Smoothbore or rifled?

Basically, they are still very influenced by the British Army, yes.

 

Yay for our side :lol:
Oli
Although they do seem to be very cosy with the Russians these last few years.

 

check your history

the first HESH rounds were developed for recoiless and were too lightly built to fire from a normal gun. agreed there are a lot of HEAT loads for recoiless guns but there is really no reason to favor one over the other based on the launching gun. either HEAT or HESH will work fine with either gun but remember HEAT really does not like to be spun so some kind of slip ring is needed most of the time although the need is disappearing with the newer loadings.

 

The other way round, Burney designed the guns and discovered that he couldn't get the muzzle velocity required for a standard AP round, when he found out about HESH he adopted that for the weapon. (Tank Killing : Anti-Tank Warfare by Men and Machines, by Ian Hogg).
Just found out that Canada uses HESH (Cougar) and Pakistan manufacture HESH tounds in 105mm!
Not spinning is the main reason we Brits stayed with HESH as a tank round, we could fire it from a rifled gun without degrading performance, or fiddling about like the Frech did with Obus G. And it was regarded as having a better secondary effect against troops than did HEAT.
Oli