Unknown Aden-Defa

[blu45bob]

French, 30mm,Aden-Defa case

Head stamp, 30 550 AA
13 TE 80

Found at YPG.

 

[Tony Williams]

30 550 (more commonly now 30M550) is the French designation of the DEFA/GIAT/Nexter revolver cannon firing 30 x 113B ammo (30M540 fired 30 x 97B ammo). TE is the code for DEFA's Toulouse factory. Don't know about AA.

 

[blu45bob]

Tony, Thank you for the quick response and the information. When found it was rusted pretty good and as you can see right where the head stamp was.

 

[Dandebur]

Hello,
Letters AA are for Air Air, that means for aerial fighting. Another cases are with the letters AS, Air Sol, that means for shooting from the aircraft to the ground. I think that on more recent cases this difference has disappeared.
Regards,
Dandebur.