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53-F-843
The 53-F-843 (53-Ф-843) is a Russian high-capacity two-part steel-bodied high-explosive (HE) fragmentation mortar bomb. The bomb is rarely encountered. The 53-F-843 is normally seen marked up as the F-843 (Ф-843), which is the short form version of its GAU/GRAU index code. The 'F' in the designation is short for the Russian word Fygasnaya (фугасная), literally high explosive. The 53-F-843 was developed for the Russian Model 1938 (PM-38) 120...
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