What are the types of artillery shells?

What are the types of artillery shells?

Depending on how the propellant is loaded into the gun with the projectile, artillery ammunition is classified into four groups: fixed, semi-fixed, separated, and separate loading.

What are the two types of artillery ammunition?

One classification is based on the manner in which the components are assembled for loading and firing. Complete rounds of artillery ammunition are known as either semi-fixed or separate loading. An M16 round is a type of FIXED ammunition (you cannot adjust the amount of propellant in the cartridge case).

What is a 155 round?

The M107 155mm projectile was the standard 155mm high explosive (HE) projectile for howitzers of the US Army and US Marine Corps. A bursting round with fragmentation and blast effects, the M107 is being superseded in the US military by the M795.

How big is a 105mm shell?

As someone else pointed out the diameter of a 105 MM is 4.134 inches. If we are talking US artillery, the projectile weighs about 33 lbs. and is propelled by about 12 lbs.

What is the blast radius of a 105mm shell?

Typical kill radius was 30 meters for a 105mm or 4.2inch round, 50 meters for a 155mm and 80 meters for an 8inch round. “Time On Target” (TOT) was a surprise tactic for devastating a particular target area almost instantaneously.

What is a howitzer shell?

A howitzer (/ˈhaʊ. ɪtsər/) is generally a large ranged weapon between an artillery gun (also known as a cannon outside the US) – which has smaller, higher-velocity shells fired at flatter trajectories – and a mortar – which fires at higher angles of ascent and descent.

How big is a 150mm shell?

The weight of shells increases by and large with calibre. A typical 150 mm (5.9″) shell weighs about 50 kg, a common 203 mm (8″) shell about 100 kg, a concrete demolition 203 mm (8″) shell 146 kg, a 280 mm (11″) battleship shell about 300 kg, and a 460 mm (18″) battleship shell over 1500 kg.

What is a 105 sabot round?

An ammunition specialist carries a 105 mm armor-piercing, discarding sabot round, to be used in an M1 Abrams tank, during Desert Shield.

What is the blast radius of a 155mm artillery round?

For a typical US 155 artillery round such as the M-107 normal cavity round, it has a kill radius of approximately 50 meters and a casualty radius of 100 meters. It should be noted that the “radius” represents the distance where 50% of the people within the radius would be killed or injured.

What type of artillery was used in the Civil War?

Howitzers used during the Civil War were short barreled cannons usually made of bronze. They looked like standard artillery pieces just with a short barrel. They fired projectiles at a high trajectory lobbing shells over the heads of the enemy.

How was artillery used in the Civil War?

Civil War artillery played a very important part during the American Civil War. It was used against infantry, buildings, fortifications, and ships. Artillery was limited during the Civil War to firing at targets the gunners could actually see. There were no forward observers who could direct fire onto a target.

Are Civil War cannon balls dangerous?

In South Carolina the storm managed to unearth some cannon balls from the Civil War that have been sitting there and potentially dangerous. The Civil War of course civil began at nearby Fort Sumter in 1861, so the cannon balls have been sitting there undetected for quite some time.

What was Artillery during the Civil War?

Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the Artillery branch to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field. It does not include siege artillery, use of artillery in fixed fortifications, or coastal or naval artillery. At the time of the Civil War, metallurgy and other supporting technologies had just recently evolved to a point allowing the large scale production of rifled field artillery.