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| Japanese Explosive Ordnance – Army Ammunition – Navy Ammunition |
| Chapter 4 – Section 1 |
| ARMY PROJECTILES |
| 20-mm High Explosive Incendiary Projectile |
| Over-all length: 7 19/32 inches. |
| Length of case: 4 7/8 inches. |
| Length of projectile: 3 5/16 inches. |
| Weight of projectile: 4.48 ounces. |
| Filling: Cyclonite, incendiary composition. |
| Fuzing: Type 93 small instantaneous fuze. |
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Color and markings: Black body with red band just abaft bourrelet, yellow band forward of rotating band. The characters |
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(fixed or flexible machine cannon) |
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are stenciled down the body. |
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Weapons in which used: Ho-1 (flexible) and Ho-3 (fixed) aircraft cannon. |
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Remarks: The projectile is made of steel. It contains two pellets, the forward one, sur-rounding the fuze gaine, is cyclonite while the after pellet is an incendiary mixture. |
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Figure 212 – 20-mm High-Explosive Incendiary Projectile. |
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