INERT DEACTIVATED. Fired, 155MM NATO FH70 Illuminition Projectile. - O 2000 INERT DEACTIVATED. Fired, 155MM NATO FH70 Illuminition Projectile. - O 2000 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a fired 155mm NATO illuninition projectile that has had. The FH70 gun was developed by Vickers and Rheinmetall and was introduced into service in 1976 and used a bagged charge system for the propellant. The 155mm rounds are widely used in NATO guns including the FH70, M777 howitzer the French Caeser, M109 and the German Panzerhaubitze 2000. The projectile is fitted with a mechanical sectioned time fuze. The projectile has a steel body and a copper driving band which has been engraved by the rifleing when fired. The exterior of the round retains much of its original dark green colour with a white band below the fuze and the illumination parachute symbol. The round is also stencilled on the side in white 155 ILLUM DM96. See pages 195-217, Janes Ammunition Handbook, 1st Edition 1993 – 4. No licence is required to possess inert rounds in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Delivery is to the U.K. only at cost and by arrangement. O 2000