German Ammo: Pet Peeves

[Yoozername]

Just some stoffe...

20mm HE Brandgranate : used in many AFV including PanzerII, 250/9, armored cars and AA guns. The Germans went for the high HE content thin walled ammo. Very effective at suppression especially when shooting at ATG, bunkers, etc. also used by air force and navy. Devastating when fired from quad mount 20mm.

50mmL42 tungsten: produced in very large numbers. More so than 50mmL60 or any 75mm or 88mm gun. Gave extra life to these tanks which hung around in 1943.

[Yoozername]

Another peeve is the lumping in of 210mm nebelwerfer with other types of nebelwerfer.  These were quite deadly and had a more 'artillery' aspect to the warhead.
 
Here is one account...
 
A new type of nebelwerfer or some similar rocket projector of long range and heavy calibre appeared at this stage, and on 12 May it was most troublesome. RHQ of the 4th Field suffered a severe shake-up in the morning. One rocket landed 25 yards from the main office truck and another very close to the RAP truck. The CO's tank and jeep and another office truck were damaged. Except for the effects of the blast, however, nobody in RHQ was injured. RHQ of the 11th Field, RA, was not so lucky. One rocket burst by the artillery board and killed several people including the CO, Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Hobbs, a superb officer.48 An unexploded rocket was examined with interest and found to be of 210-millimetre calibre: earlier examples had been 150-millimetres.

[Yoozername]

The Germans also had a heavy 81mm mortar round.  Very similar to the US version.