Projectile

A projectile, which has a projectile body featuring a recess for receiving an explosive, wherein the projectile body has a cylindrical shell surface, at least in sections, which is surrounded, at least in sections, by several ring-shaped elements provided with predetermined break points, wherein fragments formed upon breakup of the elements are predefined via the predetermined break points, said fragments being connected to one another in a ring-shaped connecting portion for forming the ring-shaped element, characterised in that freely projecting ends of the fragments are at least partially arranged in a common orthogonal plane to a longitudinal axis of the ring-shaped element, wherein this orthogonal plane is arranged diverging from an orthogonal plane defined by the ring-shaped connecting portion and the ring-shaped elements of the two groups are pushed on the cylindrical shell surface in a different spatial orientation, and wherein a subset of the fragments includes a first angle (a) other than 90° with respect to the orthogonal plane defined by the ring-shaped connecting portion, and another subset includes a second angle (a′), also other than 90° with respect to the orthogonal plane defined by the ring-shaped connecting portion, wherein the second angle (a′) is mirrored to the first angle (a) about a plane extending through a ring-shaped connecting portion.