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FAB-500ShL
The FAB-500ShL (ФАБ-500ШЛ) is a Soviet-era developed, Russian Federation, air-delivered, parachute-retarded, proximity- and impact-fuzed, high-explosive fragmentation (HE-frag) aerial bomb intended for low-level (assault) delivery. Other than the nose sensor and fuzing system, the FAB-500ShL is essentially the same as the impact-fuzed FAB-500ShN (ФАБ-500ШН), which is covered in a separate entry. Fuzing The FAB-500ShL uses the AVU-581 (АВ...
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