Russian

[Tuney]

Picked this Russian 152mm up today and stood it next to my 122mm for size comparisons

 

[Eggburt1969]

Picked this Russian 152mm up today and stood it next to my 122mm for size comparisons

Looks to be a 152 mm 53-BR-540 (53-БР-540) armour piercing high explosive tracer (APHE-T). Its short form designation would be BR-540 (БР-540), which is what most people would call it.

 

[M8owner]

My current understanding is that projectile is very hard to find. Some of the 122mm AP have made it as far as the USA, but I have yet to see the 152mm over here.

 

[Tuney]

My current understanding is that projectile is very hard to find. Some of the 122mm AP have made it as far as the USA, but I have yet to see the 152mm over here.

This is also the only one I’ve seen in the UK .At a guess it’s around 50kg in weight so I bet to get one to the USA would cost a fortune as well

 

[Eggburt1969]

This is also the only one I’ve seen in the UK .At a guess it’s around 50kg in weight so I bet to get one to the USA would cost a fortune as well

Just checked a 1944 Soviet manual, and the weight of the projectile is listed as 48.78 kg filled and fuzed.

So yours should be less than that as if there's no MD-7 fuze (≈130-140 g) and no substitute added for the normal ≈1.2 kg A-IX-2 high explosive filling.

 

[Tuney]

Just checked a 1944 Soviet manual, and the weight of the projectile is listed as 48.78 kg filled and fuzed.

So yours should be less than that as if there's no MD-7 fuze (≈130-140 g) and no substitute added for the normal ≈1.2 kg A-IX-2 high explosive filling.

You are right that mine is empty and has no fuse in the base just a hole but wrong about the weight see pic there is a towel on the scale also so deduct 1kg

 

[Eggburt1969]

You are right that mine is empty and has no fuse in the base just a hole but wrong about the weight see pic there is a towel on the scale also so deduct 1kg

I'm not wrong about the weight... the Russian manual is Well Russian and Yugoslav manuals are I should say.

 

[Tuney]

I'm not wrong about the weight... the Russian manual is Well Russian and Yugoslav manuals are I should say.

After taking the weight of the towel off the weight is then around what you said but not full with fuse but empty and no fuse

 

[Eggburt1969]

Well, there's supposed to be a inert training version of the live projectile, the 53-BR-540-IN (53-БР-540-ИН), but I don't really have any info on it.

What's at the back end? A hollow cavity, which has a threaded upper area for a fuze, or something else?

 

[Tuney]

Well, there's supposed to be a inert training version of the live projectile, the 53-BR-540-IN (53-БР-540-ИН), but I don't really have any info on it.

What's at the back end? A hollow cavity, which has a threaded upper area for a fuze, or something

It has threads for the fuse and is hollow so far up . I was told the fuse was removed and left out when it was made inert

Well, there's supposed to be a inert training version of the live projectile, the 53-BR-540-IN (53-БР-540-ИН), but I don't really have any info on it.

What's at the back end? A hollow cavity, which has a threaded upper area for a fuze, or something else?

pics of the base showing threads where the fuse was removed