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Explosive filler

WAKEN

New Member
Hi everyone,

I'm looking for the amount of explosive filler the mortar bombs/HE shells fired by the following weapons. Can anyone help?

45mm Brixia mortar
47/32
65/17
75/27
77/28
81/14
100/17
105/28
149/12
149/35
149/40
152/37

Thanks!
 
Brixia: .07Kg.
47/32: .15Kg.
65/17: .25Kg.
75/27: .4Kg.
77/28: .7Kg.
81/14: .54Kg.
100/17: 1.3Kg.
105/28: 2.35Kg.
149/12: 5.12Kg.
149/35: 4Kg.
149/40: 4.8Kg.
152/37: 4.68 Kg.
 

WAKEN

New Member
Wow. Thanks David! I missed a couple:
20/65
90/53
I believe there was 1 artillery group in XXI Corps equipped with 12 120mm coast defence guns, but I do not know which type of 120mm naval guns they had. If you know which type they had and what the explosive filler for the HE shell was that would be great.

Cheers
 
20/65: Don't know.
90/53: 1 Kg. (this was the A/A round).
I believe there was 1 artillery group in XXI Corps equipped with 12 120mm coast defence guns: 120mm L/25 perhaps? Various figures from 2.65Kg - 4.27Kg.

Sorry, not so much help this time.
 

WAKEN

New Member
Thanks very much David. Hopefully the 20/65 filler I'll find...
Once further one please: the MILMART 102/35 in RECAM and Ariete: I assume they had an HE shell as well as AP... do you have the filler for the HE shell?

Cheers,

Neil
 
Those figures all seem very high for a 20mm H.E round, much less a 20mm A/A round. I have a cartridge weight of 135g for a 20mm Breda A/A round.

But I'm not claiming that as gospel, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.
 

WAKEN

New Member
Got this reply from another website: "I don't know about how Italian production might have differed, but since the Breda used the same 20 x 138B ammo as the German 2 cm Flak 30/38 etc I would assume that the HE contents would be comparable"
 

Slavomir

New Member
Is this what you are looking for?
Cartocci da 20 mod 35.jpg
from: Dati tecnici sulle artiglierie in servizio, Ministero Della Guerra, 1938
 
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