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Help with Identification please!

RogerKP

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blue shell.jpg This 13mm round has a strange case or "thimble" around the top of the projectile.There is no fuse - can anyone tell me anything about this capping? Should it have a hole in the nose? Basically, how did it work?
Thanks.
 
German 13mm MG131 incendiary (red) Tracer. The fuse is the primer 1465.
 

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Thanks, Rigby.
Can you tell me if there was also a yellow explosive version of this round?
Roger
 
The following cartridges were available for the MG131.
HEI-T
HEI-Dim Tracer
API
AP-T
AP-Dim Tracer
AP TP-T
AP TP-Dim Tracer
HE TP
HE TP-T
HE TP-T
and your Incendiary.
 

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