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120 mm HE bomb F-843
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament All 120 mm smoothbore mortars. Development By Soviet authorities to obtain greater terminal effect. Description This is a much more streamlined bomb than its predecessors, made of high-grade steel, giving high capacity but reduced fragmentation. The body is actually in two parts screwed together at the waist, the tail ends in a screwed spigot, around which the tailboom and fin units are screwed. There are five undercut and one semi-circular gas check rings at the bourrelet. The propelling charge system
consists of a primary cartridge and six secondary increments in cloth bags which are tied around the tailboom. Manufacturer State arsenals.