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Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or shattered by the detonation of the explosive filler.
Class 1: Explosives. Division 1.1: Explosive that has a mass explosion hazard. A mass explosion is a detonation of almost entire load instantaneously. Division 1.2: Goods and Substances without a mass explosion hazard, but with a projection (shrapnel/fragmentation).
Weapon Type In service Variants Photo POMZ: Anti-personnel tripwire type fragmentation mine 1945 – late 1960s POMZ-2 POMZ-2M PMN mine: Anti-personnel late 1950s – present PMN-1 PMN-2 PMN-4 OZM: anti-personnel bounding: OZM-3 OZM-4 OZM-72 MON-50: anti-personnel directional (Claymore) type MON-90 larger version of MON-50 anti-personnel ...
An illustration of a fragmentation bomb known as the 'divine bone dissolving fire oil bomb' (lan gu huo you shen pao) from the Huolongjing. The black dots represent iron pellets. In Song China (960–1279), weapons known as 'thunder crash bombs' (震天雷) were created when soldiers packed gunpowder into ceramic or metal containers fitted with ...
Directional fragmentation weapon: Anti-personnel command-detonated directional fragmentation weapon with 0.9 kg hexotol (a mixture of hexogen (RDX) and TNT similar to Composition B). [121] Very similar to the American M18 Claymore mine. VP 2010 Finland: Directional fragmentation weapon
This class of projectile is designed to break apart on impact whilst being of a construction more akin to that of an expanding bullet. Fragmenting bullets are usually constructed like the hollow-point projectiles described above, but with deeper and larger cavities. They may also have thinner copper jackets in order to reduce their overall ...
First entered service in 1996. It is a blow forward weapon and is used in both infantry and vehicle roles. [19] Man-portable anti-tank systems Howa 84RR: Recoilless rifle: 84x246mm Japan Sweden: Made under license by Howa, designated the 84 mm Recoilless Rifle. [20] Nissan 110mm LAM: Anti-tank rocket launcher: 110mm Japan West Germany
A 1976 U.S. Army evaluation of the weapon gave the hit probabilities on a 5-by-2.5-metre (16.4 ft × 8.2 ft) panel moving sideways at 4 m/s (13 ft/s). [21] Crosswinds cause additional issues as the round steers into the wind; in an 11 km/h (6.8 mph) wind, firing at a stationary tank sized target, the gunner cannot expect to get a first-round ...