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2 pr AP and 2 pr APCBC
- Thread starter pzgr40
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Here are pics from the handbook for Tanks, Cruiser, dd 1939 wch shows the AP round for the QF 2 Pr, and fuze etc.
Cannot help with APCBC, as that nature postdates the publication. I think I posted the pics from the back of the Handbook some time since.
Hope that helps.
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Cannot help with APCBC, as that nature postdates the publication. I think I posted the pics from the back of the Handbook some time since.
Hope that helps.
Alan1
Technically those are SAP - Semi Armour Piercing as they have a filling. AP is purely kinetic..
Be careful with those 281 Armstrong base fuzes... they do not look like fuzes and have little in the way of safety. There were quite a number recovered from mantelshelves still live and in some instances were responsible for explosions..
Always be absolutely sure that any pointed projectile with a base plug is not a filled shell.. this has caught out quite a few EOD folk over the years...
Be careful with those 281 Armstrong base fuzes... they do not look like fuzes and have little in the way of safety. There were quite a number recovered from mantelshelves still live and in some instances were responsible for explosions..
Always be absolutely sure that any pointed projectile with a base plug is not a filled shell.. this has caught out quite a few EOD folk over the years...