Is this a bullet, artillery shell?????

[Vern Humphrey]

And you never saw a 105mm round with a slip ring?

 

[ponchh]

And you never saw a 105mm round with a slip ring?

I don't remember that but I went thru AIT for 3 months or so and that's it, so I am far from an artillery expert. I learned to cut charges, set timed fuses and load without blowing us all up.
And the best part, when it came my turn in rotation to set that baby off. There's few things around like pulling that lanyard setting off a 155.
tto

 

[Trunk Monkey]

I don't remember that but I went thru AIT for 3 months or so and that's it, so I am far from an artillery expert. I learned to cut charges, set timed fuses and load without blowing us all up.
And the best part, when it came my turn in rotation to set that baby off. There's few things around like pulling that lanyard setting off a 155.
tto

It's the fibreglass ring that covers the obturating band. That said I don't think the 105 rounds came with them because the 105 rounds came packed in a cardboard tube

 

[ponchh]

If I remember right the fuse was in a cardboard tube. The first time I was gonna set a timed fuse the di tells me "you turn that the wrong way, you will kill us all." I'm thinking SAY WHAT.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

It's the fibreglass ring that covers the obturating band. That said I don't think the 105 rounds came with them because the 105 rounds came packed in a cardboard tube

No, that's a ring, usually of nylon or brass that REPLACES the "obturating band." It slips rather than grip the shell so the shell does NOT rotate. but is stabilized by a trailing set of fins. It's used for anti-tank rounds, because spin tends to disrupt the blast and make the round less effective at penetrating armor. It is used for both HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank or shaped charges) and Squash Head, rounds filled with plastic explosive that spread over the armor on impact and cause spalling inside the tank.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

No, that's a ring, usually of nylon or brass that REPLACES the "obturating band." It slips rather than grip the shell so the shell does NOT rotate. but is stabilized by a trailing set of fins. It's used for anti-tank rounds, because spin tends to disrupt the blast and make the round less effective at penetrating armor. It is used for both HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank or shaped charges) and Squash Head, rounds filled with plastic explosive that spread over the armor on impact and cause spalling inside the tank.

Again, no such tube artillery round exists

 

[Trunk Monkey]

If I remember right the fuse was in a cardboard tube. The first time I was gonna set a timed fuse the di tells me "you turn that the wrong way, you will kill us all." I'm thinking SAY WHAT.

When I was in the fuses came in ml can with something like an egg crate to hold each one

 

[Robert]

Arguing the finer points of artillery is a bit far a field for THR.