The photograph at the top of this post shows the nose of a 122-millimeter cargo rocket that carried a load of Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions on an ill-fated shot last year at the western Libyan city of Zintan. (Know your weapons.)

Why is it here? Because this was the delivery vehicle of the mystery submunition that the NYT’s At War blog has been trying, thus far without success, to identify and trace back to its manufacturer. The rocket landed on the city’s outskirts, striking the dirt before it had opened and dispensed with its cargo. It was found and excavated last August by an explosive ordnance disposal team.

The second photographs shows some of that team’s work. Inside the rocket, as you can see, were the submunitions. More soon on the NYT, with a report from the EOD team leader and what his inquiry thus far has led him to believe.  For the record, he, like everyone else, has not yet figured this out. “This is definitely a really strange one,” he said, a few minutes ago, via skype.

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