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81 mm HE cargo bomb LR M514A1
Region
Belgium
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament US M1, M29/29A1, M252 ; UK L16A1 and similar mortars. Development By MECAR SA. Description This uses a tubular steel bomb body with a plastic obturating ring close to the rear end, a tailcone and an aluminium tailboom and fins. The body contains a black powder expelling charge, actuated by a time fuze screwed into the nose and 12 dual-purpose shaped charge/fragmentation submunitions. The standard MECAR propellant system is used. At the time set on the fuze the expelling charge is ignited. This blows the
tail off the bomb and ejects the submunitions that fall freely to the ground. Each has an impact fuze and depending upon the target, functions as an anti-armour or anti-personnel weapon. The shaped charge will penetrate over 60 mm of armour and the anti-personnel lethal radius is approximately 10 m. Manufacturer MECAR SA.