What is the difference between an APCBC with explosives inside and an APCBC without explosives inside?

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I’m drive the M3 Lee, but the 37mm M51B1 main gun has no explosives. The 75mm M61 secondary gun has explosives, but both are labeled ‘APCBC’. The BR-243 on the Soviet T-26 is labeled APHEBC, so perhaps the M61 does not have explosives?

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No it does. If you hover your mouse pointer over it the M61 shell it shows you that it has 63.7 grams of explosive.

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So, is it actually APHECBC, not APCBC?

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I think it’s probably just mis-labelled, or that was the real life name and they just didn’t include the HE into the name. But that round has HE.

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Thanks. now I can fight with confidence.

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A lot of people like to say APHECBC or APCBC-HE for the precise reason of avoiding that confusion between different APCBC rounds.

In real life the designation the US used for the M61 projectile was either APC or APC-T. Even though it has explosive filler and a ballistic cap, both of those get omitted in the designation. And that is consistent with all US rounds. So a 37mm APC shot solid or a 75mm APCBC-HE shell are both just APC even though they are wildly different.

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