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81 mm HE bomb LU-81
Region
France
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament All 81 mm mortars. Development By Luchaire as a private venture. Description This bomb uses a swaged steel body, lined with a coil of notched steel wire to provide preformed fragments. This gives the bomb a lethal efficiency of the average 105 mm artillery shell. The body is unusual as it is formed to provide a substantial bourrelet which also acts as the gas check; there are no gas check grooves and no form of obturating ring. The tail unit is of alloy and contains the usual primary cartridge, with up to
six secondary increments that fit around the tailboom in horseshoe containers. Manufacturer Luchaire Defense.