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M106 (South Korea 8" HE Projectile)

Projectile  
Korea, Republic of

The M106 is a South Korean 8 inch (8"), nominally 203 mm in diameter, nose-fuzed, steel-bodied, boat-tailed, high-explosive (HE) fragmentation (HE-frag) artillery projectile (shell). The South Korean M106 is copy of the US M106, which was originally developed around World War Two (WW2). The M106 may use US fuzes such as the M577 and M564, or South Korean fuzes such as HW594, KM577A1 and KM582A1. Production of the South Korean version of...

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