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Weapon systems and military equipment tagged artillery ammunition.

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122 mm artillery round, 122 mm artillery ammunition, MunitionsMunitions122 mm artillery round122 mm artillery ammunitionSide: UnknownBuilt: Various Soviet and international producers / Soviet Union / multiple countriesThe 122 mm artillery round is a family-level label for Soviet-origin medium-caliber artillery ammunition used by howitzers and other 122 mm artillery systems. In open-source reporting on the AQ-400 Scythe, the round appears as a standard carried payload, usually described as a pair of 122 mm artillery rounds rather than a specific named shell model.
OF-462, 122 mm high-explosive fragmentation shell, MunitionsMunitionsOF-462122 mm high-explosive fragmentation shellSide: UnknownBuilt: Soviet ordnance industry / Soviet UnionOF-462 is a Soviet 122 mm high-explosive fragmentation shell used in 122 mm howitzer ammunition families. Wikipedia's D-30 table lists OF-462 at 21.76 kg with 3.675 kg of TNT and 690 m/s from maximum propellant charge, while the A-19 ammunition table says the gun could fire 122 mm howitzer shells and lists OF-462 at 765 m/s with charge no. 1. STV Group later describes an HE-462 projectile equivalent to OF-462, showing the same round family in current export ammunition documentation.
3OF56 122 mm Frag-HE Rocket Assisted Projectile, 122 mm rocket-assisted high-explosive fragmentation projectile, MunitionsMunitions3OF56 122 mm Frag-HE Rocket Assisted Projectile122 mm rocket-assisted high-explosive fragmentation projectileSide: UnknownBuilt: Various Soviet / Russian producers / Soviet Union / Russian Federation3OF56 is a Soviet-era 122 mm rocket-assisted high-explosive fragmentation projectile listed for the 2A31 gun on the 2S1 Gvozdika and other compatible 122 mm artillery pieces. Open-source reference data describes it as a spin-stabilised HE-frag round developed in the early 1980s and introduced into Soviet service around 1985.
OF-45 High-Explosive Fragmentation Projectile, 152 mm high-explosive fragmentation projectile, MunitionsMunitionsOF-45 High-Explosive Fragmentation Projectile152 mm high-explosive fragmentation projectileSide: UnknownBuilt: Soviet / Russian ordnance program / Soviet Union / RussiaThe OF-45 is a Soviet/Russian 152 mm high-explosive fragmentation projectile in the separate-loading artillery family developed from 1966 onward. Forecast International identifies it among the rounds fired by the 2A64 cannon on the 2S19 Msta-S, and open references describe the shell as a 43.56 kg round with a 24.7 km range from that gun.