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The Syrian Army is using Russian made 240mm towed mortars, a design first seen during World War II as the M240. This is a four ton towed mortar that generally fired a 130kg (286 pound) high-explosive ...

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The new SPM version carries 36 rounds of ammunition, including short-range (1,200 meters) anti-tank shells and longer range (13.5 kilometers) high-explosive shells. There is also a 12.7mm machine-gun ...

Though a smoke-producing shell is not a traditional high explosive round intended to impact on enemy positions, it would still be a highly dangerous explosive if live. Other pictures shows several ...

It surpasses considerably ordinary artillery guns with calibers from 100mm. The Tyulpan’s high-explosive shells are capable of destroying fortified buildings and the enemy’s manpower and armor ...

Reports have emerged of Ukrainian tank crews receiving shells from as far away as India. These explosive ordnance items, ...

But a compound like RDX is vastly more difficult to set off. It’s considered a high explosive material, meaning it won’t detonate without a primary explosion occurring near it — initiated by ...

Due to a lack of sufficient support weapons, Ukrainians are using tank charges as a substitute to shell a given area with ...

A ‘mortar’ is a cannon that fires almost straight up into the sky, which means that its high-explosive shell comes back almost straight down. Thus, if your opposition is hunkered down in a ...