Ammo Identification

[dx315]

I bought this ammo several years ago at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot. Can anyone tell me about it such as country of manufacture and bullet weight?


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[Flying10uk]

If it's Russian language on the centre chest it could contain ammunition manufactured in 1985 because in Russian "R" is an abbreviation of year and it has R-85 in red stamped on it.

[Sentryduty]

This thread on an outside forum seems to be discussing ammunition that looks identical to your photo. I cannot comment on the accuracy of their discussion though.

http://www.iaaforum.org/forum3/viewt...&t=77&start=15

Seems it is Romanian 7.92 x 56mm Light ball with a mild steel core loaded in steel cases.

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Reading that thread as posted does make for an interesting supposed history on that particular ammunition.

[dx315]

Thank you Sentryduty. That was a very interesting thread. I bought the ammo sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s and never bothered to look it up. I think I will resist shooting it up after reading about it.

[Eaglelord17]

7.92 usually denotes 8mm Mauser in most countries.

[jonnyc]

100% Romanian light 7.92.

[Flying10uk]

Do/did Warsaw-Pack countries use Russian as a common language to mark equipment or was it marked with the language of the country that owned it, please?

[Sentryduty]

Most Warsaw Pact equipment and ammunition I have encountered was marked in Cyrillic with shorthand letters or codes for various meanings. I can't recall any examples where anything beyond that was on ammo crates, no big examples of written descriptions. However on some the Czech weapons I have handled, the documentation was in their own language.

Based on my experience I do not believe that the Warsaw pact mandated marking of common military goods in Russian only, however there may be someone with better information that contradicts that assessment.

[Eaglelord17]

Romanian is a Latin based language. Looking at the crate I do not see any Cyrillic writing which leads me to assume that the language is just abbreviations in Romanian.

Either way, militaries love there abbreviations, which can sometimes have multiple meanings for one abbreviation within the same military.

[jonnyc]

There was NO common East Bloc language. The only countries that used Cyrillic labeling were Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the USSR.........that's it.