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120 mm HE bomb, M933

Region
United States
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament M120 and M121 smoothbore mortars. Development By US Army ARDEC as an enhanced US-manufactured version of the Israeli M57 . Description The round consists of a fuze, propellant charge, fin assembly, ignition cartridge, and shell body. The shell body, made of wrought carbon steel, is loaded with Composition B filler. The M981 ignition cartridge has a percussion primer and is assembled to the end of the fin assembly. The M230 propellant charge is contained in four horseshoe-shaped felt-fibre containers
assembled around the fin assembly shaft.