INERT DEACTIVATED. WW2, 1941 Dated, British No 68 AT Mk III (Anti Tank) HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Fin Stabilised Hollow Charged Rifle Grenade. Sn - 21303 INERT DEACTIVATED. WW2, 1941 Dated, British No 68 AT Mk III (Anti Tank) HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Fin Stabilised Hollow Charged Rifle Grenade. Sn - 21303 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. The grenade, Rifle No. 68 AT was a British anti-tank rifle grenade used during WW2. The No. 68 was an early form of shaped charge grenade, and has some claim to have been the first High Explosive, Anti-Tank (HEAT) device in use. The design of the warhead was simple and was capable of penetrating 52mm (2 inches) of armour in 1940. The fuse of the grenade was armed by removing a pin in the tail which prevented the firing pin from flying forward. The grenade was launched from a rifle cup. The four fins gave it some stability in the air and, provided the grenade hit the target at the proper angle (90 degrees), the charge would be effective. The detonation occurred on impact, when a striker in the tail of the grenade overcame the resistance of a creep spring and was thrown forward into a stab detonator. The grenade is fired from the rifle via a No. 1 Mk.1 rifle bomb discharger cup that fits at the muzzle end of the rifle. This is a rare original WW2, 1941 dated HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) hollow charged No. 68 MK III AT rifle grenade. The grenade is made of die cast alloy with a die cat alloy gas check on the rear. Two of the fins have cast into them No 68 AT III 1941 (1941 date). The base of the body has the makers mark RMLC cast into it. The 68 anti-tank rifle grenade was displaced later in WW2 by improved weapons including the PIAT and other weapons. See ‘GRENADE’ British & Commonwealth Hand & Rifle Grenades, pages 151 – 154 by Rick Landers. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this