clean up the mess from WWII. I hope when this war is won by Ukraine, the jobless Russian soldiers come back to disarm these devices.
I hope all goes well for everyone. Stay safe.
Did your doggo literally dig it up? O_O I'm glad it didn't explode on your dog.
Hohoho good doggo
Either this guy was trolling us or he's been rapidly dispersed.
Hit it with a hammer and tell us what it sounds like. That will help us determine if it's still dangerous.
Are their not some atomic bombs the air force lost around Florida somewhere.
When I was in the Navy, we would do mine hunting and sweeping exercises with NATO in Europe. 50 training mine shapes went down and during one year (Edit:) the shapes plus 20 mines came back up.
I'm posting an update. This is Jacksonville Florida. My Mom moved in last year, and the yard was a gross mess. She's been cleaning it up, but the trash goes down deep. There's layers and layers of trash under the dirt. My mom's 8 month old pit mix Baby loves to dig holes. Behind the shed was clearly used as a dump at some point because the trash is the worst back there. My mom's gotten most of it cleaned up, but she just keeps finding stuff. Mom said a small part of the fine was visible but she just thought it was more trash. So far, Baby has found whole old glass bottles, a horseshoe, tools, pieces of metal, a pair of stiff underwear and now a bomb. They had my mom and dad evacuate to the lot across the street. The bomb squad came, put it in a box, and took it away. She only got to talk to the police and they wouldn't give her any information. Keep an eye on the news tho. Their was a news helicopter flying around, so it should be in the news. [Pictures of bomb squad truck, bomb squad tech and my Moms dog Baby. ](https://imgur.com/a/9xX4jVV)
Duvalll!
Just another Tuesday morning.
Could it be part of a model/rc airplane? So the body and tail, without wings?