Fatty - Very true. One should never store the two together or in any place other than a proper magazine. That does not apply, of course, to fixed ammo. By NATO standards, the risk factor in such munitions is taken as the highest - in the case of a fixed HE round, the entire mag would be rated IAW the HE in the projectile.
Incidentally, one theory WRT the high Royal Navy losses at Jutland is the suggestion that ammo was being stored in places other than magazines so as to be able to carry more. If that happened, it would explain a lot.
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