The Australian 25-pdr was issued with an Armour Piercing Shot projectile, to be fired using any of three charge values
(1) 'Charge Super' plus increment
(2) 'Charge Super'
(3) Charge 3.
CMF artillery units regularly practiced moving target/anti-tank shooting techniques on the anti-armour range at Puckapunyal up into the early 1960s. The Australian 25-pdr handbooks of the 1950s include descriptions of the AP Shot round and the EFCs that each powder type & quantity resulted in.
An AP Shot may only have 'annoyed' a T-54 or Type 59, but smaller vehicles like APCs would still get a quite a shock from one.
The label was common on these Australian-made boxes of the period.
Mike
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