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L15 (155 mm HE Projectile)

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France
United Kingdom
Italy

The L15 are a series of British low-drag 155 mm hollow-base (HB) high explosive fragmentation (HE-frag) projectiles. An L15 projectile has a thin-walled high tensile fragmenting steel bodies, gilding metal driving band and a carbon steel base sealing plate. The body of the projectile holds ≈11.3 kg of RDX/TNT and an aluminium alloy cased ≈150 g supplementary charge of RDX/wax. Four models of L15 are known to have been developed: the L15A1;...

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