Description
This shell consists of a steel cylinder closed at the forward end by a flat steel nose plug. The after end is externally threaded and reduced in diameter to screw into the shell ring of the rocket motor. A steel spigot is threaded into the after end of the shell body and contains the cordite filled auxiliary charge container. Separated from the auxiliary cordite charge by a thin steel plate are a small thermal unit and a gunpowder pellet. Beneath this pellet the base percussion Fuze No. 297 Mk I is threaded directly into the shell body. A single CE exploder pellet is located beneath the fuze in a cardboard exploder container.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Source(s)
OP 1665, British Explosive Ordnance (1946)
