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Starting as a small ammo-production firm with a dozen workers, government contracts during World War I (1914–1918) to produce military cartridges, rockets and shells caused it to grow to 332 employees. The interwar years (1919–1939) were prosperous, but the cartridge production line was shut down during the German Occupation (1940–1945).
Initial production for the Vietnam War loaded 00 buckshot into the same red plastic cases being used for sporting ammunition and was designated: Shell, shotgun, plastic case, 12 gauge, No. 00 buck, XM162. The shells were typically packaged as twelve ten-round cardboard boxes within a metal ammunition box. [1]
T3AUD = 240 Shells, Shotgun, 12 Gauge, No.8 Chilled Shot, Paper Cased, in 10-shell cartons. 12 cartons per M10 metal ammo can (120 shells). 2 × M10 ammo cans per M12 wooden crate. T3AWD = 360 Shells, Shotgun, 12 Gauge, No. 4 Chilled Shot , in 10-shell cartons, 12 cartons per M10 metal ammo can (120 shells). 3 × M10 ammo cans per M15 wooden crate.
SCAAP can also produce 8-inch (203 mm) and 175 mm artillery shells like those used in the M110 howitzer and the M107 self-propelled gun which have been retired by the United States, but are used by some other nations, including some allied to the United States, including Taiwan.
The M982 Excalibur (previously XM982) is a 155 mm extended-range guided artillery shell developed in a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). [5]
Description: The type is a practice shell for combat training and practice shooting. [26] [4] Construction: The shell has a steel body with a plastic cap and is filled with orange signal chalk. [26] [4] Marking: The shell is colored in NATO blue training color. The side of the shell features a marking of the cartridges designation in white. [26 ...
A shell, in a modern military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling. Originally it was called a bombshell, contrasting with solid shells used for early rifled artillery, [citation needed] but "shell" has come to be unambiguous in a military context. A shell can hold a tracer.
The M110 155 mm projectile is an artillery shell used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps.The M110 was originally designed as a chemical artillery round to deliver blister agents via howitzer as a replacement for the World War I-era 75 mm chemical projectiles. [5]