Method of disassembling large-caliber combat cartridges and use of the cartridge components obtained by the method for the production of new cartridges

A method of making a training cartridge from parts of a large-caliber cartridge composed of

• a propelling charge casing having a casing jacket, a casing bottom at one end of the casing jacket and a forwardly conically tapering casing cover at another, opposite end of the casing jacket;
• the casing jacket conically widening toward the casing cover, whereby the casing jacket has a maximum diameter at a location of transition to the casing cover;
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• a sub-caliber projectile fastened to the casing cover and composed of a penetrator and a sabot surrounding the penetrator;
• the method comprising the following steps:
• (a) severing the casing jacket in a first region at a casing jacket diameter that is less than said maximum diameter;
• (b) severing the casing cover at a second region at a casing cover diameter that is the same as the casing jacket diameter in said first region;
• (c) discarding the large-caliber cartridge part severed between the first and second regions;
• (d) reusing, in the making of the training cartridge, the large caliber cartridge part extending from said first region to a rearward end of the cartridge and the large-caliber cartridge part extending from said second region to a forward end of the cartridge;
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• (e) replacing, in the making of the training cartridge, the large-caliber cartridge part severed between the first and second regions, by a casing jacket part having a diameter equalling the casing jacket and the casing cover diameters at said first and second regions, respectively.