This is a cutaway of a very unique French shaped-charge projectile. One major disadvantage of a shaped charge in a spinning projectile is that the centrifugal force of the spin tends to break apart and degrade the jet and slug. This is the OCC 105 61 projectile and they have mounted the fuze, shaped charge trumpet liner and explosive filler on a double ball-bearing track so that the projectile body spins around a stationary warhead on firing. The markings on the projectile are: 105 T 59 1-ECP-62. The ECP is Ecole Centrale de Pyrotechnie de Bourges, the manufacurer. Also there is HT in a circle and double lightening bolts and a "V", indicating a shaped charge warhead. The HT is the explosive filler, Hexolite (Hexogene and TNT). The concept was a good one, but the round never an extended life because the cost of manufacture was so much. Still an interesting cutaway.
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French 105mm HEAT Projectile
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