INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Rare, 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23A1, PROOF RECOVERY, HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) Round For The Scorpion light Tank and Saladin Armoured Car. - O 2014 INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Rare, 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23A1, PROOF RECOVERY, HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) Round For The Scorpion light Tank and Saladin Armoured Car. - O 2014 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an original and rare British 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23 A1 PROOF RECOVERY, HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) round for the British 76mm ARMDC gun fitted to the Saladin 6 wheeled armoured car that replaced the AEC armoured car in 1958 and the later Scorpion Tank introduced in 1973. The 76mm gun used in these vehicles is the Royal Ordnance Factories L23A1 low velocity gun that fired HE (high explosive), HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) an anti-armour projectile, Smoke and a Canister (a projectile filled with shot pellets used for anti-personal use) rounds. Proof recovery rounds were used to check the fired projectile for marks to the driving band and projectile to deem the barrel fit for service after being manufactured. There was usually only one projectile fired per barrel produced. The round has the standard HESH projectile that has been recovered from the butts after firing. The cartridge case and is headstamped 76MM ARMD.C RW175 RLB (Royal Laboratories) 1985 (1985 manufacture date) LOT 54 and a crowfoot. The fired projectile retains most of its original black painted finish and is stamped round its circumference P 20 76MM ARMDC SX122 GE LOT 676 RLB (Royal Laboratories) 6/87 (June 1987 date) D5132 P 20 H. The projectile is also stencilled in white round its circumference RECOVER PROOF SHELL 76MM ARMD/C H.E.S.H. FILLED H.E.SUB (High Explosive Substitute) CY (RoF Chorley) 8/88 (August 1988 date) EMPTY LOT 6765 P20. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert round in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 2014