All dimensions are in mm.

Fig. 12

This H.E. Shell has a screwed-in base with parallel walls and two driving bands of either copper or bimetallic fitted into undercut grooves near the base. Two cannelures are for-med below the driving bands for the purpose of securing the cartridge case to the shell.

For indification purposes the groove immediately below the driving band is painted black and the grooves between and above the bands are painted yellow.

The shell is filled T.N.T. wrapped in a vanished cardboard container insulated from the inside walls by four sheets of white paper and from the base by two super-omposed washers of black cardboard.

This shell is used in the 8.8 Flak 18 A.A. gun and is fitted with one of the following fuzes:

against land objectives (armoured vehicles) percussion fuze AZ. 23 (0.15) or time fuze Zt.Z. S/30 (0 - 5,000).

Fig. 12

The weight of shell is 9 kgs, cartridge 14.7 kgs and the charge 2 - 3 kgs.