English/German cannon shells

[Schallfalke]

It is about the original English names, not translation, but I am not sure to put this here or which subsection of forum.

There are four types of cannon shells by now (0.16.51). Their current names are cumbersome and not the best, and are making translations (which are based on English) not looking nice.
Currently in English,

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cannon-shell=Cannon shell
explosive-cannon-shell=Explosive cannon shell
uranium-cannon-shell=Uranium cannon shell
explosive-uranium-cannon-shell=Explosive uranium cannon shell

People made the following German translations based on English...

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cannon-shell=Kanonengeschoss
explosive-cannon-shell=Explosives Kanonengeschoss
uranium-cannon-shell=Uranversetzte Kanonenmunition
explosive-uranium-cannon-shell=Explosive Uran-Panzergranate

If the four shells are named after their characteristics, and using existing terms in the real world military, they may look better. (And make translations based on English all better.)
Here are my suggestions:

• The two shells with good piercing power: Armor-piercing shell or AP shell in short.
• The two shells with area damaging power: High-explosive shell or HE shell in short.

So we will have the following English strings: (I am not sure whether to keep the word "cannon" here, I am open-minded to it.) As Pi-C pointed out, I keep the word "cannon" in strings.

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cannon-shell=Armor-piercing cannon shell
explosive-cannon-shell=High-explosive cannon shell
uranium-cannon-shell=Uranium armor-piercing cannon shell
explosive-uranium-cannon-shell=Uranium high-explosive cannon shell

And so I would suggest the following German strings: (which is then direct translation of English strings, and is also much cleaner and concise.)

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cannon-shell=Panzergranate
explosive-cannon-shell=Sprenggranate
uranium-cannon-shell=Uran-Panzergranate
explosive-uranium-cannon-shell=Uran-Sprenggranate

[Pi-C]

So we will have the following English strings: (I am not sure whether to keep the word "cannon" here, I am open-minded to it.)

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cannon-shell=Armor-piercing (cannon) shell
explosive-cannon-shell=High-explosive (cannon) shell
uranium-cannon-shell=Uranium armor-piercing (cannon) shell
explosive-uranium-cannon-shell=Uranium high-explosive (cannon) shell

I definitely would stick to "cannon shells" as long as there also are shotgun shells. Might be too ambiguous otherwise.

[Schallfalke]

I definitely would stick to "cannon shells" as long as there also are shotgun shells. Might be too ambiguous otherwise.

Sure, I am adjusting my first post accordingly.