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53-OF-843
The 53-OF-843 (53-ОФ-843) is a Russian steel-bodied high-explosive (HE) fragmentation mortar bomb. The 53-OF-843 is normally seen marked up as the OF-843 (ОФ-843), which is the short form version of its GAU/GRAU index code. The 'OF' in the designation is short for the Russian words Oskolocho-Fygasnaya (Осколочно-фугасная), literally fragmentation-high explosive. The 53-OF-843 was developed for the Russian Model 1938 (PM-38) 120 mm regimenta...
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