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INERT DEACTIVATED. Unfired, Early, British, Radway Green Manufactured, 30mm (30 x 173), APFSDS (Armour Piercing Fin Stabilised Discarding Sabot) Round For The Warrior, Scimitar And Fox Armoured Vehicles. Sn - 20657 INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an early unfired British Radway Green made 30mm (30 x 173) APDS/T (Armour piercing Discarding Sabot Fin Stabilised/Trace) round for the Warrior, Scimitar And Fox armoured vehicles and the German Puma IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle). The round was developed in the 1970s from the WW2 Hispano-Suiza 831L aircraft cannon round and shares the same cartridge case dimensions made by Royal Armament, Research and Development Establishment and Enfield. The Swiss made Oerlikon round is now called the KCB. The round was issued in three round steel clips with a handle at the bottom for loading. This round is an early APDS/T (Armour piercing Discarding Sabot Fin Stabilised/Trace) made at RoF Radway Green and consists of a brass bottlenecked cartridge case which is headstamped 30MM AFV (Armoured Fighting Vehicle) twice, 005 005 RG RG 86(Radway Green, 1986 date). The projectile consists of a two piece alloy sabot with the nose of the penetrator protruding approximately 67mm above the top of the sabot. The penetrator is magnetic. The sabot is stamped E 84 over B on one half and E 84 over C on the other half. The sabot has a 12mm bored balancing recess on each half. There is a hard white epoxy type filler between the two sabots. The round measures approximately 295 mm in height. See pages 58 – 59 in Jane’s Ammunition Handbook, 1st Edition. 1993 - 4. The price includes U.K. delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert round in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 20657 £475.00
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