All artillery ammunition
Thirty high-explosive line items span 76 mm gun rounds through to 155 mm gun-howitzer projectiles. The designation families are M55 and M70, M82 and the M63 series, M1 and M02, 462A1, TF-462A1 and M10, M86P1, M79 and M93, M88 and OF-540, and M03, M19, M101 and M107. Where the source states the loading, the 100 mm entries are fixed rounds and the 76 mm, 105 mm and larger entries semi-fixed or separate-loaded; nine records are listed as projectiles with no loading stated. Filling is TNT in most records, with RDX and aluminised RDX where the source records them.
A fixed 100 mm round for the 100 mm antitank guns T-12 and MT-12, consisting of an assembled steel cartridge case with full propellant charge and a TNT-filled high-explosive projectile M82 fitted with a UTIU M85P1 fuze and a No12 tracer, intended for direct and indirect fire against personnel, light fortifications and unarmoured or lightly armoured vehicles.
Fixed 100 mm high-explosive tank and coastal gun round with TNT filling, maximum range 20618 m.
Fixed 100 mm high-explosive round, M63 pattern with increased TNT charge of 1.48 kg.
Fixed 100 mm high-explosive round filled with aluminised RDX for increased blast effect.
Extended-range 105 mm high-explosive projectile with 2.3 kg TNT, reaching 16200 m from the howitzer M56/33.
Extended-range base-bleed 105 mm high-explosive projectile reaching 18000 m from the 105 mm howitzer M56/33.
Separate-loaded 105 mm TNT-filled HE M1 round with point-detonating fuze for 105 mm howitzers M56, M2A1 and M4.
Separate-loaded 105 mm HE M1 round for the 105 mm howitzer M56/33, with 507 m/s muzzle velocity and 11900 m maximum range.
Semi-fixed 105 mm HE round fitted with the UB M12 proximity fuze for airburst effect, for the howitzer M56/33.
Extended-range base-bleed 122 mm high-explosive projectile for the D-30J howitzer.
Extended-range hollow-base 122 mm high-explosive projectile for the D-30J howitzer.
Separate-loaded 122 mm TNT-filled high-explosive round for D-30, D-30J and 2S1, fired with reduced or full charge.
Separate-loaded 122 mm high-explosive round in the short M38 cartridge case, maximum range 11800 m.
Separate-loaded 125 mm tank gun high-explosive round for indirect and direct fire, maximum range 12220 m.
Extended-range base-bleed 130 mm high-explosive projectile with full M93A propellant charge for the M46 gun.
Separate-loaded 130 mm high-explosive round for the 130 mm gun M46, reaching 27400 m with the full charge.
Separate-loaded 130 mm HE M79 A1 round for the M46 gun, with 930 m/s full-charge muzzle velocity and 26400 m maximum range.
A separately loaded 152 mm round combining a TNT-filled high-explosive projectile M88 with a reduced variable propellant charge M77, fired from the 152 mm gun-howitzer D-20 and the 152 mm gun-howitzer M1937 against personnel, light fortifications and unarmoured or lightly armoured vehicles.
Separate-loaded 152 mm TNT-filled high-explosive round for the gun-howitzer D-20, maximum range 17400 m.
Separate-loaded 155 mm extended-range base-bleed HE round with MC zone 10 charge, maximum range 38000 m.
Separate-loaded 155 mm extended-range boat-tail HE round with MC zone 10 charge, maximum range 29000 m.
Extended-range full-bore 155 mm high-explosive projectile with 8.7 kg TNT, reaching 32200 m on charge zone 10.
Extended-range full-bore base-bleed 155 mm high-explosive projectile reaching 41100 m on charge zone 10.
Standard-profile 155 mm high-explosive projectile with modular MC zone 8 charge, maximum range 18400 m.
155 mm TNT-filled high-explosive projectile with point-detonating fuze for M198, FH70, FH77, M109 A2 and GHN 45 howitzers.
A separate-loaded 155 mm round pairing a high-explosive projectile M101 with an MC zone 9 propellant charge, intended for the destruction of personnel, light fortifications and unarmoured or lightly armoured vehicles.
Separate-loaded 155 mm HE round pairing the M107 projectile with the M119A1 charge for M109A1 and M198 howitzers.
Separate-loaded 155 mm HE round pairing the M107 projectile with the reduced M4A2 charge, range 14600 to 15030 m.
Separate-loaded 76 mm high-explosive round with TNT filling for the 76 mm gun M48B1, maximum range 8750 m.
Separate-loaded 76 mm HE M70 round with TNT-filled projectile for the M48B1 gun, with 398 m/s muzzle velocity and 8750 m maximum range.
A tender annex identifies a high-explosive item by calibre and projectile designation, then by the propelling charge or charge zone it is paired with. The figures that follow are usually projectile mass, explosive charge mass, muzzle velocity, maximum range, mean maximum pressure of powder gases and the fuze designation. Several records add the cartridge case, the operating temperature band and the number of rounds per wooden case.
The families run M55 and M70 at 76 mm, M82 and the M63, M63P1 and M63P2 series at 100 mm, M1 and M02 at 105 mm, 462A1, TF-462A1 and M10 at 122 mm, M86P1 at 125 mm, M79, M79 A1 and M93 at 130 mm, M88 and OF-540 at 152 mm, and M03, M19, M88, M101 and M107 at 155 mm. Suffixes mark the change: P1 and P2 alter the filling, while ER, BB, HB and BT mark an altered ballistic body.
Most records give projectile mass, explosive charge mass, muzzle velocity, maximum range and the fuze designation, together with the weapon the source names. The extended-range 122 mm entries state charge and cartridge case data without a projectile mass, so each record should be read on its own terms.
The source lists a projectile together with the propelling charge paired with it. M107 appears with the M4A2 charge, with M119A1 and with an MC zone 8 charge, and each pairing carries its own muzzle velocity and maximum range, with a mean maximum pressure quoted on the M4A2 and M119A1 records, so they are catalogued separately.
