Tactical Wargamer Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Playing a game with a buddy of mine. A self professed WWII expert. He mentions that the Soviets NEVER used Canister Rounds!! Is this true? Or is he just full of it. Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Now I'm no WWII expert, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Hehe I had to, couldn't resist. But I just so happened to read the second chapter of "T-34 In Action" a few hours ago. It discusses all kinds of tech specs about the tank like the engine, tracks, transmission, hatches, gunsights, ammo, etc. It's primarliy about the early war models and some briefly about the T-34/85. But since the earlier models supposedly used the canister shells the most when compared to the later models. I was surprised that the canister round wasn't mentioned at all. It only mentioned AP, HE, and tungsten shells. Not that this is definitive or anything and I really don't even care. I bought the book for the memoirs which appear to start in the next chapter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 It should really just be shrapnel. As in small bursting charge with steel balls inside, instead of pure HE. Russians still used it, everyone else concluded in WW I that plain HE was superior (the weight better spent on HE to make small high velocity fragments). And it is way, way overmodeled. Particularly against cover, but just in general. The same number of bullets individually aimed do far less. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted August 15, 2008 Author Share Posted August 15, 2008 So in the later year their HE rounds actually had steel balls in them? Interesting. Meat Etr - I will pick up this book looks good thanks! Any other comments gents about canister rounds? References? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 RCMP, A search should reveal some long threads on this. Meanwhile, you'll see from this www.Battlefield.ru ammo list that the guns fired canister and/or shrapnel http://www.battlefield.ru/content/view/149/64/lang,en/ Here's a then Secret Order of the Commander in Chief of the Western Front pointedly reminding his artillerymen to use shrapnel against exposed personnel targets in the listed range bracket. The author? Some guy named Zhukov! http://www.battlefield.ru/content/view/292/123/lang,en/ Here's the result of search using "Russian shrapnel rounds" as the phrase on this Forum. Some very groggy reading ahead of you! http://www.battlefront.com/community/search.php?searchid=32967 Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 RCMP, See particularly this thread. It's long, but it'll give a tremendous education on lots of grog matters. http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=43241&highlight=russian+shrapnel+rounds Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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