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Type 63 (Smoke Mortar Bomb)
The Type 63 is a Chinese 60 mm, white phosphorous (WP) based, point detonating (PD) nose-fuzed, bursting smoke mortar bomb. The Type 63 smoke bomb was presumably developed for use with the Chinese Type 63 60 mm mortar, which is ultimately based on the Stokes-Brandt Model 1935 mortar, or the improved Type 63-1. The Type 63 smoke bomb is commonly referred to in the West as the Type 60-1 or Type 63-1 due to its markings on the bomb that denote...
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