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120 mm rocket-assisted HE bomb
Region
Israel
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament Tampella, TDA and other 120 mm smoothbore mortars. Development By Israel Military Industries ( IMI ) to improve performance of current Israel Defence Force mortars. Description A steel bomb of conventional shape, but with the rear taper considerably thicker than normal and with the tailfins close to the body. The central cartridge container extends behind the fins and the nine split-ring secondary increments are fitted around it. This cartridge container also forms the rocket efflux, the motor extending
upwards into the base of the bomb. Precise details have not been divulged, but it seems probable that the end of the cartridge container carries the primary cartridge and the bomb is drop loaded and fired in the usual manner. A delay mechanism will ignite the rocket motor on the upward leg of the trajectory, moving the vertex out and thus increasing the range. Manufacturer Israel Military Industries ( IMI ).