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The LG5/QLU-11 can be equipped with free-floating barrel, a fire-control system with a laser rangefinder, thermal imaging capability, and a ballistic computer that gives it air burst capability. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The QLU-11 was tested in combat against Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden by Chinese marines . [ 7 ]
A ZSU-23-4 targeted by munitions missile AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon during an exercise.. The BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb is the submunition used in several cluster bomb type weapon systems, mainly the CBU-87 and its precision-guided version CBU-103.
In point detonate delay mode the high explosive detonates a brief instant after it hits a target. [1] The delay is intended to let the projectile first penetrate a wall, and explode when it emerges on the other side. In air burst mode the cannon's aiming system programs the munition to explode in the air above the target.
M107 projectiles, all with fuzes fitted An M107 155 mm high explosive projectile with a M739A1 point detonating (PD) fuze The M107 is a 155 mm high explosive projectile used by many countries. It is a bursting round with fragmentation and blast effects.
Blast from a US Navy fuel–air explosive used against a decommissioned ship, USS McNulty, 1972 A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, [1] is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive.
The Mk 83 is a streamlined steel casing containing 445 pounds (202 kg) of tritonal high explosive. When filled with PBXN-109 thermally insensitive explosive, the bomb is designated BLU-110. When filled with PBXN-109 thermally insensitive explosive, the bomb is designated BLU-110.
Further modifications of its burning rate were achieved by shaping the powder grains into prismatic shapes, typically single-perforated hexagonal or octagonal prisms. They became obsolete as a propellant due to the introduction of nitro-explosive propellants such as Poudre B , in France, and later by Nobel's ballistite and, in Britain, by cordite .
a small amount of a more powerful secondary explosive, directly in contact with the primary, and called "base" or "output" explosive, able to carry out the detonation through the casing of the detonator to the main explosive device to activate it. Explosives commonly used as primary in detonators include lead azide, lead styphnate, tetryl, and ...