84mm HE441B

The ammunition is fired from Gun 84 mm RCL Carl Gustaf M2 from theshoulder of the army. The cartridge combines some of the characteristics of Rocket and Artillery ammunition in its design. The ammunition is of fixed type and is spin stablished.This ammunition is intended for use against troops in the open and in slit trenches, machine gun posts soft skinned trasport vehicles and similar types of targets.It is fitted with a combined mechanical time and impact fuze.o.F1301-115201C.

The design of the ammunition parts and functioning are like Artillery components excepting that the rare of the cartridge case is closed by a plastic blow out disc (base plate) which allows rearward escape of the propellant gas to make it recoilless and the ignition of thepropellant is by a side-located percussion cap and an igniter composition.

The cartridge case is made of light aluminium alloy drawn to specification BS 1470 grade 6082 TF or IS 736 grade 64430 WP. At the rear, it is formed with a flange which is cut away over a length to take a guide while loading the round in the gun. At about 90 degree from the cut away flange a hole with two diameters is provided on the body of the cartridge case to take the percussioncap.The shell body is made of steel to specification DIN17200 Code 25 Cr Mo 4 with carbon percentage 0.26 to 0.29. It encloses two inserts of neoprene rubber containing about850 steel balls, the inserts surrounding the HE charge RDX/TNT. While filling the HE (RDX / TNT) a central cavity in two diameters is made to take two booster pellets and the time and impact fuze FFV447. The shell body takes the driving band of copper.The shell body is so designed that the danger area for rearward fragments from the point of brust is small. Propellant is NGB204 which is a ballistite propellant. The fuze FFv447 is dual-purpose fuze of both impact and mechanical time types. This ammunition is of Swedish design and is manufactured to Government of India, Ministry of Defence Specification Number CQA0312 and Drawing No.F1301-115201C.