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23x152B Ammunition

Cannon  
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Switzerland
China
Egypt
India
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Poland
Russian Federation
Serbia
South Africa
USSR
Yugoslavia

The 23×152B (B = Belted) ammunition family was developed in the former Soviet Union around 1940 for their Volkov-Yartsev (RU: Волков-Ярцев) 23 mm automatic cannon, which is commonly shortened to VYa-23 (RU: ВЯ-23). 23×152B VYa Round Three primary VYa ammunition natures were developed, these were armour-piercing incendiary (API), high explosive incendiary (HEI), and high explosive incendiary tracer (HEI-T). These were respectively known in R...

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