Most of you are familiar with regular bullets for pistol or rifle.This bullets a little larger…
To give you a visual of what is used in IED’s (improvised explosive device) in Iraq and Afghanistan to injury our soldiers.One round is enough to do damage but putting 3-5 together pointing upward in a hole that was dug in a road or beside it is enough to destroy armored hummers.
Weighs 46 lbs
31 inches long
Little over 4” diameter
Normally the black end is the detonator when it hits. For an IED, shell is set off by trigger wire that is inserted in the bottom
1 comment:
Hi,
Two things. That's an M335A2, 4.2" illumination mortar round, not a 105mm howitzer shell. 4.2" mortar have a rifled barrel, so their projectile don't require fins for stabilization like other mortars.
Second, the black end in this case, is most likely an M577 MT (mechanical time) fuze, which is set to expel the illumination candle and its parachute at the correct altitude above the target, not when it hits the ground, like shells with a PD (point detonating) fuze.
Keep up the good work! :D
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