Modern knockout power supply - please help.

Grossfater Muller 16-09-2008 13:16

Friends asked to find out - they brought a cartridge for examination, obviously a knockout ammunition, but they did not have the materials.
Perhaps there are experts here...

diameter 37.5
flange 45.5
height 34.8

The sleeve is black plastic with a rim, the capsule is a bullet, a cardboard wad with the inscription “1100 kgf”, smokeless gunpowder, the inscription on the bottom is “EZ 38”.

I would like to know the labeling and scope of application.
Thank you in advance.

wasserfall 19-09-2008 01:05


looks like a hefty rifle casing, about 15cm long, 30-40mm in diameter, cardboard wad, the casing itself is also cardboard, painted red, the tray has a metal rim, the capsule is chewed. Completely, without gaps, filled with strips of smokeless powder gunpowder 100 mm long (composition: falcon). This is unlikely to be hunting ammunition.

Grossfater Muller 19-09-2008 15:24

If it weren’t for the size, I would say that it’s a knockout charge for a mortar.
For an 82mm knockout, this is exactly what it looks like, only sized for 12 gauge.
Maybe for larger calibers, huh?

wasserfall 19-09-2008 16:44

I'm confused by the hunting powder inside. Is Sokol used by the military? The charge seemed to have been brought from the RHK.

Chatterbox 19-09-2008 19:00

quote: I'm confused by the hunting powder inside. Is Sokol used by the military? The charge seemed to have been brought from the RHK.

Bomb-tech 21-09-2008 22:04

quote: Originally posted by Chatterbox:

Used. For blank cartridges, expelling and transfer charges.


I have never seen "Falcon" in army products. For what you listed (except for blanks), various brands of black powder are used, and “Falcon” is smokeless single-base powder (nitrocellulose). By the way, wasserfall wrote “in composition - falcon”.
In general, according to the description, the charge is really similar to the expelling charge for a mortar mine - they are loaded with belt gunpowder. I will more definitely try to unsubscribe tomorrow, incl. and about the first post.
Questions for wasserfall:
- if it’s not a secret, how detailed was the composition of the gunpowder determined?
- what is RHC - is it not the Rezhevsk chemical plant?

Gray66 22-09-2008 11:16

quote: I have never seen "Falcon" in army products.

Blank cartridges 7.62x54 - used by Sokol. In appearance, 1 in 1. In the early 90s, I unloaded a couple of boxes of such cartridges and used gunpowder when loading 12-gauge cartridges. The properties were slightly weaker than hunting, so I had to increase the weight in 12 gauge by 0.2g. Perhaps some kind of “preservative” is used in the composition.

wasserfall 27-09-2008 01:16

RHC - Roshal Chemical Plant.
Sokol was made there. On the cans with it at the bottom, under the name it is also written РХ. The charge was brought straight from the gunpowder factory. The gunpowder in the cartridge looked like Sokol. My parents (who once worked at the Russian Chemical Chemical Plant), specialists in high-molecular compounds, confirmed my conclusion. I can attach a photo of the records, it seems to be left somewhere.

wasserfall 27-09-2008 01:19



The properties were slightly weaker than hunting, so I had to increase the weight in 12 gauge by 0.2g. Perhaps some kind of “preservative” is used in the composition.


Sokol is not very consistent from batch to batch; different weights are sometimes written on different cans (for 12 gauge, 2.0 or 2.3).

varban 27-09-2008 16:13

quote: Originally posted by Gray66:

Blank cartridges 7.62x54 - used by Sokol. In appearance, 1 in 1. In the early 90s, I unloaded a couple of boxes of such cartridges and used gunpowder when loading 12-gauge cartridges. The properties were slightly weaker than hunting, so I had to increase the weight in 12 gauge by 0.2g. Perhaps some kind of “preservative” is used in the composition.

Gunpowder KhPL P-80. X - to blank cartridges, Pl - lamellar, P - porous, 80 - 80 parts of potassium nitrate were added to 100 parts of the pyroxylin mixture, which was then washed out of the grains. Thus, P-80 means that the powder grain is approximately 40% porous.
Sokol is about the same, only it is made from higher-nitrogen pyroxylin.
Thus, gunpowder from unloaded blank cartridges mod. 30 year is more suitable for heavy shells, around 40 grams of shot. There won’t be much speed, but the pressure won’t jump and the shoulder will remain intact.

varban 27-09-2008 16:16

quote: Originally posted by wasserfall:
I’ll post here too, the question is similar. They brought strange ammunition (now discarded):
looks like a hefty rifle casing, about 15cm long, 30-40mm in diameter, cardboard wad, the casing itself is also cardboard, painted red, the tray has a metal rim, the capsule is chewed. Completely, without gaps, filled with strips of smokeless powder gunpowder 100 mm long (composition: falcon). This is unlikely to be hunting ammunition.

The main charge for a 120 mm mine.
Gunpowder - NBL-34. Nothing in common with Sokol - it is a high-energy dense ballistite of the simplest composition: colloxylin, nitroglycerin, centralite, oil. Only suitable for mortars

wasserfall 27-09-2008 17:36



nothing to do with Falcon


Do they look similar?

Gray66 28-09-2008 22:44

The one that I had to shake out of blank machine-gun cartridges one after another, even the smell is the same.
In 5.45 caliber blank cartridges, those with a plastic bullet, it looks very similar to Bars, but I haven’t tried shooting it from a gun.

wasserfall 28-09-2008 23:59

The cartridge case is filled with RX gunpowder; NBL-34 was not produced there.

Bomb-tech 29-09-2008 17:40

quote: The main charge for a 120 mm mine.
Gunpowder - NBL-34. Nothing in common with Sokol - it is a high-energy dense ballistite of the simplest composition: colloxylin, nitroglycerin, centralite, oil. Only suitable for mortars

Exactly.
"Falcon" is nitrocellulose powder, it does not contain nitroglycerin. The gunpowder in the main charge for the 120 mm mine is belt-shaped, light yellow-brown in color, and “Falcon”, for those who haven’t seen it, has grain in the form of rectangular plates, measuring somewhere up to 2x2 mm, gray-green in color.

varban 30-09-2008 01:33

> Do they look similar?

No, they are not similar. NBL is belt powder.
More or less similar to Sokol NBPl - flake gunpowder of the same composition. If it is also graphite, then in the dark you can confuse


Lamellar NB has strictly planar plates.
Both of them have plates that are more diamond-shaped than square.

The most important thing is that NB is almost transparent gunpowder with a yellowish[-brown] tint.

> The cartridge case is filled with RX gunpowder; NBL-34 was not produced there

The fact that NB was not produced at the Roshal plant is certain, since the plant does not produce nitroether and was never planned to do so.

wasserfall 02-10-2008 02:02

quote: Originally posted by varban:

This is serious - since Sokol is a pyroxylin (solvent-based) gunpowder, the plates after curing, soaking and drying turn out to be somewhat... uh... curly


I’ve never noticed anything like this with it... At least, this effect is absent at the manufacturer’s factory.

The gunpowder in the charge does not seem to be graphitized.

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