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Diagram of Star shell Mk I for British BL 6 inch 30 cwt howitzer, 1914. Used for illuminating the enemy and/or battlefield at night.
Special No. 25 time fuze is used, which has a weak stirrup spring design to arm on the low discharge shock of reduced propellant charge used for star-shell. |
Date | Data correct as at 1 August 1914. |
Source | Plate XXXII, pages 192-195, 197 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition, 1915. |
Author | War Office, UK |
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