My little shell casing

southsaskscotty

southsaskscotty

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I was wondering if anyone could tell me a little more about a little shell casing that I have. This was picked up off the runway at the Sarajevo airport by my uncle in 1992 when he rolled in with Mackenzie. Not too familiar with modern artillery so was wondering if any of you had any insight into what was firing it. Since it is fairly large already I would be interested to know the length of the projectile, it must have been one heavy bugger!

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Thanks!
 
well its a 100mm that obvious and the caseing is too big to be arty. Now since there is no NATO 100mm tank guns that leaves the soviets.

I'de have to check janes but T-55 sounds reasonable. I'll go with that.

Oh we had one just like that outside my shacks in Banja Luka.
 
Wildfoot said:
is there anywhere i can purchase a shell casing like that? im sure with that much brass they will cost quite a bit?
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When Crown Assets auctions off the Brass cases from the 105's here in Shilo they go in lots of around 2300 at a time. The cases average about $8 to 12 ea. You have to buy all 2300 of them, you can't just buy a couple.

Just have a watch at the gun shows. Large Brass casings show up there all the time, usually at $20 and up.
 
southsaskscotty said:
Ahh sweet! thanks! A T-55 hey? Would not have wanted to be the poor guy that had to manuver that thing around inside a tank.
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Actually being the loader was my favourite job in the Leopard tank, it was pretty cool slinging the big rounds and you also had the biggest area and your own hatch to your self.
 
bdft said:
I've got a stupid question. If that's a Russian shell, why doesn't it have Cyrillic writing on it?
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Depends where in the former FRY the casing was made. Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets were in use depending on the constituent republic in question. Likewise such ammunition was produced in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and other former WarPac nations using the Latin alphabet.
 
eos said:
Depends where in the former FRY the casing was made. Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets were in use depending on the constituent republic in question. Likewise such ammunition was produced in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and other former WarPac nations using the Latin alphabet.
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Good point. I never thought of that. I said it was a stupid question. :D
 
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