HE-ER BB shell for 57 mm S60

[Tony Williams]

The pic shown below is of a projectile on the Yugoimport stand at DSEi 2013. It is clearly an aerodynamically advanced HE Extended Range Base Bleed shell for the old S60 AA and naval automatic cannon, a weapon which has recently been greatly modernised and is now being offered both in a naval mounting and in a turret for light AFVs.

Can anyone provide any information about this projectile? Performance and any other data would be useful, plus is this in service with anyone?

Thanks for any help.

 

[EOD]

Interesting! Did they give the achievable max range for this design (in comparison to traditional ammo)? Did they have show a cutaway?

The Russians developed a guided projectile for their modified S-60s which are also intended for use as a gun for ICVs. I wonder if these will be adopted.

 

[Tony Williams]

No, there was no data about this, and no sectioned version. I attach a pic of the stand display below.

I understood that the laser-guided shell which was publicised some years ago was only a paper proposal - I've only ever seen one drawing of it. Has it actually been made?

 

[EOD]

I have never seen a real one but that does not mean much. Only future will show how far this project made it or will make it.

 

[VuleM]

one photo from my collection