Ignoramus31410 wrote:
These guys are pounding a knife into an artillery shell with an axe,
pretty hard. Removing a fuze, or what? It does not look like the fuze
is there.

http://www.pravda.ru/photo/album/17239/4/
I'm pretty sure that ring un screws and he is using the
knife as a drift punch to try and un-screw it.
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