INERT DEACTIVATED. Rare, Unfired 1944 Dated German WW2 10.5cm FH18 (100x78R) Gr39 Hollow Charge Fixed Round. O 2330 INERT DEACTIVATED. Rare, Unfired 1944 Dated German WW2 10.5cm FH18 (100x78R) Gr39 Hollow Charge Fixed Round. O 2330 Various Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a WW2 German 1944 dated 10.5cm FH18(100x78R) GR 39 hollow charge fixed round for the 10.5cm FH18 light field howitzer which was introduced into service in 1935, replacing the FH16. The howitzer was not powerful to be used as an anti-tank gun but with the introduction of the hollow charged projectile gave it an anti-tank capability. This round is a crimped in fixed round where the FH18 normally had a separate loaded cartridge case with incremental propellant charges. The round has the first type of hollow charged projectile, the H1 type and is complete with its steel AZ23 nos fuze. The projectile has a sintered iron driving band and is stamped round its circumference 91 5 44 (May 1944) 8660. The steel cartridge case is headstamped Le JG 18 44 (1944 date) 6391St faa (Deutsche Waffen- u. Munitionsfabriken AG, Karlsruhe) eh 10. The steel screw in C/12nASt primer is stamped dws (August Thyssen-Huette AG, Duisburg-Hamborn) 171. The nose fuze is stamped round the circumference AZ38St 44 (1944 date) box 12. See Hogg, German artillery of WW2 pages 45 to 48. The price for this rare round 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 2330