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ShOAB-0.5

Submunition  
Hardware available
Russian Federation
USSR

The ShOAB-0.5 (ШОАБ-0,5) is a small, Soviet-era-developed, Russian Federation, drag-stabilised, spin-armed, impact fuzed, high explosive fragmentation (HE-frag) anti-personnel (AP) submunition. The ShOAB-0.5 has a two-part, roughly spheroidal body, with a number of flutes (strakes) on its outer surface, which cause the submunition to spin-up when falling through the air. Internally the two aluminium alloy hemispherical parts of the body con...

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