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120 mm rocket assisted HE bomb
Region
Iran
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament Any 120 mm smoothbore mortar. Development By Defence Industrial Organisation to provide an extended range HE bomb. History unknown. Description The bomb consists of a steel body, internal solid-fuel rocket motor and HE filling. The body is streamlined with a tail boom holding the initiating charge and nine horseshoe-shaped propellant increments. There are six evenly spaced gas check rings just behind the ogive. Once the bomb is fired and en route to its target, the rocket motor initiates during the final
few seconds of the flight, adding approximately 4 km range over conventional bombs. When the motor fires, the tail boom separates from the body. Manufacturer Defence Industrial Organisation, Ammunition Group.