INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired, 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23A1, Practice HESH/T (High Explosive Squash Head/Trace) Round For The Scorpion light Tank and Saladin Armoured Car. - O 2013 INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired, 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23A1, Practice HESH/T (High Explosive Squash Head/Trace) Round For The Scorpion light Tank and Saladin Armoured Car. - O 2013 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an original British 76mm ARMDC (76.2x230R) L23 A1 practice HESH/T (High Explosive Squash Head/Trace) 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 cartridge case and is headstamped 76MM ARMD.C RLB (Royal Laboratories) RW175 1987 (1987 manufacture date) LOT 72 . The base of the cartridge case retains some of the black stencilling PRAC L40A1 (Practice L40A1 round). The side on the cartridge case is stencilled in black including MQ/M07 026 C GE 10/87 (October 1987 date).The unfired projectile has a copper driving band and retains most of its original light blue painted finish (practice projectile). The projectile is stamped round its circumference P 76MM ARMDC SX122GE LOT 721 RLB (Royal Laboratories) 11/90 B4303. The projectile is also stencilled in white round its circumference 76MM ARMD C PRAC SH (Practice Squash Head) SX472GF HE SUB (High Explosive Subistute) T and 174 6/91 (June 1991 date) GD. The round is fitted with an alloy plug depicting a base fuze and is screwed to take a tracer element. 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. Price includes UK delivery. O 2013