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  • 2,000 ft/s (610 m/s). The M54 used a shell-destroying tracer in addition to the point-detonating fuze. The tracer had a burning time of three seconds at...
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    Tracer ammunition, or Tracers, are bullets or cannon-caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. When fired, the...
    24 KB (2,858 words) - 14:55, 17 April 2024
  • M-940 20mm MPT-SD Round (category Artillery shells)
    The M940 MPT-SD (multi-purpose tracer, self-destruct) shell is a 20×102 mm round produced by General Dynamics primarily for an anti-aircraft role. It has...
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    bombshell[citation needed], but "shell" has come to be unambiguous in a military context. A shell can hold a tracer. All explosive- and incendiary-filled...
    64 KB (8,508 words) - 22:23, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shell plc
    Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on...
    216 KB (19,326 words) - 22:18, 26 May 2024
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    with a timer self-destruct and/or tracer (or glowtracer). There were also different types of high-explosive shell fillings with either standard Pentrit...
    36 KB (2,612 words) - 05:02, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940 (72-K)
    Pronounced gun vibration and tracer cups detaching from shells were found during field tests, which prompted the development of new shells without such defects...
    35 KB (4,975 words) - 19:12, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ordnance QF 2-pounder
    most serious shortcomings of the 2-pdr was the lack of a high-explosive shell resulting from the British doctrine, especially when the 2-pdr was the main...
    27 KB (2,804 words) - 15:30, 5 April 2024
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    shells contained flechettes. The result was the 105 mm M546 APERS-T (anti-personnel-tracer) round, first used in the Vietnam War in 1966. The shell consisted...
    33 KB (4,552 words) - 17:26, 3 April 2024
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    fitted with a tracer, a "-T" suffix is added (APC-T). An armour-piercing shell must withstand the shock of punching through armour plating. Shells designed...
    41 KB (5,312 words) - 03:37, 17 April 2024
  • naval and anti-tank guns. The configuration consists of an armour-piercing shell fitted with a stubby armour-piercing cap (AP cap) for improved penetration...
    11 KB (1,343 words) - 23:02, 9 May 2024
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    Panzergranate 39 (category Artillery shells)
    iron Shell diameter at driving band: 77.4 mm (3.05 in) Shell body diameter: 74.5 mm (2.93 in) Fuze: Bd.Z. 5103 Type: base fuze Weight with tracer unit:...
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    Ammunition (section Shells)
    to have a specialized effect on a target, such as armor-piercing shells and tracer ammunition, used only in certain circumstances. Ammunition is commonly...
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  • fired solid-steel armour-piercing-tracer (AP-T), high-explosive-tracer and high-explosive incendiary-tracer shells. The initial AP-T round was the Type...
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    not capable of holding incendiary or tracer parts. There were also different types of high-explosive mine shell fillings with either standard Pentrit...
    15 KB (1,120 words) - 23:40, 27 May 2024
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    meters from launch, to prevent casualties on the ground. It also contains a tracer. The Centurion has a Ku-band (AN/TPQ-36) active electronically scanned array...
    13 KB (1,084 words) - 17:16, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
    Diagrams showing basic design and color-coding of British HE/incendiary, tracer and HE/incendiary/tracer shells for the 20 mm Oerlikon gun...
    27 KB (3,189 words) - 19:27, 28 February 2024
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    tracer reduced to 750 metres (820 yd) (A3), with a pistol powder charge (A4), and with improved ballistics (A5). Round, 7.62mm Tracer, L45A1: Tracer round...
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  • Thumbnail for Incendiary ammunition
    charge intended to ignite explosives within the shell. Although not intended to start fires, tracer bullets can have a mild incendiary effect. This is...
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  • Thumbnail for 75 mm gun M2–M6
    capped high explosive with tracer (APCBC-HE-T) shell. The blunt armor-piercing cap, made of a softer metal, helped to prevent shell shatter at higher velocities...
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