Track link fragment with shrapnel embedded? Please help ID
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It's 'fragments embedded'. Shrapnel are round balls projected from a shrapnel shell, fragmentation comes from normal high explosive munitions.
Sorry, I've had a week of people using the wrong terminology!
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It's 'fragments embedded'. Shrapnel are round balls projected from a shrapnel shell, fragmentation comes from normal high explosive munitions.
Sorry, I've had a week of people using the wrong terminology!
Now you're just nitpicking.
Yes Shrapnel was originally round lead shot filled into hollow Cannon Balls (invented by one of "your" dropshorts of the same Name). The Name however became synonomous with all fragmentation from Arty. Shells and soon Frag in general. It has stayed in common use ever since, whether the MOD find's it appropriate or not.
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