DESCRIPTON. The identification of various types of 20 mm ammunition, both high-explo-sive and armor-piercing rounds, is show in fig. 324A und 324B.

The armor-piercing type prokectile body is painted black over-all and contains no color bands. However, if the armor-piercing round contains an incendiary mix, or high explosi-ve, corresponding color bands are marked on the projectile body. No fuzing is employed in either the oerlikon, mauser, or solothurn armor-piercing ammunition.

Figure 324A – 20-mm Ammunition

The high-explosives type projectile body is painted yellow over-all with the corresponding color bands indicating a high-explosive/tracer, a high-explosive/in-cendiary or a high-ex-plosive/incendiary/tracer. The AZ 1502, AZ 1504 and ZZ 1505 fuze are normally employ-ed in 20-mm high-explosive oerlikon, mauser and solothurn ammunition and are discussed in detail in the fuze section.

A chart showing the type projectile, projectile marking, material filling, trace, penetration at 100 yard, normal impact, and fuzing for 20-mm mauser and oerlikon ammunition is gi-ven at the end of this chapter.

Figure 324B – 20-mm Ammunition