INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired, WW2, 1938 Dated, Naval .5 Vickers (12.7×81mm) Semi Armour Piercing Round. - O 2285 INERT DEACTIVATED. British, Unfired, WW2, 1938 Dated, Naval .5 Vickers (12.7×81mm) Semi Armour Piercing Round. - O 2285 Various Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. The Vickers .50 machine gun, also known as the Vickers .50 was similar to the .303 inches (7.70 mm) Vickers machine gun but enlarged to use a larger-calibre 0.5 inch round. The gun saw some use in tanks and other fighting vehicles but was more commonly used as a close-in anti-aircraft weapon during World War 2 on Royal Navy and Allied ships, in a four-gun mounting. During the Second World War the gun was also mounted in power-operated turrets in smaller craft such as motor gunboats and motor torpedo boats. This is a British Vickers .5 inch gun semi armour piercing round. The round has a brass cartridge which is headstamped R crowfoot L (Royal Laboratories) 38 (1938) F.I Z (semi armour piercing, mark I, smokeless powder). The cartridge case is fitted with a brass percussion primer that is secured with a ring crimp. The nickel jacketed bullet is crimped in with three short crimping stabs. The price for this round includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess inert rounds in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 2285