T233 40mm AP Experimental

[EODGUY]

OK, I found another drawing that baffles me. Anyone know what the background is of this round? There is no clue on any of the drawings and I have never seen anything like it.

 

[V40]

EG,

Try here:

http://www.combatindex.com/store/tech_man/Sample/Munitions_and_Demo/TM_9-1300-251-34_P.pdf

http://www.fbodaily.com/cbd/archive/1997/09(September)/02-Sep-1997/SPmsc005.htm

Look into Google.


V40

 

[EODGUY]

V40, Thanks, but not a fit. The drawing is dated 1958. I found a note that puts the round with the experimental Pivot gun. Now the problem is I know I have a thick report on the gun, but right now it is lost in my piles of papers. The report never showed the round for the gun.

 

[EOD]

It looks much like a round for a recoilless gun. The Germans developed a similar 55mm automatic aircraft gun in WWII, it was the MK 115.

 

[BOMBSaway1980]

M81A1 40MM APFSDS AMMUNITION