High-explosive; shrapnel, dual purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM)- bomblet; canister or anti-personnel; illuminating or star-shell; Armour-piercing; incendiary (white phosphorus, "Willie Pete"); gas or aerosol, chemical or biological; smoke; nuclear and non-lethal (developing area - includes High Power Microwave HPM, and NL payload carrier shells).

Fuses

Quick or super-quick; delay; hardened-delay or concrete-piercing; timer; proximity. Proximity fuses can be set to detonate at various heights for above ground detonation providing for air-bursts which multiply the round's killing effectiveness. In anti-aircraft fire the proximity fuse can be made to have a premature detonation because of the moisture in heavy rain clouds. The proximity fuse emerged on the battlefields of Europe in 1944, and was signcant in providing a counter to German personnel in open. Proximity fuses were a big improvement over the mechanical fuse which it replaced.