INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired. 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23A1, HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) Round For The Scorpion light Tank and Saladin Armoured Car. - O 2012 INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired. 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23A1, HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) Round For The Scorpion light Tank and Saladin Armoured Car. - O 2012 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an original unfiredBritish 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23 A1 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. The round has an unfired cartridge case and is headstamped 76MM ARMD.C RLB (Royal Laboratories) RW175 977 (1977 manufacture date) LOT 2 and a crowfoot. The base of the cartridge case retains some of the black stencilling HESH. (High Explosive Squash Head). The unfired projectile retains most of its original green painted finish with a 20mm wide red ring round its circumference. The nose of the HESH projectile is painted white. The round is stamped above the unfired copper driving band P 76MM ARMDC SX22GE LOT 71 RLB (Royal Laboratories) 11/90 GPC57P H. 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. Price includes UK delivery. O 2012