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120 mm smoke bomb HC
Region
Italy
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament All 120 mm smoothbore mortars. Development By SNIA-BPD for Tampella mortars in Italian service and general use. Description This resembles the HE and smoke bombs and uses the same tail unit and propulsion system. However, the body is divided about 120 mm from the junction with the tail tube, a tailcone is press fitted into the body and secured by four shear pins. A lip on the cone supports two smoke canisters which occupy the remainder of the body. Above the canisters is a black powder expelling charge
held in a nose adaptor, into which a time fuze is screwed. Upon the functioning of the time fuze the expelling charge is exploded. The flash ignites the two smoke canisters and the gas pressure forces the canisters against the lip on the tailcone, so shearing the pins and causing the tailcone and tail unit to fall away. The pressure then ejects the burning smoke canisters, these fall to the ground and emit smoke. Manufacturer SNIA-BPD Defence.