Editing Shrapnel shell (section)

==World War II era==
[[File:Rus122shrapnel.JPG|thumb|Russian 122 mm shrapnel shell]]
A new British streamlined shrapnel shell, Mk 3D, had been developed for [[BL 60 pounder gun]] in the early 1930s, containing 760 bullets. There was some use of shrapnel by the British in the campaigns in East and North East Africa at the beginning of the war, where 18-pdr and 4.5-in (114&nbsp;mm) howitzers were used.  By [[World War II]] shrapnel shells, in the strict sense of the word, fell out of use, the last recorded use of shrapnel being 60 pdr shells fired in [[Burma Campaign|Burma]] in 1943.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}  In 1945 the British conducted successful trials with shrapnel shells fused with [[Proximity fuse|VT]]. However, shrapnel was not developed as munitions for any new British artillery models after World War I.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tucker |first=Spencer |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/899880792 |title=Instruments of war : weapons and technologies that have changed history |date=2015 |isbn=978-1-4408-3654-1 |location=Santa Barbara, CA |oclc=899880792}}</ref>