Fig. 15

Fig. 15

This shell is fitted with two driving bands 18 mm wide, a screwed-on head and has a soild base.

It is filled with a yellow explosive contained in a cardboard wrapper which is separated from the metal by a layer of plastic compound. For ranging shell the base of the filling contains a smoke box of red phosphorus.

Shell of this type which have been recovered were fitted with aluminum fuzes AZ 23. Rh.S. 1938, with delays 0 and 0.25 or without indication of delay.