45mm anti tank round?...
Thank you Gunny, ammo is absolutly out of my experience.
Found this example in the net:
ORIGINAL WWII RUSSIAN 45 mm ANTI-TANK GUN CANNON M1937 ARTILLERY SHELL STAMPED 1942
Looks really like a caliber 4,5 cm for an ANTI-TANK GUN CANNON M1937.
Yes Gunny is spot on Russian 45mm Anti-Tank shell case
Hello, RKKAFan!
If you still interested, the general information from me about that beautiful 45x310mm brass shell-case for the Russian legendary "Sorokopyatka" 's (that is Russian nickname of the gun, means "45mm calibers gun") fixed ammunition.
First of all, that is definitely a shell-case for Russian 45mm tank and anti-tank cannons from the WW2 era (manuf.period 1932-1945). A full list of the Russian weapon units (16!) that was firing those shells :
- Anti-tank 45mm cannon "19-K" (1932-1937) short barrel
- Anti-tank 45mm cannon "53-K" (1937) short barrel
- Anti-tank 45mm cannon "M42" (1938-1942) long barrel
- Cavalry tanks BT-5 and BT-7 (1932-1945), equipped with 45mm tank gun "20-K"
- Heavy armored cars BA-3, BA-6, BA-10, BA-11 (1933-1942), also equipped with "20-K"
- Light tanks T-26, T-50, T-70 and T-80 (1933-1960), also forearmed with "20-K"
- Heavy 5-turrets tank T-35 (1935-1941), it has 2 of "20-K" on deck!
- Heavy experimental 2-turrets tank T-100 (1939), it has one "20-K" and one 76mm "L-11" gun.
- Heavy experimental 2-turrets tank SMK (1939) , again - one "20-K", one 76mm "L-11".
And finally, there were 5 types of 45mm fixed artillery shells that used to be standard ordnance for all the cannons above, and your shell-case was using for all of them:
- UBZR-243 (armor-piercing-incendiary fixed shell) Russian "УБЗР-243"
- UBR-243SP (armor-piercing-solid fixed shell) Russian "УБР-243СП"
- UBR-243P (armor-piercing-subcalliber fixed shell) Russian "УБР-243П"
- OU-243 (fragmentation fixed shell) Russian "УО-243"
- USHCH-243 (shrapnel or canister fixed shell) Russian "УЩ-243"
Тhat is all general info you may need. Hope you will find this helpful. By the way, shells above UBZR-243 and UBR-243SP I have manufactured as wooden ordnance replicas, and you can see them both on my website, equipped with your shell casePay attention to the correct markings in Russian on my shell-cases (it is no longer legible on yours). Planning to full fill the whole 5-types range, will look interesting as a set.
Cheers!
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