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53-F-853A

Mortar Bomb  
Russian Federation
USSR

The 53-F-853A (53-Ф-853А) is a Soviet-era-developed, Russian Federation, cast iron-bodied 160 mm high explosive fragmentation (HE-frag) mortar bomb. The 53-F-853A would be modified to produce the improved 53-F-853AU (53-Ф-853АУ) variant, with the two bombs primarily differing in the design of their stabiliser assemblies and their fuzing. Construction The 53-F-853A bomb body has a truncated ogival nose, a shorter roughly cylindrical middl...

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