New stuff for the collection

[Flying10uk]

Cinders, I wonder if your shell cases in post 7 are for a Tank main gun but of WW1 vintage; the 2 indicating 2 pounder. Can some-one tell us, please, if the "Male" Tanks (had proper guns not just machine guns as in the case of Female Tanks) used by Britain and Commonwealth in WW1 were 2 pounder?

[browningautorifle]

I think you're right, the stamp there is a date stamp of 918 (1918)... Here's a link to the early tanks. They appear to be 6 pdr. British heavy tanks of World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[CINDERS]

Thought it would be nice to show some of the larger pieces in my collection I have had these for a while L-R Leopard prac HEAT round steel case, 5" Naval cannon shell from our decommissioned Swan class destroyers and 107mm (?) Recoiless shell I have 2 of these one is a practice case.

I placed a 303 round on top of the HEAT round for scale (pic 1) then at the base of the practice HEAT projie for scale.
Cheers

[Flying10uk]

Is anyone able tell us more about the blue practice shell of Cinder's which he describes as a HEAT round from a Leopard, please? It appears to be an amour piercing round and is it just the standard A.P. round for the Leopard M.B.T.?

[browningautorifle]

Blue is standard practice. Nothing more. If it were heat it would be black I think with yellow markings. (See pic)...and the 107 is actually a 106, which when live measures out at 105...we had them for years.

[CINDERS]

Think this is an earlier version of the real one denoted by the brass shell case (which I have been chasing one for years) BAR put me onto some but the shipping would have been lunar in price. And another 2 I know of the owner will not part with till he is pushing up daisies.........
Jim what calibre were the ones on the ONTOS that served in Vietnam. TIA

Sorry I shortened practice to prac which may have given the wrong impression of the projectiles intent I still reckon even a practice round would do some damage to a target as they are fairly weighty.

[browningautorifle]

The practice rounds are blue. Heat is black. You're right about AP though, as in finstab, they're blue. Brass cases are just the luck of the draw, you could draw 105mm ammo for the howitzers and have a mixture of cases up to a few years back. The tin wrap cases were a cost saving measure, the navy ammo was the same.

The ONTOS was a multiple mount 106mm recoiless rifle veh. There were six I think, standard guns. That would have been super, wish we'd had those. Specially over in Afghanistan... M50 Ontos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia