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60 mm canister
Region
France
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament 60 mm TDA gun-mortar. Development By Lacroix for French Army gun-mortars. Description This is a steel canister containing an expelling charge, a percussion primer and 135 steel balls, 8 to 9 mm in diameter. The round is loaded into the gun-mortar and is intended to be fired as a close-range anti-personnel weapon. On firing, the cap ignites the expelling charge which ejects the balls from the gun muzzle to an effective range of about 60 m. Immediately afterwards the entire empty canister is also ejected
from the muzzle to fall to the ground a few metres in front of the gun. Manufacturer E Lacroix.