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M74 (AP-T - M1/M9)

Cannon  
United States of America

The M74 is a fixed, 37 mm, armour piercing tracer (AP-T) cannon round, or simply armour piercing (AP) in US terminology of the time. The M74 AP-T round was used by 37 mm M1 series of anti-aircraft (AA) guns and though it could potentially be fired by the M9 (AN-M9) aircraft cannon, it was not. Other known rounds in the family are: the M54 high explosive tracer self-destruct (HE-T-SD); the M54A1 HE-T-SD; M55A1 target practice tracer (TP-T);...

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