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The Raufoss Mk 211 is a .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) multi-purpose anti-material high-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition projectile produced by Nammo under the model name NM140 MP. [1] It is commonly referred to as multipurpose or Raufoss , meaning red waterfall in Norwegian.
Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker was a Norwegian company based at Raufoss, established in 1896 as Rødfoss Patronfabrik. Initially the company manufactured ammunition, and later also other products, such as aluminium parts to the automotive industry. Until 1948 the company was a subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.
The Raufoss .50 round itself is easily identified by its sea-green colored bullet tip over a underlying tip color of white/silver. The headstamp on the casing can also help to identify the round as Raufoss and some common headstamps include: HXP89, WCC94 & FN91; or HXP, WCC or FN with different 2-digit numbers as production year suffixes.
A mine shell (from German: Minengeschoss, "mine shot") or high-explosive, high-capacity (HEHC) [a] in British military nomenclature, [1] [2] [3] is a military explosive shell type characterized by thin (usually steel) shell walls and a correspondingly high quantity of explosives, much higher than the traditional high-explosive shell type per caliber, meaning that mine shells trade ...
Explosion protection is used to protect all sorts of buildings and civil engineering infrastructure against internal and external explosions or deflagrations. It was widely believed [ 1 ] until recently that a building subject to an explosive attack had a chance to remain standing only if it possessed some extraordinary resistive capacity.
Police use 3D scanners to create ‘digital crash scene’ following Rainbow Bridge explosion. Monday 27 November 2023 13:00, Mike Bedigan. Police are using 3D scanning technology to help create a ...
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Car and truck bombings in Norway (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Explosions in Norway" ... 1944 Bergen explosion; 1956 Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker explosion; B.