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M776
#WIP FUZES
Region
United States
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
Armament M721 60 mm Illumination bomb. Development By Junghans Feinwerktechnik as a general purpose mechanical time fuze for ejection-type mortar bombs. Description The M776 is generally similar to the Junghans DM 93 mechanical time fuze described above, but with slight modifications for use in the M721 60 mm Illumination mortar bomb. The M776 can be set to function from 6 to 52 seconds in flight. For a complete description, see DM 93 . The most recent procurement by the US Army was for 9,038 fuzes at US$124.06
each in September 1999, bringing procurement from Junghans since 1995 to 79,300 units. Manufacturer US government contractors under licence from Junghans. Recent procurements have been directly from Junghans.