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The US has been using 155mm artillery since we bought guns from the French in WW1.
What surprised me is the rounds are nearly identical to what we're loading today into an M777.
We have developed a handier charge than the silk bags packaging, but the M107 HE round dates from WW2 and isn't very dissimilar to the HE Mk. 1
The HE Mk. 1 is the round that came with the guns in 1917. It's developed into the M102 then M101 then M107.
They made the walls a little thicker to handle higher velocities in the newer guns.
They changed the threads to accept different fuses.
They changed the weight and kind of explosives.
But if you sat all of the HE rounds from WW1 to today next to each other, you almost need the markings to tell them apart.
There's just enough difference between them to see on the GURPS stats, but if you treated all 155mm howitzers the same and gave the same numbers to all the HE rounds, you wouldn't get too far off track.
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