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In the photo this is the bow of the destroyer as it moves into some heavy weather...   Looking on the deck on either side of the forward 5 Inch Gun mount you will see the spent shell {The brass cylinders} casings from firing...  These are sent out the back of the mount; note the dark area center bottom, then roll around the deck to be picked up later....  The 5 Inch shell {Bog bullet} the part that gets sent toward a target, weight appox. 70 Lbs...    These consist of several types...  The idea of having a separate power casing and a selective projectile; allows a different shell to be selected for different events....  The I.V. is better than a mile a second... BTW normal firearm has about  an I.V. of between 2000 to 3000 Ft per sec ....  

i.e. Color it gone..... It has a Nitro Cellulose explosive....

 Ex. there are "Star shells" these are used at night to light up an area,  it consists of a very large flare type suspended from a parachute { quite a pretty site to see}, "AA Common" which is anti aircraft, it has different type fuses to hit aircraft,  "BLP" which is a blank load used for spotting, it is filled with sand { spotting is the shell fired first to see how close we were to the desired target... not the store, DUH!}, then there were the nasty "Anti Personal" rounds which are really a 70 Lb hand grenade that explodes about 50 ft. above the ground and tears up the area below....   We also had "Armor Piercing" which is used against a "Harden Target" usually a concrete Bunker, it has a delayed secondary explosive charge to penetrate the target...  A real bad day for those in the buncker....  Certain other shells were available but seldom used.... You might guess what some of these were about...  DUH!!   

No matter which one; we sent it was a bad hair day for who ever was on the receiving end... DUH!!      

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