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| Japanese Explosive Ordnance – Army Ammunition – Navy Ammunition |
| Chapter 4 – Section 1 |
| ARMY PROJECTILES |
| 20-mm High-Explosive Incendiary Tracer Projectile |
| Over-all length: 7 11/16 inches. |
| Length of projectile: 4 23/32 inches. |
| Length of case: 4 7/8 inches. |
| Filling: Cyclonite, incendiary composition, tracer composition. |
| Fuzing: Type 100 small instantaneous fuze. |
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Color and markings: Black body with red band just abaft bourrelet, green and yellow bands before rotating band. Characters |
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(flexible or fixed machine cannon) |
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stenciled on 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 and has two cavities, a main charge cavity and a tracer cavity, separated by a septum. The main charge cavity contains two pellets, the forward one, fitting around the fuze gaine, is cyclonite while the after one is an in-cendiary mixture. |
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Figure 214 – 20-mm High-Explosive Incendiary Tracer Projectile. |
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