![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Older high explosive shells, which were often used with older artillery pieces, were often made out of cast iron. This, which some contemporaries called "thick walled" or "man-killing" shells, were designed to maximise the number of fragments that were big enough to kill or maim. Some armies also used high explosive shells that combined relatively small bursting charges with relatively thick walls. This allowed, among other things, the use of the same firing tables for both types of ammunition and the use of high explosive shells (which were easier to see when they exploded at a distance) as a means of getting the range for shrapnel shells. The amount of explosive contained in a shell of a given size often varied greatly from one period of the war to another.īefore the war, many armies limited the amount of high explosive contained in their high explosive shells in order to give them the same overall weight as shrapnel shells of the same calibre. ![]()
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