But isn't that how you would likely cut it to get the core out? The drawings here: http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/thread...l=1#post282056 show the front and rear sections overlap and are locked together, I don't know how they were assembled at the time, I presume the front starts out larger and is then crushed down over the rear to trap the tungsten, but that's just guessing. The drawings do seem to match the cutaways here: http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/92274-17-pounder-APDS-T?p=261824&viewfull=1#post261824
If it hasn't been interfered with, what would keep the rear section and tracer from possibly separating in flight?
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