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Old 12-26-2014, 09:51 PM
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According to wikipedia it is the French name for Amatol with a formula heavy on the ammonium nitrate (7 to 1) and with dinitronaphthalene (DNN) replacing TNT.

Looking at the chart above with .32 for pure AN and .68 for a 50/50 mix with TNT (stronger than DNN i believe), I don't think you would get much past .40 but that is really a guess.

https://books.google.com/books?id=u2...losive&f=false confirms the wiki ratios and ingredients.

It looks like the name went out of favor right after WWI as all published references I can find are before 1917.
Thanks....... For some reason the Defense Intelligence Agency is still using this.......Likely a lazy researcher using direct translations from Soviet manuals. No effort to confirm or use modern terminology. Then again...... Soviet manual and archaic terms are a waltz to the numbers.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document
Projectile and Warhead Identification Guide—Foreign
Information Cutoff Date: January 1997
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