It would make a nice boom if you detonated it...
Sure..
You could drop it pointy-end down and see if it bounces.
Or something..
You lose something out on maneuvers?
I'm guessing they are a bit more sophisticated than a shot gun shell. We used to take the pellets out of shotgun shells, tape a wrist-rocket pellet to the bottom primer and lob them up in the air. When they hit the pavement then would go “bang”.
But yeah - best to leave that stuff alone. I seem to recall a Freeper, or perhaps it was just an article, where they were cleaning out the house when the old man dad. The paperweight on his desk was a live shell from WWII! Although like you said - probably not a huge deal. No different than the cartridges rolling around in many of our desk drawers.
Tank rounds are fired using less than 9 volts of electricity. Not super dangerous, but I have fired them using a small battery. Makes a huge explosion. They claim even static electricity can cause one to detonate.
hit it with a hammer- tell me if anything happens- if we do not hear back from you we will assume something did :)
It's the only thing to do.
Since when do tanks fire “missiles”?
Maybe someone was making an IED on the tracks and was spooked off. Seems unlikley a live round fell off a train.
They interrupted an IED being planted?
In the Tour de France, yesterday’s stage (Wednesday) went through the area of the 1915-6 Somme Battlefield. Every year some more unexploded ordinance from WW1 & WW2 is found, sometimes explosively. Natural weathering and erosion can bring buried items to where a plow can hit it.
As for hitting it with a hammer, I can recall some WW2 Cartoons and training films that appear to advise against such efforts.
“...found no other ordinances...”
Well, thank God for that — Pieces of legislation randomly lying about can be quite dangerous. Editors used to know the difference between the two words even if their writers didn’t.